Found 53 matches.
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PRESENTATION: The Transformative Process of Collaborating with Parents and Family Members: Engagement, Involvement & Partnership
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | Member Publications
“The Transformative Process of Collaborating with Parents and Family Members: Engagement, Involvement & Partnership,” is a new advocacy brief that establishes a baseline for understanding how advocates and professionals can collaborate with parents and family members in their local community, states and nation. While most stakeholders working with parents and family members coin the ultimate relationship as “engagement,” the New Jersey Parents Caucus recognizes engagement as a process, and collaboration as an ultimate goal. The following tools are available to help you create collaboration with parents and families.
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REPORT: The Transformative Process of Collaborating with Parents and Family Members: Engagement, Involvement & Partnership
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | Member Publications
“The Transformative Process of Collaborating with Parents and Family Members: Engagement, Involvement & Partnership,” is a new advocacy brief that establishes a baseline for understanding how advocates and professionals can collaborate with parents and family members in their local community, states and nation. While most stakeholders working with parents and family members coin the ultimate relationship as “engagement,” the New Jersey Parents Caucus recognizes engagement as a process, and collaboration as an ultimate goal. The following tools are available to help you create collaboration with parents and families.
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2018_01_16 Child Welfare Juvenile Justice Opposition to Parent Child Separation Plan
Tags: Federal | Detention | Family and Youth Involvement | Immigration | International and Human Rights | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Media
Urgent appeal to Sec. Nielsen, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, to halt plans to separate children from parents when they arrive at or are found near the U.S. border.
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Putting Justice in North Carolina’s Juvenile System
Tags: North Carolina | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Youth in the Adult System | Restorative Justice | Reports | Research | Member Publications
This report by the Youth Justice Project Southern Coalition for Social Justice shows the number and statistics of youths entering the adult court system at an early age. It mentions the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act, that, beginning in December 2019, will no longer automatically charge all 16- and 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal system. However, the report further explain the existence of problems in the juvenile justice system that should be improved to treat youths fairly without compromising public safety.
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WIOA Youth Funding Supplemental Letter to House Labor-H 12-11-17
Tags: Federal | Family and Youth Involvement | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Member Publications | Partner Publications
Letter to House Appropriations leaders to ensure the WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) Youth formula program funding is left intact in the coming supplemental appropriations bill and oppose any new transfer authorities. National Youth Employment Coalition.
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WIOA Youth Funding Supplemental Letter to Senate Labor-H 12-11-17
Tags: Federal | Family and Youth Involvement | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Member Publications | Partner Publications
Letter to Senate Appropriations leaders to ensure the WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) Youth formula program funding is left intact in the coming supplemental appropriations bill and oppose any new transfer authorities. National Youth Employment Coalition.
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DeVosSignOnLetter120617FINAL
Tags: Federal | Brain and Adolescent Development | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Family and Youth Involvement | Physical Health | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Member Publications | Partner Publications
Letter to Sec. DeVos expressing strong support for robust enforcement of the regulation implementing the IDEA’s disproportionality requirements and opposition to any effort to delay its implementation. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
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BULLIES IN BLUE: THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SCHOOL POLICING
Tags: Federal | Texas | Washington | Crime Data and Statistics | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Family and Youth Involvement | Gangs | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Reports | Research
This report explains the unfavorable result of school policing, especially in low-income Black and Latino communities with the evidence from some states. Police is often seen using force or violence against youth, such as arresting and handcuffing students, even for minor crimes or misbehaviors. In addition, more presence of police in school including their presence in a classroom has increased fear among them. All these facts help support why schooling policing should be reconsidered.
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FY18 LSC Support Letter FINAL
Tags: Federal | Family and Youth Involvement | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Fines and Fees | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Legislation | Member Publications | Partner Publications
Letter to Appropriations Committee leaders in support of continued investment in the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). ABA Center on Children and the Law.
