DOCUMENT RESUME ED 352 578 CG 024 683 TITLE Hearings on the Reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (Downey, CA, March 16, 1992 and Grand Island, NE, March 30, 1992). INSTITUTION Congress of the U.S., Washington, D.C. House Committee on Education and Labor. REPORT NO ISBN-0-16-039688-3 PUB DATE Mar 92 NOTE 170p.; Serial No. 102-125. AVAILABLE FROMU.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402-9328. PUB TYPE Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials (090) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescents; Delinquency Prevention; *Federal Legislation; Females; Hearings; *Juvenile Justice IDENTIFIERS Congress 102nd; *Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act 1974; Reauthorization Legislation ABSTRACT Text of a hearing on the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 regarding the provision of services to girls within the juvenile justice system is presented in this document. Opening statements are presented by Committee Chair Representative Matthew G. Martinez and Representative Bill Barrett. Testimony and/or prepared statements and materials are included from these persons: (1) Vicki Burke, Director and Founder, Pace Center for Girls, Jacksonville, Florida; (2) Libby Deschenes, Rand Corporation, Los Angeles, California; (3) Talaya Ford, participant, Pace Center for Girls, Jacksonville, Florida; (4) Jean Lovell, Executive Director, Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement, Lincoln, Nebraska;(5) Susan Rotenburg, National Coalition for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System, Seattle, Washington; (6) Rita Redaelli, Executive Director, Girls, Inc., Newport Mesa, California;(7) Carolyn Stitt, Director, Foster Care Review Board, Lincoln, Nebraska; (8) Ruth Vance, Program Director, Panhandle Youth Support Services, Panhandle Community Services, Gering, Nebraska; (9) Val Peter, Director, Boys Town; (10) Peggy Adair, Voices for Children, Omaha, Nebraska; (11) Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii; and (12) Susan Morris, Chair, and Farrell Lines, Chair Elect, The National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups. 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This document has been reproduced as received from the person Or Organization originating iL 0 Minor changes have been made 10 improve I reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this docu. meet do not necessarily represent official OE RI position or potty U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 50-786 WASHINGTON : 1992 For rale I)) ihe U.S. emm4.1)1 pruning Of lice Superintendent of Document,. Congressional Sale, Of lice. Wa,llington. DC 211402 ISBN 0-16-039688-3 (;) 3 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR WILLIAM D.FORD, Michigan, Chairman JOSEPH M. GAYDOS, Pennsylvania WILLIAM F. GOODLING, Pennsylvania WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri E. THOMAS COLEMAN, Missouri GEORGE MILLER, California THOMAS E. PETRI, Wisconsin AUSTIN J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania MARGE ROUKEMA, New Jersey DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan STEVE GUNDERSON, Wisconsin PAT WILLIAMS, Montana RICHARD K. ARMEY, Texas MATTHEW G. MARTINEZ, California HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois MAJOR R. OWENS, New York PAUL B. HENRY, Michigan CHARLES A. HAYES, Illinois CASS BALLENGER, North Carolina CARL C. PERKINS, Kentucky SUSAN MOLINARI, New York THOMAS C. SAWYER, Ohio BILL BARRE7T, Nebraska DONALD M. PAYNE, New Jersey JOHN A. BOEHNER, Ohio NITA M. LOWEY, New York SCOTT L. KLUG, Wisconsin JOLENE UNSOELD, Washington MICKEY EDWARDS, Oklahoma CRAIG A. WASHINGTON. Texas RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM, California JOSE E. SERRANO, New York PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Jersey WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON, Louisiana JOHN F. REED, Rhode Island TIM ROEMER, Indiana JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts ED PASTOR, Arizona RON DE LUGO, Virgin Islands PkramiA F. RISSLER, Staff Director JAY EAGEN, Minority Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES MATTHEW 0. MARTINEZ, California, Chairman DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois NITA M. LOWEY, New York E. THOMAS COLEMAN, Missouri RON DE LUGO. Virgin Islands BILL BARRETT, Nebraska WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan (Ex Officio) CONTENTS Page Hearings held in: Downey, CA, March 