«Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO) have the greatest coverage across the Territory and work with Aboriginal children, young people and families everyday on child protection and
youth justice system prevention and early intervention support.»
Not exact matches
Among the specific programs are those funded through JJDPA's Title V, the only federal program that provides delinquency
prevention funding at the local level to reach
youth at risk and help keep them out of the juvenile
justice system.
«There is now an established framework for delivering effective
prevention programmes across the
youth justice system and we welcome this renewed focus, which it is hoped will support continuing success.
Community - based interventions Delinquency -
prevention programs in community settings can be created for various purposes such as diverting
youth out of the juvenile
justice system, serving
youth placed on informal or formal probation, or serving
youth on parole who are returning to the community after a residential placement.
Consistent with its mission, Center initiatives focus on school - based
prevention and intervention programs; childhood mental health and positive
youth development; family strengthening; juvenile
justice, court interventions and community safety; community health;
system of care and cultural competency; and workforce development to advance educational success, health and well - being.
The NMRC Research Board also helps develop a repository of mentoring program resources (e.g., training guides, handbooks and curricula) that are intended to promote positive
youth outcomes, particularly those relating to the
prevention of delinquent behavior, victimization and juvenile
justice system involvement.
These include the Child Study, a multi-site longitudinal randomized controlled trial of the Friends of the Children professional
youth mentoring program; the Relief Nursery Study, a randomized controlled trial of a multimodal therapeutic preschool program for at risk children and families; the Parent Child Study, a randomized trial of Parenting Inside Out, a parent management training with incarcerated parents within adult corrections; the Paths Project, a study of the transition into young adulthood for
youth who were heavily involved with the juvenile
justice system and who participated in a randomized trial of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC, now known as Treatment Foster Care Oregon); and the Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) Project, a study of the transitions into young adulthood for participants in a randomized multi-modal school - based
prevention intervention program that began during elementary school.