Sentences with phrase «juvenile justice systems»
«The results of evidence - based home visitation are clear: fewer young children in our costly social welfare, mental health and juvenile justice systems, and considerable cost savings for states.
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Trauma Affect Regulation / Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET): A case study moving toward trauma - informed juvenile justice systems.
We provide the PLL System of Care to community and government organizations in the child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems to help them achieve proven outcomes.
Reforming juvenile justice systems: Beyond treatment.
They are flooding our child welfare and juvenile justice systems with an overwhelming array of problems — emotional, behavioral, social, cognitive, physical and moral — and growing up to perpetuate the cycle with their own children.
Ms Mundine said that while the commission's inquiry related specifically to the Northern Territory, there is ample evidence that reforms are urgently needed across juvenile justice systems Australia - wide.
complete a second stage of research into Indigenous young people with cognitive (brain function) disability and the links to the health, education and juvenile justice systems
Provides information on trauma - related procedures for use with dual status youth — children and adolescents who come into contact with both child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
Addressing The Needs Of Youth Known To Both The Child Welfare And Juvenile Justice Systems (PDF - 3976 KB) Bilchik (2010) Discusses innovative practices courts can implement to serve children who come to their attention through multiple systems and to prevent youth from further system involvement.
Bridging Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Preventing Unnecessary Detention of Foster Children Ross, Conger, & Armstrong Child Welfare, 81 (3), 2002 View Abstract Examines the lack of coordination between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and describes a New York program to reduce problems associated with this gap.
Domains of adverse experiences included family relationships, community stressors, personal victimization, economic hardship, peer relationships, discrimination, school, health, and child welfare / juvenile justice systems.
Child Welfare League of America Juvenile Justice Division Works to increase awareness of the connection between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency and the need for an integrated approach to programs and services across the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
To end this national tragedy, the Federal Government, through COAG, must lead a national overhaul of juvenile justice systems, laws, policies and practices.
It is not merely an accident of language that the appalling infant mortality and peri-natal morbidity rates for Indigenous infants results in vastly disproportionate «hospital separations» today, and that the juvenile justice systems of Australia continue to separate Indigenous children from their families at rates well beyond those for other Australian children.
The Department of Justice offers funding opportunities to support law enforcement and public safety activities in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions; to assist victims of crime; to provide training and technical assistance; to conduct research; and to implement programs that improve the criminal, civil, and juvenile justice systems.
Each of the four MLC clinics provide free legal services to the most vulnerable populations — including people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBTQ community, undocumented immigrants and refugees, children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and people involved with the criminal justice system.
However, targeted, evidence - based social - emotional learning training of educators working with these historically under - served student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners, and youth involved in the juvenile justice systems has potential to optimize developmental trajectories.
Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance and diminished educational engagement; 9 decreased academic achievement; 10 increased behavior problems; 11 increased likelihood of dropping out; 12 substance abuse; 13 and involvement with juvenile justice systems.14
The overuse of out - of - school suspensions, referrals to juvenile justice systems and other forms of harsh traditional school discipline that all but a few NEA and AFT affiliates strongly support.
Bad policy backed by slipshod data equals damage to children, especially those from Black, Latino, and American Indian and Alaska Native households most - likely to be suspended, expelled and sent to juvenile justice systems (the school - to - prison pipeline) as a result of districts and other school operators overusing the most - punitive of school discipline.
NCMHJJ releases infograph presenting outcomes of four years of mental health capacity building work in juvenile justice systems across the country.
Josh Laurie has 10 years experience managing programs with students who experience homelessness, foster care, juvenile justice systems and the transition to college from K - 12 systems.
Young people involved in the child welfare and / or juvenile justice systems often face significant challenges as they transition to college and career.
Overview For youth aging out of foster and / or involved in the juvenile justice systems, it is critical that we create accessible and supportive pathways to postsecondary success.
The 2014 letter declares that «Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance... decreased academic achievement... increased likelihood of dropping out; substance abuse; and involvement with juvenile justice systems.»
But the measure, which would impact a number of county offices, must come with increased funding for expanded juvenile justice systems, she said.
Often, DSS will work with a family involved in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems to utilize services offered at these facilities.
After an investigative report in the Miami Herald exposed abuses and mismanagement in the Florida juvenile justice system, the governor proposed $ 12 million in new maintenance dollars.
A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.
«When a youth gets into the juvenile justice system, everybody thinks their sins are forgiven when that youth turns 18, and I will assure you that doesn't happen,» the bill's sponsor, Florida Sen. Stephen Wise (R - Jacksonville), said before the legislation was passed.
For these at - risk kids, the juvenile justice system is a revolving door that returns them to the environment where their problems began.
«The Art of Yoga Project (AYP) has a mission to lead teen girls in the California juvenile justice system toward accountability to self, others and community by providing practical tools to effect behavioral change.»
She works full time at the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Hickory as a Project Coordinator with at - risk youth and now, with the help of BGCA and Kimberly Clark, she will be enrolling in the University of Phoenix to pursue a career in the juvenile justice system helping at - risk kids.
The juvenile justice system does not like the idea of kids skipping school and loitering around town, so there may be hope there.
Parents hear horror stories about kids involved with the juvenile justice system and are often afraid to contact them.
If you know your child has a problem but you haven't been able to get him off drugs or into treatment, then consider reporting his thefts to the police to get him into the juvenile justice system.
Governor Cuomo is proposing significant reform of the State's juvenile justice system and greater use of preventive services to generate better outcomes for children and family as well as significant savings.
Gov. David Paterson proposed changes to the juvenile justice system in the wake of the «sex party» scandal.
«There is an overwhelming need for reform in juvenile justice system, starting with the replacement of Commissioner Gladys Carrion, whose misguided policies and divisive management has put clients and staff at greater risk.
He brings with him extensive knowledge of the local juvenile justice system, and good working relationships with community organizations and state oversight agencies,» said Poloncarz.
«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.
However, the debate over reforms to the juvenile justice system proved to be deeply complex and, for now, are being pushed further down the legislative docket.
«With this historic settlement agreement, New York takes another step toward achieving true transformation of our juvenile justice system,» Paterson said.
«We support the governor's proposal to to raise the age of criminal responsibility in New York, but where will the juvenile offenders go as the juvenile justice system has been decimated under this governor?.
Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans continue to be at odds over the proposal to overhaul the state's juvenile justice system by raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18.
«Today's budget agreement includes a landmark overhaul of our juvenile justice system, paving the way for young people in the system to receive services close to their families and more easily transition back into their communities and productive lives.»
CITY HALL — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to seize control of the state's troubled juvenile justice system was met with resounding support from youth advocates and City Council members at a council hearing Wednesday.
Several other measures await votes, including bills to address campus sexual assault, reform the juvenile justice system and ban the sale of toys with potentially toxic chemicals.
«Why should we believe that if the mayor gets control of the Juvenile Justice system, he's going to be responsive to the community?»
The U.S. Department of Justice has reported that youths held in adult facilities are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted and Building Blocks for Youth, an initiative to promote a fair juvenile justice system, has said youths in those facilities are twice as likely to be injured by prison staff.