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We urge you to contact your Members of Congress today and urge them to reauthorize and strengthen the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), and to support successful prevention initiatives, early intervention programs, rehabilitative strategies, gender specific services for prevention and intervention, alternatives to incarceration, and other similar approaches.

These initiatives need to be at the forefront of the juvenile justice policy agenda in the 110^th Congress. The new Congress needs to take a fresh approach that emphasizes more positive and strength-based strategies.

Overall juvenile justice funding has been slashed by more than 40% in the last four years. Significant increases are necessary to better meet the service and program needs of vulnerable youth.