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On April 10–13, 2010, in Washington, DC, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice will hold its Annual National Conference. The conference theme is "Ensuring School Engagement and Success for Youth at Risk."
The conference will be addressed by Jeff Slowikowski, Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and Melodee Hanes, Acting Deputy Administrator for Policy, OJJDP.
For 25 years, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice has served as a nationwide association of state advisory groups on juvenile justice. The annual meeting of the Coalition’s Council of State Advisory Groups will take place in conjunction with the conference.
Resources:
To access the conference agenda and register online, visit the conference's Web page at www.juvjustice.org/conference_8.html.

The WV SAC, housed within the Division of Criminal Justice Services, recently launched its newly designed website.  New to the site are interactive data features allowing users to obtain general crime information or query selected data sources for more detailed statistics.  A county level map provides users with state and county level general crime statistics.  In addition, the SAC has developed an interactive data analysis tool, called Project IDA, which allows users to query specific law enforcement and corrections data sources.  Project IDA was designed to be a user-friendly interface for anyone to quickly obtain statistics specific to their needs.  At present, users can obtain detailed statistics by querying offense, victim, and arrest segments from WV’s Incident-Based Reporting System (WVIBRS).  Phase II of this project is underway and will make adult institutional corrections statistics available via DOC’s Inmate Management Information System (IMIS) and information on offenders serving time in WV’s community-based corrections programs via the Community Corrections Information System (CCIS) developed by the SAC in 2007, which received the JRSA’s Technical Innovation Recognition award in 2008. As always, all SAC publications continue to be available for download on the newly developed website.
 
In conjunction with the launch of the new website, the SAC has also joined the world of social networking to provide users with the most up-to-date crime and justice-related news, statistics, events, as well as training and funding sources.  The SAC has newly developed Facebook and Twitter pages by which users can link to via the SAC’s website or visa versa.  Through the use of email notifications, the SAC receives timely information from various federal and state agencies to pass along to Facebook fans and Twitter followers.  The SAC is also making use of local newspaper and other media outlets, information from nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and other government agencies to identify and post crime and justice-related information and resources of interest to WV citizens and system stakeholders.  This new networking will provide criminal justice professionals, professors and students, advocates, and others interested or involved in the criminal justice system with quick and reliable resources at their fingertips.
 
Take a moment to view WV’s SAC newly developed website at: http://www.dcjs.wv.gov/SAC.  Follow the “interactive data” link to view the statewide county-by-county map of statistics or build your own queries based on WVIBRS data using the interactive data analysis tool under “Project IDA.”  You can also join the SAC’s Facebook fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Virginia-Statistical-Analysis-Center/285402078755, as well as follow them on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wvcjsac.