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The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Council) will meet next on Friday, September 12, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC. The agenda will include presentations on HHS research on boys.

On July 18, the Federal Partnerships work team convened a forum on comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs), also known as community change initiatives. The forum brought together Federal staff, practitioners, researchers, and site representatives to review preliminary guidelines designed to help funding agencies more effectively support CCIs. Guidelines addressing funding, technical assistance, evaluation, and cross-agency partnerships were reviewed. A draft of the guidelines and the structure of the Web-based toolkit through which the guidelines will be promulgated also will be discussed at the September Council meeting.

For additional information, including summaries and information on future and past meetings, please go to the Council Web site.

The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is an independent body within the executive branch of the Federal Government. The Council's primary functions are to coordinate Federal juvenile delinquency prevention programs, Federal programs and activities that detain or care for unaccompanied juveniles, and Federal programs relating to missing and exploited children.

The Council is chaired by the Attorney General and includes the Administrator of OJJDP (vice chairperson); the Secretaries of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development; the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service. As many as nine expert practitioners appointed by the President, the Senate Majority Leader, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives also serve as Council members.