How to Get Involved
- Sign on to the Statement of Principles. Send the name of your organization and a contact name to info@juvjustice.org.
- Stay Connected! To receive regular updates and action alerts, send your name and organizational affiliation to info@act4jj.org.
- Take Action!
- Download the Take Action Toolkit and share with your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues—encourage them to take action too!
- Download “What Your National Organization Can Do” and organize your colleagues, members and constituents!
- Express Yourself!
- Call, fax or e-mail your Congressional representatives and tell them how important the JJDPA is to you.
- Send a Postcard! Download, print and mail this ready-made postcard about reauthorization to your Congressional representatives.
- View the Statement of Principles Power Point, presented by Liz Ryan, Executive Director of the Campaign 4 Youth Justice, at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice’s Summit on JJDPA Reauthorization, June 11, 2007.
The reauthorization of the JJDPA will be handled by the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee to the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Committees of Jurisdiction for the JJDPA.
It is not too early to begin to educate yourselves and members of Congress about the value of the federal JJDPA and the need to ensure a strong and proactive bipartisan reauthorization to keep juvenile delinquency rates at the current historically low rates and to effectively assist families with children who are in conflict with the law.