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NCJRS Website Celebrates Ten Years With Redesign and New URL

The new website of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) provides visitors with powerful new tools to access justice information. New features include a more comprehensive sitewide search function, expanded topical resources, an express shopping cart system, and a database of questions and answers. NCJRS also has a new URL, www.ncjrs.gov.

Building on Success: Providing Today's Youth With Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow

The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will sponsor Building on Success: Providing Today's Youth With Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow. The conference, which will be held in Washington , DC , January 11-13, 2006, will include preconference training sessions, workshops, and a plenary session. Sessions and workshops will address community planning, youth gangs, monitoring for compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002, family strengthening, trends in victimization, and more. The agenda will also allow plenty of time for networking and viewing exhibits. For more information, visit www.juvenilecouncil.gov.

BJA Hosts a Series of Local Conferences: Demonstrating the Value of America 's Justice Initiatives

The Bureau of Justice Assistance is planning regional conferences for local, state, national, tribal, and federal criminal justice policymakers and practitioners in your area to explore critical issues in the law enforcement and criminal justice arenas.

The conference, Demonstrating the Value of America's Justice Initiatives will do the following:

• Focus on demonstrating and communicating the value of criminal justice initiatives to communities and decision makers
• Examine promising practices and topics of concern
• Feature workshops on Methamphetamine enforcement and treatment, the success of drug task forces, corrections alternatives, and sex offender management, among others
• Provide information and training that helps newly appointed State Administering Agency (SAA) administrators effectively manage federal resources
• Feature focus group discussion on updating the Program Development and Implementation Training (PDIT)
• Provide opportunities to meet with the BJA staff responsible for program oversight

The conferences will also offer participants the unique opportunity to meet directly with BJA program managers, as well as with BJA's Director Domingo Herraiz. Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, as well as court, corrections, and treatment professionals, won't want to miss this free-of-charge, two-day event on the value of America 's justice initiatives.

For more details or to register for this valuable training, visit www.ncja.org/bjaregionalmeeting.html.