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Children's Groups Letter to Hill_Do No Harm
Tags: Federal | Family and Youth Involvement | Physical Health | Public Opinion and Messaging | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Legislation | Member Publications | Partner Publications
Urges majority and minority leaders of House and Senate to keep the unique needs of children front and center and adopt a “do no harm” standard for children as they consider any changes to the nation’s health care system. Children’s Defense Fund.
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The governor has used his executive powers to help some New Yorkers who committed crimes in their youth
Tags: New York | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Youth in the Adult System | Advocacy | Media | Reports
Efforts in Justice Reform: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pardoned more than 100 New Yorkers who turned their lives around after criminal convictions at that young age.
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A stolen cellphone, then an odyssey through Maryland's juvenile justice system
Tags: Maryland | Aftercare/Reentry | Brain and Adolescent Development | Collateral Consequences | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Detention | Family and Youth Involvement | Institutional Conditions | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Prevention | Victims | Restorative Justice | Correctional Education | Media | Reports
A thirteen year old boy was with a group of boys who had stolen a cell phone. The counsellors and attorney argued that restorative action be administered as a best outcome. The Judge disagreed and ordered a 90 day term in a juvenile detention.
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Our Opinion: Maine should lead on closing youth prisons
Tags: National | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Public Opinion and Messaging | Advocacy | Reports
Troubled youth should be treated in community-based settings that stress accountability and a sense of belonging. Maine, with its relatively small number of youth prisoners and strong sense of community, can and should be a leader in this effort of decarceration.
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Improving Outcomes for Youth With Disabilities in Juvenile Corrections
Tags: Federal | National | Family and Youth Involvement | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Correctional Education | Web-Based Tools
This toolkit includes evidence- and research-based practices, tools, and resources that educators, families, facilities, and community agencies can use to better support and improve the long-term outcomes for youth with disabilities in juvenile correctional facilities.
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LESS CRIME FOR LESS MONEY
Tags: Massachusetts | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Reports | Partner Publications
Police, district attorneys, and court personnel offer a discretionary and disparate array of programs and practices, with no statutory mandate or other support, It is critical to assess whether the programs we pay for are offered fairly or are effective.
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Mothers at the Gate: How a Powerful Family Movement is Transforming the Juvenile Justice System
Tags: National | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Reports
This report reflects an initial effort to map a movement of family members — particularly mothers — that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself, and to distill the shared wisdom of its leaders. Mothers at the Gate, produced with the financial support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, looks inside this emerging movement to find first-hand accounts, strategies, and needs of family members in their individual and collective work to transform an unjust juvenile justice system.
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A Shared Sentence: The devastating toll of parental incarceration on kids, families and communities
Tags: National | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Reports
This report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores the impact of parental incarceration on youth, families, and communities.
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Support Not Punish: Participatory Action Research Report
Tags: New York | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Reports | Research
A team of Bronx youth who are actively engaged with community-led efforts to keep youth free from incarceration have just released the results of their 18-month inquiry into what their peers experience in the juvenile justice system. The team of researchers are Bronx youth, under the age of 24, who have either experienced the juvenile justice system personally, or have family members and close friends who have been locked up. The young people used a form of inquiry called Participatory Action Research (PAR), which mobilizes individuals who are directly impacted by a problem to study the issue, and to generate solutions using collective inquiry with their peers.
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A Family Guide to Pennsylvania's Juvenile Justice System
Tags: Pennsylvania | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Reports | Web-Based Tools
This guide was written by a team of family advocates and juvenile justice practitioners.They created this guide to help you understand Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system and be better prepared to work closely with juvenile justice staff to promote positive outcomes for your child.
