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Article: National Association of Juvenile Correctional Agencies celebrates 100 years.(Chapter/Affiliate Spotlight)
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- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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The National Association of Juvenile Correctional Agencies is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Although the organization did not officially meet until 1904, the early members had their conceptual meeting at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections in Atlanta in May 1903. During its first meeting on June 13, 1904, in Portland, Maine, the members chose as the organization's first name, The National Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant, Dependent and Delinquent Children.
The following chronology lists major events in the life of the association, taken from its former president Jack C. Pulliam's publication Through the Years.
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