The DMC Resource Center serves statewide and community efforts to reduce disproportionality and over-represenation of minority youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare system by, assisting with evaluation, analysis of data and providing technical assistance on issues including health and education-related disparities. The DMC Resource Center is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Human Services, Iowa Department of Human Rights, Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning and the University of Iowa School of Social Work.
2009 Coalition for Juvenile Justice DMC Recommendations Letter to Attorney General Holder
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IPTV coverage of disproportionality in Iowa's juvenile justice, child welfare and educational systems:
link to Iowa Journal Clip of David Goodson and Brad Richardson with host Todd Mundt
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PAST DMC CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~nrcfcp/dmcrc/dmc_conferences.shtml
Executive Order #5 signed by Gov. Culver Oct. 30th, 2007 - Exec. Order #5.
The Governor's Task Force Report was completed and presented May 21, 2009: http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/cjjp/dmc/index.html
Downloadable DMC Resource Center brochure [click
here].
Facts and Figures About DMC in Iowa
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DMC TA Manual, 3rd edition, September 6, 2006: http://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/dmc_ta_manual/index.html .
Core Requirement of JJDP Act (2002 Reauthorization)
DMC Resource Guide (published by CJJ)
A Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Chronology: 1988 to Date
by Heidi Hsia, OJJDP
How are Relative Rates Calculated? Method for Measuring Disproportionate Minority Contact (.ppt)
Relative Rate Indices for Measuring
DMC in Iowa and Targeted Counties
- Iowa
CJJP 2003 Three-Year Comprehensive Plan
- Connecting Iowa's Disproportionate Minority Confinement Efforts to the Iowa's Justice Data Warehouse June 2002
Iowa Department of Human Services Minority Youth and Families Initiative (MYFI): Over-representation of Minority Children in Child Welfare [read more - click for link to MYFI)
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
is located at: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/dmc/
DMC-Reduction Best Practices Database
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