About the GJJAC
Mission: The mission of the GJJAC is to promote partnerships and innovations that improve outcomes for juvenile offenders and their victims, to build family and community capacity to prevent delinquency, and to provide analysis and expertise to state and local policymakers. Three of the four grant programs administered by the GJJAC directly address juvenile delinquency prevention.
The Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (GJJAC) was established in 1982, by Executive Order, in response to the federal Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of 1974, as amended (reauthorized in 2002). The Act established a block grant program (Title II Formula Grant) to distribute funds to the states, based on their juvenile population under age 18, and requires states to establish State Advisory Groups to administer the program (in Washington, this is the GJJAC). The JJDP Act established a single federal agency to address juvenile delinquency, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), in the U.S. Department of Justice.
In order to be eligible to receive JJDP Act Title II funds, and Title V (Community Prevention) grant funds, states are required to commit to achieve and maintain compliance with the four core requirements of the federal JJDP Act, as follows:
The funding sources for the July 1, 2007, – June 30, 2008, contract period are:
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