U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, Innovation - Partnerships – Safer Neighborhoods Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Serving Children, Families and Communities OJJDP Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders

Search For Strategies

The OJJDP DSO Best Practices Database is designed to assist States and localities in reducing and/or eliminating the detention and incarceration of status offenders. The database is an easy-to-use tool that offers strategies addressing a range of program types, including direct services and system change. Each program profile addresses the following topics: program or practice description, evaluation design, research findings, and references. Each program provides a contact for more information.

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For an alphabetical listing of all the DSO strategies in the database, click on “Browse all Strategies.”

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Click Here for an Alphabetical Listing of All Programs.


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OJJDP Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders Best Practices Database
The OJJDP Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders Best Practices Database  was created and developed by Development Services Group
under Cooperative Agreement #2008-JF-FX-0072.