One out of every 10 children in the U.S. has a parent under the supervision of the criminal justice system. Yet little attention has been paid to this vulnerable population. Join award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein to talk about the lives of the children of incarcerated parents, how law and policy exacerbate the damage to family bonds, and emerging proposals to recognize children's need for parental contact.
Sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, "Graduated Sanctions in Juvenile Justice: A National Training," is scheduled for May 7-10, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nev.
Unlike the more familiar juvenile offender justice system, it's not always clear how the juvenile victim justice system works, and how the many agencies serving young victims of crime—from police and courts to child protective services and mental health agencies—interact. This bulletin looks at how cases move through the system and the typical processes in the juvenile victim justice system.
(Issue brief) Although encouraging positive youth development is increasingly taking hold in many sectors of child advocacy, the juvenile justice system tends to rely on a traditional detention and punishment approach. This Chapin Hall issue brief examines current practices for youthful offenders and evidence that drawing on positive youth development strategies can improve services and outcomes for young offenders. (Free registration required.)
While the federal No Child Left Behind law has focused needed attention on educational inequities, some students remain nearly invisible: kids involved in the juvenile justice system. Caitlin Johnson looks at efforts to reconnect these children to the education they desperately need— and in particular at Washington, DC's Maya Angelou public charter high school.
This is the debut event for Thursday's Child -- the new monthly public policy forum on children, families, and communities -- co-presented by Chapin Hall Center for Children and the Urban Institute.
According to the report, "Keystones for Reform," the strong partnerships among Pennsylvania's stakeholders and considerable consensus about the strengths and weaknesses of the state's juvenile justice system have created a context where good public policy can flourish. Pennsylvania's success in developing stable funding streams for local youth services, the growing funding and use of evidenced-based practices, the expansion of mental health screening for detained youth, and the expansion of alternatives to detention in the biggest cities are all considered signs that the state is poised to become an exemplary system.
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