Congratulations to the OJJDP Leadership Institute class of 2010 graduating at this year’s National Leadership Conference in Orlando Florida on August 11, 2011.  Officer Amy Mogelberg, Inspector Jack Radin and Caroline Newkirk, all graduates, will be speaking about some of their projects and accomplishments during the Featured Dialogue "Agents for Change" on August 10th, 2011.

The 2011 Leadership Institute is currently underway.  Sponsored by OJJDP and offered by the Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center at PIRE. Leadership Institute Candidate Teams were chosen through a competitive process based on their demonstration of readiness and vision to develop comprehensive community based strategies that combine enforcement, development of Under 21 Law supportive policies and practices, community environmental prevention and media strategies for reducing youth risk behaviors involving alcohol. The current class members come from New Hampshire, Idaho, New York, Illinois and Wisconsin.

The Leadership Institute promotes a model of collaborative leadership and focuses on assisting law enforcement and community leaders with strategic assessment, problem definition, goal setting and action planning that combine evidence-based environmental and enforcement strategies.  It also emphasizes the development of leadership process skills, communication skills and innovative thinking paradigms needed for leaders to empower broad-based strategic community engagement. Strong leadership capacity is needed to address the challenges of engaging youth, parents and other adults in supporting the underage drinking laws, sustain a communication infrastructure between law enforcement and prevention initiatives and address the needs that communities have for creating the healthy and safe environments  required for optimal youth development. The Institute is a self-paced program of in-person and on-line trainings, guided implementation in the field, conference participation and presentations, and formative evaluation. It is expected that individuals might complete the program in 10 to 18 months depending on their projects an availability for training opportunities.

• Application of Interest for Leadership Institute