16, 1992 1 Grand Island, NE, March 30, 1992 59 Statement of: Burke, Vicki, Director and Founder, Pace Center for Girls, Jacksonville, FL 39 Deschenes, Libby, Rand Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 4 Ford, Talaya, Participant, Pace Center for Girls, Jacksonville, FL 36 Lovell, Jean, Executive Director, Nebraska Commission on Law Enforce- ment, Lincoln, NE; and Susan Rotenburg, National Coalition for the Mentally Ill in the C .minal Justice System, Seattle, WA 134 Redaelli, Rita, Executive Director, Girls, Inc. Newport Mesa, CA 13 Stitt, Carolyn, Director, Foster Care Review Board 109 Unidentified Participant, Children of the Night, Los Angeles, CA 34 Vance, Ruth, Program Director, Panhandle Youth Support Services, Pan- handle Community Services; Father Val Peter, Director, Boys Town; and Peggy Adair, Voices for Children 64 Prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials, et cetera: Adair, Peggy, Voices for Children, prepared statement of 83 Burke, Vicki, Director and Founder, Pace Center for Girls, Jacksonville, FL, prepared statement of 43 Chesney-Lind, Dr. Meda, University of Hawaii, prepared statement of 8 Ford, Talaya, Participant, Paco) Center for Girls, Jacksonville, FL, pre- pared statement of 38 Lovell, Jean, Executive Director, Nebraska Commission on Law Enforce- ment, Lincoln, NE, prepared statement of 137 Martinez, Hon. Matthew G., a Representative in Congress from the State of California, prepared statement of 61 Morris, Susai, Chair, and Farrell Lines, Chair Elect, The National Coali- tion of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups, prepared statement of 57 Peter, Father Val, Director, Boys Town, prepared statement of 74 Redaelli, Rita, Executive Director, Girls, Inc. Newport Mesa, CA, pre- pared statement of 18 Rotenburg, Susan, Nz-zional Coalition for the Mentally III in the Criminal Justice System, Seattle, WA, prepared statement of 154 Stitt, Carolyn, Director, Foster Care Review Board, prepared statem ant of 115 Vance, Ruth, Program Director, Panhandle Youth Support Services, Pan- handle Community Services, prepared statement of 66 r HEARING ON THE REAUTHORIZATION OFTHE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PRE- VENTION ACT OF 1974: PROVISION OF SERV- ICES TO GIRLS WITHIN THE JUVENILEJUS- TICE SYSTEM MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITr8E ON HUMAN RESOURCES, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Downey, CA. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:04 a.m., atthe Board Room, Los Angeles County Office of Education,Imperial Highway, Downey, California, Hon. Matthew G. Martinez,Chair- man, presiding. Members present: Representatives Martinez and Barrett. Staff present: Roger McClellan, co-staff director; TerryDeshler, legislative assistant; Jennifer Amstutz, staff assistant; andLynn Selmser, minority professional staff member. Chairman MARTINEZ. Good morning and welcome. We arede- lighted to be here this morning to meet with people who are con- cerned about the issues that we are concerned about. I extend my personal gratitude to those of you whohave joined us as observers and to those of you whohave joined us as wit- nesses. We express our sincere gratitudefor your taking the time to do that. We are here today for one of a series of hearings onthe Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Many of youknow it is scheduled to expire this year, and we are in the processof re- authorizing it. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act,known in short as JJDPA, authorizes a broad range of activities toprevent and treat the delinquent behavior of at-risk youth. And as wehave traveled into many places to hold hearings so far, wefind that the situation as it exists today is no longer exactly that asit was in 1974, but this highly successful program to this pointhas been re- sponsible, in my estimation, for a significant drop in thenumber of youths who are inappropriately held in detention andhas reduced the number of juveniles in adult jails and lockups, which was one of the initial intents of the law. The Act has aided in developing innovative and highlyeffective programs, such as family preservation servicesand private/public partnerships, which aid in the prevention of juveniledelinquency. (1) 2 Youths have been redirected from delinquent behavior anddeten- tion centers into programs that provide specializedservices in family- or community-based programs. In today's hearing we are going to address female