Kentucky: Department of Juvenile Justice

To plan for effective delinquency prevention and early intervention, the family, school and community as a whole must be involved in addressing the problems.

DJJ's key principles for preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency are:

To strengthen families
To support core social institutions
To promote prevention strategies and programs
To intervene immediately and effectively when delinquent behavior occurs
To identify and control the small percentages of serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders

Kentucky's Delinquency Prevention and Community Partnership Initiative began in 1998 at such time the General Assembly authorized the department to establish local juvenile delinquency prevention councils for the purpose of promoting delinquency prevention and collaboration of community efforts.