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YTFG Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform - 2016
Tags: National | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Crossover and Dual Jurisdiction Youth | Deinstitutionalization | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Girls | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Youth in the Adult System | Partner Publications
The Youth Justice Work Group (YJWG) of the Youth Transition Funders Group (YTFG) envisions a youth justice system that fosters the healthy development and well-being of all children and youth by building upon their strengths, cultivating their relationships with caring adults, supporting their families and communities, and offering them age-appropriate opportunities for future success. We are committed to partnering with the broader community to promote restorative justice, safety, opportunity and positive outcomes for all young people. In order to achieve our vision, and in alignment with YTFG’s Youth Well-Being Framework, we recommend the following 10 Tenets for Youth Justice Reform.
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Navigating the New Jersey Juvenile Justice System: A Family Guide
Tags: New Jersey | Family and Youth Involvement | Web-Based Tools | Member Publications
A guide for families of incarcerated youth to navigating the New Jersey juvenile justice system. Created by the New Jersey Parents' Caucus (an NJJN member).
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Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children
Tags: National | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Reports
The goal of this report is to advance understanding and promote the rights of parents with disabilities and their children. The report provides a comprehensive review of the barriers and facilitators people with diverse disabilities—including intellectual and developmental, psychiatric, sensory, and physical disabilities—experience when exercising their fundamental right to create and maintain families, as well as persistent, systemic, and pervasive discrimination against parents with disabilities. The report analyzes how U.S. disability law and policy apply to parents with disabilities in the child welfare and family law systems, and the disparate treatment of parents with disabilities and their children. Examination of the impediments prospective parents with disabilities encounter when accessing assisted reproductive technologies or adopting provides further examples of the need for comprehensive protection of these rights.
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The Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice 2013 Recommendations to the President, Congress, and OJJDP Administrator
Tags: Federal | National | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Evidence-Based Practices | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Reports
The Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice makes policy recommendations on topics of evidence-based practices, youth engagement, youth justice and schools, and disproportionate minority contact, as well as strongly urging the president, congress, and OJJDP to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention act.
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Voices From the Field: Findings From the NGI Listening Sessions
Tags: National | Family and Youth Involvement | Girls | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Partner Publications
The National Girls Institute (NGI) reveals information from listening sessions, which relay how effective their strategies with girls at risk or involved with the justice system have been. NGI's goal is to have the girls comfortable and at ease when working with the staff.
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From Courts to Communities: The Right Response to Truancy, Running Away, and Other Status Offenses
Tags: National | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | Status Offenses | Reports
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice makes policy recommendations regarding truancy and other status offenses that emphasize family-supported and community-based solutions in place of court referrals.
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National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses
Tags: National | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | Status Offenses | Reports | Partner Publications
This publication from NJJN partner the Coalition for Juvenile Justice sets out principles and standards for responding to status offenses in the U.S.
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The Role of Family Engagement in Creating Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice Systems: NCTSN Trauma-Informed Approach Brief
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Reports
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a program of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Mental Health Services, released six online briefs in September, 2013. This brief, penned by Liane Rozzell, outlines why family involvement is a crucial element of trauma-informed care.
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OJJDP Family Listening Sessions - Executive Summary
Tags: National | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
This report summarizes the findings of four listening sessions with the families of system-involved youth held by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Campaign for Youth Justice (CFYJ).
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When Three's A Crowd: How Families Can Contribute to their Child's Defense
Tags: National | Family and Youth Involvement | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | NJJN Publications
NJJN summarizes the role of the defense attorney when the client is a youth and provides tips and resources for parents on how best to support their child and contribute to their child's case.
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The Impact of Family Visitation on Incarcerated Youth's Behavior and School Performance
Tags: National | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports | Research
This study by the Vera Institute examines the effect of family visitation on the behavior and school performance of incarcerated youth. The researchers found that family visitation was associated with improved behavior and school performance, highlighting the importance of visitation to incarcerated youth's rehabilitation and success. The researchers recommend that correctional facilities adjust their visitation policies to promote more frequent visitation with families to improve social and familial support and increase these positive outcomes.
