In Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 recognizing a gap in programming for youth with sexual behavior problems and the lack of a systematic and holistic approach to managing these cases, OJJDP and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking collaborated to fund this program. Since FY 2018, OJJDP has continued to fund the program.

OJJDP provides for the  training and technical assistance to improve the accuracy, accessibility, and strategic use of information about the nature, incidence, prevalence, prevention, treatment, and management of youth with problematic sexual behaviors.  Since FY 2010, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center’s National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth (NCSBY) has been continuously selected by OJJDP to serve as the training and technical assistance provider for the Supporting Effective Interventions for Youth with Problematic or Illegal Sexual Behavior Project Sites.

We at NCSBY partner with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program (OJJDP) to ensure the protection and welfare of American Youth.

We align ourselves with the OJJDP in efforts to continue three guiding priorities

• Treat Children as Children
• Serve Children at Home, With Their Families, In Their Communities
• Open Opportunities for System-Involved Youth

Vision

OJJDP envisions a nation where our children are free from crime and violence. If they come into contact with the justice system, the contact should be rare, fair, and beneficial to them.

Since 2010, OJJDP has funded more than 30 project sites to implement comprehensive, coordinated, community-based evidence-based practices for children and adolescents with problematic sexual behavior (PSB), child victims, and caregivers.

OJJDP has selected NCSBY to provide comprehensive training and technical assistance (T/TA), which includes intensive clinical training in evidence-based practice for youth with PSB. We provide resources to identify and overcome barriers, adapt efforts to fit communities’ resources and needs, facilitate community collaboration, dispel myths, and enhance family engagement.

Building on that success, we provide training and technical assistance to:

• Establish community-based management and evidence-based practice for youth with PSB, victims, and families; and
• Improve the community’s coordination of services through multidisciplinary teams.

We work with project site awardees to surmount multiple agency, system, and policy-level barriers to establish effective procedures, policies, and programs that are fair and just. These changes support identification, referral, access, engagement, and sustainability of evidence-based practices.

Through OJJDP funding, toolkits, tip sheets, and other resources are continuously being developed and disseminated through OJJDP portals, NCSBY.org and through partners. Caregiver and Youth Partnership Boards.

NCSBY Resources Include:

• The Caregiver's Survival Guide
• Early Identification of Youth with Problematic Sexual Behavior: A Qualitative Study
• A Message to Our Caregivers Tip Sheet

Resources developed by OJJDP include

• Model Programs Guide: Offending by Juveniles > Sex Offenses
• In Focus Fact Sheet: Sexual Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
• Performance Measures for OJJDP Grantees: Adolescent Sex Offenders and Children with Sexual Behavior Problems Program

For more resources, visit OJJDP Resources

More information about the efforts of the OJJDP can be found here: https://www.ojp.gov