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NDTAC Practice Guide: Improving Educational Outcomes for Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems Through Interagency Communication and Collaboration(PDF)
This guide builds on the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform’s 2010 monograph, Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems (Leone and Weinberg), by highlighting three key practices that agencies can employ to achieve collaboration and providing concrete strategies for adopting the practices and overcoming common challenges.
Best Practices in Interagency Collaboration: Youth Homelessness and Juvenile Justice
This brief from the National Center for Homeless Education provides basic information to help educators understand the juvenile court process and explains why the McKinney- Vento Homeless Assistance Act is a critical tool for juvenile justice agencies to help homeless youth they work with to enroll and succeed in school.
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Strategies, Models, and Innovations
Formalizing Connections Between Corrections and Education: Maine's Reintegration Teams
NDTAC spotlights Maine's legislation that formalizes a specific procedure for transitioning students by requiring every school district to convene a formal reintegration team for each student who returns to public school from residential care in the State of Maine.
Further Reading
A Summary of Best Practice in School Reentry for Incarcerated Youth Returning Home
The challenges associated with successfully transitioning students from secure care environments back to their community schools and the planning, collaboration, and family involvement that help make it happen.
Comprehensive Responses to Youth At Risk: Interim Finding from the SafeFutures Initiative
This summary focuses on chosen sites' implementation of SafeFutures during the first three years of the initiative as evaluated against OJJDP's goals for the local demonstrations.
Collaboration in the Juvenile Justice System and Youth Serving Agencies: Improving Prevention, Providing More Efficient Services, and Reducing Recidivism for Youth with Disabilities
The possibilities of collaboration between youth services and the juvenile justice system in order to effectively reduce juvenile delinquency are explored in this report.
Collaborate to Educate: Special Education in Juvenile Correctional Facilities
Collaboration among education and treatment professionals is fundamental to the provision of appropriate special education services for youth who are at risk for delinquency and for those in correctional settings. This article directs attention to collaboration as a best practice approach to improving education and special education services for incarcerated youth and identifies core elements of successful education programs in detention and confinement facilities.
Reforming Juvenile Justice Through Comprehensive Community Planning
This publication outlines the Comprehensive Community Planning process developed by two U.S. Department of Justice officials and its results as tested in several communities nationwide. The goal of the process is to refocus attention on prevention and early intervention as important parts of a comprehensive youth crime strategy. The article provides an overview of the process and chronicles the experiences with it in each trial community, including process outcomes, new programs, and new legislation reflecting the Comprehensive Community Planning ideals.
Other Resources
Developing Safe Schools Partnerships: Spotlight on Juvenile Justice (PDF)
This 2-page fact sheet contains information from the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative and resources on developing effective juvenile justice/school relations.
Legal Requirements & Legislation
State Juvenile Agency Records Provisions
OJJDP, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Fox Valley Technical College, have put together a Web site that organizes and presents State laws on juvenile record privacy. It is designed to assist State and local juvenile justice agencies when implementing interagency agreements. The reader should quickly be able to determine what the law of his/her State permits and requires as to juvenile record sharing.
Events & Presentations
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Effective Collaboration For Serious Violent Offender Reentry
A presentation by David Osher, PhD, Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
Think Exit at Entry: Preparing Youth in Secure Care for Successful Reintegration Back to the Community
Dorothy Wodraska's presentation addresses Arizona's statewide commitment to reducing recidivism, promoting collaboration among different agencies, and rigorous tracking and monitoring of youth as they move through the juvenile justice system.
Check out the Collaboration and State Plans section of NDTAC's Webinars page to view our most recent Webinars on Collaboration.
Tools
Transition Toolkit: Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration
Use the NDTAC Transition Toolkit to learn how to better communicate and collaborate with other stakeholders involved in the education and transition of youth who are neglected or delinquent.
Casey Life Skills Web Site
View the online, easy-to-use tool for youth to assess their strengths in life skills such as money management, work and study habits, self-care, and independent living.