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2013 Juvenile Justice Reform Legislation: House Bill 242, JustGeorgia Summary
Tags: Georgia | Family and Youth Involvement | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Youth in the Adult System | Court Decisions and Related Documents | Legislation | Member Publications
JustGeorgia provides a detailed summary of the changes to Georgia's juvenile code enacted through H.B. 242.
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Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach
Tags: Federal | National | Brain and Adolescent Development | Deinstitutionalization | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Status Offenses | Youth in the Adult System | Reports | Research
The National Research Council's report brief combines a summary of new research in adolescent developmental psychology with an evaluation of reigning policies in juvenile justice. Based on these materials, the NRC makes recommendations for juvenile justice policy reform.
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Family Comes First: A Workbook to Transform the Justice System by Partnering with Families
Tags: National | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports | Partner Publications
This report, released by the Campaign for Youth Justice, is the first comprehensive analysis of current family engagement and family partnership practices in juvenile justice systems across the country and provides practical tools and resources for juvenile justice system practitioners invested in undertaking a family-driven approach to juvenile justice.
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Raised on the Registry: The Irreparable Harm of Placing Children on Sex Offender Registries in the US
Tags: National | Aftercare/Reentry | Family and Youth Involvement | Sex Offender Registries | Reports | Research
This Human Rights Watch report challenges the view that registration laws and related restrictions are an appropriate response to sex offenses committed by children. The report shows that such measures amount to continuing punishment for youth who commit sex offenses and in fact have a neutral or even negative effect on public safety by overburdening law enforcement with monitoring large numbers of people, undifferentiated by their dangerousness.
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Your Guide to the Juvenile Justice System in Illinois
Tags: Illinois | Family and Youth Involvement | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Partner Publications
A know your rights pamphlet about the juvenile justice system targeting youth. Put together by the Children and Family Justice Center of Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern University's School of Law and the Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Action Network of the Models for Change Initiative of the MacArthur Foundation.
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Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice (Executive Summary)
Tags: Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Institutional Conditions | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Youth in the Adult System | Partner Publications
Executive summary of report from Justice for Families and DataCenter, based on more than 1,000 surveys and 24 focus groups with families of youth who have been in the justice system. The report shows the many ways justice systems have failed youth, families and communities and proposes solutions for transforming youth justice to help our youth succeed and keep our communities safe.
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Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice (full)
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | General System Reform | Institutional Conditions | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Youth in the Adult System | Partner Publications
Report from Justice for Families and DataCenter, based on more than 1,000 surveys and 24 focus groups with families of youth who have been in the justice system. The report shows the many ways justice systems have failed youth, families and communities and proposes solutions for transforming youth justice to help our youth succeed and keep our communities safe.
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Youth Experiences at Giddings State School Survey Findings
Tags: Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, an NJJN member, conducted a study of 115 youth at the Giddings State School, a youth prison, and found that youth benefit from contact with family and mentors.
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Safety, Fairness, Stability: Repositioning Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare to Engage Families and Communities
Tags: Crossover and Dual Jurisdiction Youth | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
In this paper, produced by Georgetown University's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, readers have the opportunity to learn the importance of family engagement to the juvenile's growth and behavior patterns and considers what changes may occur within the juvenile justice system if participants placed a greater value on the family structure.
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A Failing System Reminiscent of Tallulah, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
Tags: Louisiana | Family and Youth Involvement | Institutional Conditions | Reports | Member Publications
Report charging that the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice has not effectively implemented the Juvenile Justice Reform Act (Act 1225), and that its attempt to adopt the "Missouri Model" has not worked because it has done so in piecemeal fashion, rather than embracing model wholesale. The report outlines key areas in which the state of Louisiana has failed to follow through on its plan to implement the Missouri Model: "lack of real family involvement; lack of high caliber; staff involvement; lack of productive youth interaction, placement, and services; lack of therapeutic, safe and consistent settings; and lack of transparency." The report includes recommendations for reform.
