Found 33 matches.
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How to Use Mapping Transformative Schools: Tip Sheet
Tags: General System Reform | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Restorative Justice | Advocacy | NJJN Publications
Tips for using NJJN's Policy Platform Mapping Transformative Schools: From Punishment to Promise. Includes communications messaging guide.
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Mapping Transformative Schools: From Punishment to Promise
Tags: General System Reform | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Restorative Justice | Advocacy | NJJN Publications
Mapping Transformative Schools: From Punishment to Promise. In this latest policy platform from NJJN, we outline the importance of transforming schools into cultures of opportunity and away from cultures of surveillance and punishment.
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The Positive School Discipline Institute: Envisioning a Different Way Forward
Tags: Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Presentations
Presentation by JauNae Hanger, JD, President and Executive Director of the The Children’s Policy and Law Initiative of Indiana. Presented during a webinar hosted by NJJN: Ending Punitive School Discipline and Pivoting to Positive Initiatives, March 15, 2022.
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Infographic-ReducingYouthArrests_January2020
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | NJJN Publications
NJJN recommends that localities prioritize the development and adequate resourcing of arrest prevention and pre-arrest diversion policies to reduce the overall number of youth—as well as the overrepresentation of youth of color, youth with disabilities, and LGBTQ/gender nonconforming youth—from entering the justice system.
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PNG Infographic-ReducingYouthArrests_January2020
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | NJJN Publications
NJJN recommends that localities prioritize the development and adequate resourcing of arrest prevention and pre-arrest diversion policies to reduce the overall number of youth—as well as the overrepresentation of youth of color, youth with disabilities, and LGBTQ/gender nonconforming youth—from entering the justice system.
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Reducing Youth Arrests: Prevention and Pre-Arrest Diversion January 2020
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | NJJN Publications
NJJN recommends that localities prioritize the development and adequate resourcing of arrest prevention and pre-arrest diversion policies to reduce the overall number of youth - as well as the overrepresentation of youth of color, youth with disabilities, and LGBTQ/gender nonconforming youth - from entering the justice system.
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LGBTQI Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings: Closing the Gap between Recommended Practice and Reality
Tags: Federal | New York | Collateral Consequences | Crime Data and Statistics | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | LGBTQ Youth | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Physical Health | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Evidence-Based Practices | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Court Decisions and Related Documents | Legislation | Presentations | Reports | Research | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
This presentation from NJJN Forum 2018 was developed by Currey Cook, Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project Director at Lambda Legal, and provides information on how LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented in the justice system and legal protections granted to members of the LGBTQ community.
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Improving Outcomes for Justice-Involved Youth Through Structured Decision-Making and Diversion
Tags: Federal | Virginia | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Deinstitutionalization | General System Reform | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Risk Assessment and Screening | Restorative Justice | Evidence-Based Practices | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Reports | Research | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
This issue brief by the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University reviews research on the structured decision-making process and diversion, including the use of risk and needs assessment tools and dispositional matrices. It also has a focus on how these tools can improve the effectiveness of juvenile diversion programming. Moving from research to practice, this brief further highlights some of the recent reform efforts in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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White Paper : Youth Justice in Maine : Imagine a New Future Summit
Tags: Maine | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | General System Reform | Institutional Conditions | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports
Maine's juvenile justice system should shift away from reliance on large facilities like Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland towards a continuum of care utilizing community-based in-home services and evidence-based out-of-home services for youth, according to a new white paper from the Justice Policy Program at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service and the Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law at the University of Maine School of Law.
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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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ADDRESSING THE INTERSECTIONS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT AND YOUTH HOMELESSNESS: PRINCIPLES FOR CHANGE
Tags: National | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Detention | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Physical Health | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | Risk Assessment and Screening | Evidence-Based Practices | Reports | Research | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
Coalition for Juvenile Justice reports ways to ensure young people do not experience homelessness as a result of involvement with the juvenile justice system, and likewise do not become involved with the justice system because of a lack of housing.
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Charging Youth As Adults Is Ineffective, Bias-Fraught & Harmful
Tags: California | Brain and Adolescent Development | Collateral Consequences | Crime Data and Statistics | Detention | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | General System Reform | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Risk Assessment and Screening | Youth in the Adult System | Victims | Evidence-Based Practices | Legislation | Reports | Research
Prop. 57 passed this past November, one section took away from prosecutors the power to cause a young person to be tried as an adult out, and gave the power back to judges. The report includes disproportionality of race and geography in adult sentencing.
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Juvenile InJustice: Charging Youth as Adults is Ineffective, Biased, and Harmful
Tags: California | Brain and Adolescent Development | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Youth in the Adult System | Restorative Justice | Evidence-Based Practices | Reports | Research | Member Publications
A collaboration of formerly incarcerated youth and their families. Shows the harmful effects and provides recommendations for restorative justice-oriented solutions to improve health outcomes.
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Seattle and King County leaders oppose youth detention center
Tags: Washington | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Fiscal Issues and Funding | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Public Opinion and Messaging | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Restorative Justice | Media | Reports
The proposal to build Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) in Seattle’s Central District must be redesigned to achieve ending the school-to-prison pipeline and ensure children and families in crisis are served with a model justice system.
