National Tribal Youth Conference
Virtual: March 29 – April, 2021
Virtual: March 29 – April, 2021
Virtual: March 29 – April, 2021
FREE event!
The 2021 OJJDP Virtual Tribal Youth National Conference is to offer a wide range of prevention, intervention, and treatment resources and tools that are culturally-relevant, as well as evidence and practice based, in an effort to support and enhance tribal efforts to prevent and reduce juvenile delinquency by creating, expanding, and strengthening tribally-driven approaches.
March 29 – April 2, 2021: Virtual format
2021 THEME: Shaping Brighter Futures with American Indian, Alaska Native Youth and Tribal Communities – Strengthening Resilience, Promoting Healing, Restoring Culture.
Resources for tribes: VIDEOS
December 3-4, 2018: Palm Springs, CA: The National Tribal Youth Conference
The event was held on the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, California. The meeting is a national gathering of OJJDP Tribal youth program and Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court grantees and other intervention, prevention and court-based programs serving Tribal Youth. This conference is coordinated by the Indian Country Child Trauma Center through a cooperative agreement with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
This was a multi-track event which gave participants the opportunity to engage with Nationally recognized experts in the fields of Tribal juvenile justice, connect with other court-based programming, delinquency prevention, intervention and community based efforts, and learn about strategies to support and promote safety in Tribal communities.
Resources for tribes:
The Resource Basket
This is a RurAL CAP affiliated program.