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Colorado Requires Standards for Integrated System-of-Care Family Advocacy Programs, H.B. 1193
Tags: Colorado | Family and Youth Involvement | Institutional Conditions | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Legislation
The Colorado General Assembly declared an explicit need for the development of rules and standards for family advocacy mental health juvenile justice programs, as well as technical assistance and coordination for such programs. The legislation makes permanent a demonstration program for system-of-care family advocates and family systems navigators for youth in the juvenile justice system with mental health issues.
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Juvenile Justice 101 Toolkit
Tags: Washington | Family and Youth Involvement | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Partner Publications
Juvenile Justice 101 is an project of the MacArthur Foundations Models for Change initiative. The toolkit is an interactive guide for how to implement the program in another jurisdiction.
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An Advocate's Guide to Meaningful Family Partnerships: Tips from the Field, NJJN
Tags: California | Louisiana | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports | NJJN Publications
Offers strategies for forming and sustaining meaningful partnerships with family members. Case examples from California and Louisiana.
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Families in Power: Family Guide to Networking, Coalition Building, Organizing and Campaign Planning, Campaign for Youth Justice
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
Guide to how families of incarcerated youth can help impact changes in the juvenile justice system.
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School Discipline Policy Change and Family Engagement as a Path to Large-Scale School Reform Teleconference Audio Recording, Maisie Chin, Director/Co-Founder, CADRE (Community Asset Development Re-defining Education)
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Presentations | Teleconference
Presentation on CADRE's efforts to revise the Los Angeles Unified School District's discipline policy to incorporate PBS and basic human rights principles. To view resources associated with the presentation, visit the Trainings section of NJJN's Web site.
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Family Involvement in Pennsylvania's Juvenile Justice System
Tags: Pennsylvania | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
The report, with contributions from NJJN member Pennsylvania Models for Change Community Partnership, aims to identify and develop strategies and models that will support family involvement in the juvenile justice system in effective and measurable ways and that are rooted within balanced and restorative justice practice.
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Parents Bill of Rights, Texas Youth Commission
Tags: Texas | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
Bill of rights for parents of youth involved in the system.
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Understanding the Texas Youth Commission and the Parents' Bill of Rights: The TYC Family Handbook, Texas Youth Commission
Tags: Texas | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
Guidebook explaining the Parents' Bill of Rights and the resources related to dealing with the Texas Youth Commission.
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Family Meeting and Advocacy Day Summary, Voices for Ohio's Children
Tags: Ohio | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
Summary of advocacy day during which families talked with the Ohio Department of Youth Services leadership team about their concerns: lack of transportation; need for local advocacy for juvenile court issues; poor communication with personnel; too few and too limited educational opportunities; and medical care.
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Ohio's Family and Youth Guide: The Family Guide to the Juvenile Justice System in Ohio, Voices for Ohio's Children
Tags: Ohio | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
Guide reviewing juvenile court process, transfer to adult court, enhanced sentences, juvenile sex offenders, juvenile correctional facilities, and parole.
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Youth Voices in Juvenile Justice Reform, Ed Finkel, Youth Today
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | Media
Article chronicling how youth are getting involved in the fight for juvenile justice system reform around the country.
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Engaging Young People in Juvenile Justice Reform, National Collaboration for Youth and National Juvenile Justice Network
Tags: Family and Youth Involvement | Reports | NJJN Publications
Brief raising issues that can be considered when embarking on an effort to incorporate youth in juvenile justice reform efforts. It addresses the challenges involved in recruiting and retaining young people and highlights various community-based and governmental organizations that empower youth to advocate for, and provide significant input into, system reform.
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From a Parent's Perspective: A Handbook for Parents of Children Committed to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, Linda Smelstor, Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Tags: Massachusetts | Family and Youth Involvement | Reports
Handbook providing an overview of the information parents may need as they support their child during incarceration with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services.
