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
DMC Conference - SAVE THE DATES - December 9-11, 2009
Link
to 2009 Conference Website
Link to
article from last year's conference (see
Des
Moines Youth Discuss Ways to Stay Connected to African American
Culture in E-update from Jim
Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative)
2009
Coalition for Juvenile Justice DMC Recommendations Letter to Attorney
General Holder
2009
CJJ Letter Congratulating Laurie Robinson on Assistant Attorney
General Office of Justice Programs/U.S. Dept of Justice
2009 Oregon
Governor's Summit presentation
Downloadable DMC Resource Center Brochure [click here].
Depts
of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and related agencies propriations
Federal Funding for 2010 (HR 2847) Committee on Appropriations
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2009
Governor's Summit on Eliminating Disproportionate Minority Contact
in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems - Portland,
OR November 16
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Richardson presentation
on CW JJ linkages, Natl DMC Conference, Austin, TX Oct 26-29, 2009
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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
TRANSCRIPT
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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
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)
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]
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