A new report, Implementing Juvenile Justice Reform – the Federal Role, released by the National Research Council identifies and prioritizes strategies and policies to effectively facilitate reform of the juvenile justice system and presents an implementation plan for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). John Tuell, Executive Director of the RFK National Resource Center, served on The Committee on a Prioritized Plan to Implement a Developmental Approach in Juvenile Justice Reform, an ad-hoc committee tasked to inform and develop the prioritized plan identified in the report. Based on the 2013 report Reforming Juvenile Justice, this report is designed to provide specific guidance to OJJDP regarding the steps that it should take, both internally and externally, to facilitate juvenile justice reform grounded in knowledge about adolescent development and effective interventions.