Found 20 matches.
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Reducing Recidivism for Justice-Involved Youth
Tags: Federal | National | Aftercare/Reentry | General System Reform | Risk Assessment and Screening | Correctional Education | Reports | Web-Based Tools
New guides and resources to help justice-involved youth transition back to traditional school settings. Includes a guide written for incarcerated youth; a newly updated transition toolkit and resource guide for practitioners in juvenile justice facilities.
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New Report- Defend Children: A Blueprint for Effective Juvenile Defender Services
Tags: National | Detention | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | General System Reform | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Reports | Web-Based Tools | Partner Publications
Details how children are arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated without attorneys at their side. Youth, and disproportionately youth of color, are swept into a system that criminalizes normal childhood behavior and deliberately withholds rights and protections that children not only deserve, but are constitutionally entitled to receive.
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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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Victims of Crime Act and the Need for Advocacy
Tags: California | Victims | Web-Based Tools
Too often, crime survivors, especially repeat victims of crime, lack access to basic supports to address trauma and get help with recovery. There is a new opportunity to increase funding for programs that serve the people and communities most harmed by violence and crime and least helped. Californians for Safety and Justice put together this toolkit to help crime survivors and advocates learn about this new opportunity and organize to access funding.
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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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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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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Justice Policy Toolkit
Tags: National | Fiscal Issues and Funding | Web-Based Tools
This toolkit, provided by the Vera Institute of Justice, guides readers through producing cost-benefit analyses in the field of justice policy.
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A Toolkit for Status Offense System Reform, Module Two: Using Local Information to Guide System Change
Tags: National | Status Offenses | Web-Based Tools
In this second module for status offense system reform, the Vera Institute of Justice recommends conducting a system assessment in order to fully grasp how the status offense system works. Once the policies are understood, then data should be collected on how local stakeholders view the system. By collecting and analyzing data on how others perceive the system, ways on how to bring change and reform will be more apparent.
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A Toolkit for Status Offense System Reform, Module One: Structuring System Change
Tags: National | Status Offenses | Research | Web-Based Tools
This toolkit on status offense reform offers ways in which youths can be provided the effective treatment and guidance needed; all while avoiding the trauma and stigmatization of the criminal justice system. These steps include diversion from court, focus on home-life, accessible services to those who need them, and following up on those who do require assistance.
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A Toolkit for Status Offense System Reform, Module Three: Planning and Implementing System Change
Tags: National | Status Offenses | Web-Based Tools
In Module Three of the status offense system reform, data will be used from the system assessment to start implementing a reformed system that meets everyone's needs. By building on existing practices across the country, prioritizing areas for reform, setting goals, and lastly designing the reform, this plan will come to life.
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Restorative Practices: Fostering Healthy Relationships & Promoting Positive Discipline in Schools
Tags: National | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Restorative Justice | Research | Web-Based Tools
The Advancement Project's toolkit for implementing restorative practices in the classroom.
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Appendix 1: Directory of Federal School Climate and Discipline Resources
Tags: Federal | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Reports | Web-Based Tools
Appendix 1 of the Department of Education and Department of Justice's federal guidelines on school discipline. Provides a list of resources related to school climate and school discipline.
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Appendix 2: Compendium of School Discipline Laws and Regulations for the 50 States, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico
Tags: Federal | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Legislation | Research | Web-Based Tools
Appendix 2 of the Department of Education and Department of Justice's federal guidelines on school discipline. This appendix compiles laws and regulations regarding school climate and school discipline for each state in the U.S., plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
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Guiding Principles: A Resource Guide for Improving School Climate and Discipline
Tags: Federal | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Reports | Web-Based Tools
The Department of Education and the Department of Justice's joint federal resource guide for improving school climate and discipline.
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National Reentry Resource Center
Tags: Aftercare/Reentry | Web-Based Tools
Web resource created by the Office of Justice Programs and the Council of State Governments Justice Center to provide training and technical assistance to states, localities, and tribes to develop evidence-based reentry programs for adults and juveniles.
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Girls Study Group Web site, Research Triangle Institute
Tags: Girls | Web-Based Tools
Website includes presentations and a searchable database of references for girls delinquency.
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Interactive State Data Map, W. Haywood Burns Institute
Tags: Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Web-Based Tools
Interactive online map of all 50 states outline juvenile justice outcomes related to DMC.
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National Center for Girls and Young Women Web Site
Tags: Girls | Web-Based Tools
Center is a response to the growing population of girls in the juvenile justice system. Center focuses on advocacy, research, assessment services, staff training and evaluation to address juvenile justice and child welfare systems that are designed for boys and ill-equipped to meet the gender-specific needs of girls and young women.
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Race and Justice Clearinghouse, The Sentencing Project
Tags: Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Web-Based Tools
Online database of annotated citations for more than 450 research articles, studies, reports, and books that explore the intersection of race and ethnicity within the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems.
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The Effective Management of Juvenile Sex Offenders in the Community: The Legal and Legislative Response, Center for Sex Offender Management Web site
Tags: Sex Offender Registries | Web-Based Tools
Curriculum designed to facilitate the understanding of: (1) changes in legislative responses to juvenile sex offenders in recent decades; (2) the application of federal registration and community notification laws to juvenile sex offenders at the state level; (3) the presence of sexually violent predator/civil commitment laws that apply to juvenile offenders; and (4) some of the concerns about applying these laws to juvenile offenders without consideration of unintended collateral consequences for these youth.