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The Juvenile Law Reader is published by the Juvenile Rights Project, Inc., to provide Oregon Juvenile Court practitioners with important news, practice tips, developing case law, resources and updates on law and policy changes.

The Oregon Advocacy Project and Juvenile Rights Project, Inc. are pleased to announce the Children's Mental Health Access Project.

The May 2006, Juvenile Law Task Force's report on revision of the Principles and Standards for Counsel in Criminal, Delinquency and Dependency Cases, as approved by the Board of Bar Governors. Juvenile Law Task Force Report.

The Citizen Review Boards have developed a new statewide CRB Case Notes Sheet to guide the board members regarding areas of inquiry.

A Resource Guideline for Parents Incarcerated in Oregon.

Transition Guide to Teens Aging Out of Foster Care in Oregon: - A Guide to Transition Planning for Caseworkers, Judges and Advocates is intended to: (1) increase awareness of the challenges faced by foster youth transitioning out of care; (2) increase awareness of the federal and state law pertaining to transition planning; and (3) provide the tools necessary to make a youth’s transition out of care more successful.

A Teen's Legal Guide to Foster Care In Oregon (Revised) is intended to answer some of the questions foster youth might have about legal rights, foster care, and about going to court. This Guide is copyright free.

A Teen's Survival Guide to Leaving Foster Care In Oregon contains important information for teens who are about to leave Foster Care. Topics includes: Your Rights; Staying Healthy; What does it mean to be 18?; Crimes & Punishment; Moving Out; Making a Difference; Getting an Education; Getting Around; Going to Work; Public Assistance; and Money Matters. This Guide is copyright free.

Although there has been increasing awareness of child abuse, there has been little attention to the plight of teenagers who are the victims of familial violence and neglect. Victimized adolescents have long fallen between the cracks in Oregon's child service agencies.

PRESENTED FOR YOUR COMMENTS
Promoting Community Protection of Adolescents: Part 1-Adolsecent Maltreatment
Promoting Community Protection of Adolescents: Part 2-Oregon
By Julie H. McFarlane, Supervising Attorney & Amy Miller, Law Clerk.
Please send all comments to AmyM@jrplaw.org.
This project is supported by a grant from the Children’s Justice Act. The Children's Justice Act provides grants to States to improve the investigation, prosecution and judicial handling of cases of child abuse and neglect, particularly child sexual abuse and exploitation, in a manner that limits additional trauma to the child victim. This also includes the handling of child fatality cases in which child abuse or neglect is suspected and some cases of children with disabilities and serious health problems who also are victims of abuse and neglect.

Juvenile Rights Project, Inc. received juvenile violence prevention grants from the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, administered by its Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee, in 2001-2002, 2003 and 2004.

Eliminating the Achievement gap: Reducing
minority overrepresentation in school discipline

This project is supported by a Formula Grant Awarded by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, to the State of Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.

The opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Justice.

For Teen self-help information, follow this link to the Multnomah County Bar Association’s handbook, Youth Faces the Law.
(This link is no longer active because the publication is currently being revised. JRP will update as soon as new publication becomes available).

Emancipation in Multnomah County, Oregon is intended to answer some of the questions concerning Emancipation in Oregon.

Getting Your Record Expunged is intended to answer some questions about getting your record expunged, along with several documents provided by Multnomah County as follows:

Settlement Agreement on behalf of children in foster care throughout the state. This settlement agreement with the Oregon Department of Human Services continues to be in force through the 2003-05 biennium.

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