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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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Walk in Our Shoes- Youth Share their Ideas for Changing Connecticut’s Juvenile Justice System
Tags: Connecticut | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Evidence-Based Practices | Member Publications
Approximately 40 youth participated in listening sessions that became, Walk in Our Shoes: Youth Share their Ideas for Changing Connecticut's Juvenile Justice System, issued by the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance and the Youth First Initiative. The report breaks down the young people's comments into a series of recommendations.
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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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Promoting Positive Development: The Critical Need to Reform Youth Probation Orders
Tags: Federal | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Washington | General System Reform | Life Without Parole and Parole Issues | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports | Partner Publications
Research discussing the fairness and effectiveness of placing children on probation. Outlines the most common failings of probation orders and offers suggestions for making them age-appropriate, legal, and targeted towards positive development instead of seeking blind compliance.
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In Memphis, Youth Who Have Moved Through the School-to-Prison Pipeline Are Helping to Change It
Tags: Tennessee | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Media
Profile of a program run by Mahal Burr and Evan Morrison, who will receive a 2016 Award for Leadership in Youth Justice Reform from NJJN on July 26, 2016.
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For One Memphis Baker, Juvenile Justice Is Part of the Recipe
Tags: Tennessee | Aftercare/Reentry | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | General System Reform | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Media
Profile of Lauren Wilson Young, recipient of the 2016 Award for Leadership in Juvenile Justice Reform from NJJN and JustCity.
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Protecting Youth Confined for Profit - Policy Safeguards | PDF
Tags: National | Detention | Institutional Conditions | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Privatization | NJJN Publications
NJJN opposes the use of for-profit private youth confinement facilities because they encourage the incarceration of youth and the elimination of services youth need to succeed; and they are morally wrong. Where they are still used, these policy safeguards help protect youth, taxpayers, and public safety.
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Behavioral Health Problems, Treatment, and Outcomes in Serious Youthful Offenders
Tags: National | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports | Research
Research done by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, provides pathways to desistance for youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system. This can be accomplished by focusing on mental health needs, behavioral health problems, and following up with these youth once care has been adminstered.
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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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DC, Reforming Youth Diversion in the District of Columbia, 2014
Tags: District of Columbia | Deinstitutionalization | Detention | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports
This report focuses on how DC can prevent unnecessary youth involvement in the juvenile justice system and explains what stakeholders would be involved in this process.
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Using Cost-Benefit Analysis for Justice Policymaking
Tags: National | Fiscal Issues and Funding | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports | Research
The Vera Institute for Justice convened a working group of researchers and policymakers to help advance the use of rigorous cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in decisions about criminal justice programs and policies.
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Toward Abolishing the Use of Disciplinary Isolation in Juvenile Justice Institutions: Some Initial Ideas
Tags: National | General System Reform | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Evidence-Based Practices | Research
This paper makes the case for the abolition of isolation as a disciplinary practice in youth institutions. It outlines clear steps and practices that staff can take to reduce or outright abolish the practice, relying instead on more effective and humane disciplinary strategies.
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Connecticut Encourages Use of Community-Based Programs to Prevent Justice System Involvement, S.B. 1163/Act No. 13-268
Tags: Connecticut | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | Legislation
The Connecticut General Assembly passed a law establishing a pilot program in Hartford aimed at preventing youth delinquency and violence. The program requires the Court Support Services Division to collaborate with community-based services aimed at promoting positive youth development and reducing contact with the juvenile justice system. The law also establishes a bond program to provide grants to subsidize youth employment through the newly established Connecticut Young Adult Conservation Corps. S.B. 1163/Act No. 13-268, signed into law July 11, 2013; Hartford pilot program effective July 11, 2013, bond program effective July 1, 2013, and Connecticut Young Adult Conservation Corps effective January 1, 2014.
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Positive Youth Justice: Framing Justice Interventions Using the Concepts of Positive Youth Development, Jeffrey A. Butts, Gordon Bazemore and Aundra Saa Meroe, Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports
Report providing a framework for redesigning juvenile justice systems and programs in a way that could dramatically improve outcomes for youth.
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Approaching Juvenile Justice with a Focus on Positive Youth Development, National Juvenile Justice Network Policy Platform
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports | NJJN Publications
In this policy platform, the National Juvenile Justice Network offers recommendations on how to incorporate the principles of positive youth development into juvenile justice practices, programs and policies.
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A Sensible Model for Juvenile Justice, Jeffrey A. Butts, Briefing Paper for Youth Transition Funders Group
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports
Paper calling for youth development as a response to and way to limit the prevalence of youth crime and juvenile offenders.
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Building on Strength: Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice Programs, William H. Barton and Jeffrey A. Butts, Chapin Hall Center for Children
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports
Report summarizing observations and conclusions from an exploratory study of six juvenile justice programs that are attempting to improve their intervention approaches by using a strength-based, positive youth development perspective. The study included a series of site visits to youth programs around the United States. Programs were selected because they described themselves as working within a strength-based positive youth development approach.
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Focusing Juvenile Justice on Positive Youth Development, Jeffrey Butts, Susan Mayer and Gretchen Ruth, Chapin Hall Center for Children Issue Brief
Tags: Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports
Paper arguing and presenting evidence that before another juvenile crime wave appears, policymakers and practitioners should do everything possible to ensure that the juvenile justice system has a clear plan of intervention and a menu of evidence-based programs for all types of youth, including offenders charged with property offenses, minor drug offenses, and various misdemeanors.