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Reconnecting: The Role of the Juvenile Court in Reentry This new NCJFCJ publications is a guide to planning, implementing, and operating a juvenile court to manage the reintegration into the community of juveniles who have undergone court-ordered out-of-home placement. 46 pages. Available in hard copy for $7/copy. Downloadable at the link above. ++++++++++ Aftercare, Reentry and Transition Services Boston Success Initiative – Transitioning Juveniles Back to the Classroom The Boston Success Initiative is a transitional school where juveniles who are being released by DYS facilities can go to prepare for their return to public high school. It is an intermediary step that provides them with the opportunity to catch up to their peers so they won’t be so far behind when they enter a regular classroom. ++++++++++ Implementation and Outcome Evaluation of the Intensive Aftercare Program The OJJDP-sponsored Intensive Aftercare Program addresses a critical problem facing the nation’s juvenile justice system: how to reduce recidivism among high-risk parolees through intensive supervision and services after they have been released from detention. This new report presents the findings from a five year, multisite evaluation of the implementation and outcomes of IAP. 110 page pdf file. If you want the executive summary only, print pages 1-15. ++++++++++ A Summary of Best practices in School Reentry for Incarcerated Youth Returning Home (Scroll down to Publications and click on the 1st one). The JustChildren Program of the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville, Va. prepared this research to assist the Virginia Board of Education in the development of regulations on school reenrollment. The research revealed four characteristics of best practice in school reenrollment for young people returning home from juvenile prisons: Inter-agency and community cooperation: clear roles and responsibilities – Clear definition of roles and responsibilities of various agency personnel, including specific timelines for the development of a reenrollment plan and the transfer of records, building in transparency and accountability. Youth and family involvement – Insure the youth and appropriate family members are involved in the process, have copies of the plan, and the contact information for people who are responsible for helping the student to reenroll. Speedy placement – Insure that young people can reenroll quickly – the same day or shortly after their release. Appropriate placement – Insure the student is returning to an appropriate education placement in the least restrictive environment. Continuity is vital. Frustration must be reduced to a minimum. Placement should be based on the presumption that a young person has been rehabilitated with no automatic placement in alternative programs for students with discipline problems.
16 page pdf file. ++++++++++ Overcoming Barriers to School Reentry For youth leaving custody return to school is integral to successful reentry into the community. New York City Dept. of Education data indicate that more than two-thirds of high school-age offenders do not return to school on release. This fact sheet profiles New York City’s CASES programs for returning juveniles – the School Connection Center and Community Prep High School. ++++++++++ Santa Clara County Judge Pushes for Re-entry Court in California Judge Leonard Edwards, California Superior Court judge and past president of NCJFCJ, urges state officials to create a re-entry court, making local judges responsible for monitoring the progress of wards in the Youth Authority and supervising them after parole. Edwards and others say that the re-entry court approach can provide closer supervision of young offenders and better coordination with community-based rehabilitation programs. See related article below. +++++++++++ Left Adrift on Parole Three out of four young adults paroled from the California Youth Authority are arrested on new criminal charges within three years after emerging from a system that failed to provide them for a constructive, law-abiding life. This article from The Mercury News follows one young former inmate as he attempts to negotiate his world with little preparation or assistance. He doesn’t know how to write a check, manage a bank account, or how to drive. Programs to assist him make the transition back to society don’t happen. ++++++++++ National Portrait of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative This first report from the program’s multi-site evaluation describes the evaluation process and contains detailed descriptions of reentry programs and activities under way in the 69 sites funded through SVORI. The complete report is 246 pages. You can download it by section to avoid giving your printer hysterics. ++++++++++ Intensive Juvenile Aftercare Reference Guide This new best practices guide is the most up-to-date body of information available on the development and implementation of a comprehensive reintegrative intervention for juvenile offenders placed in correctional, out-of-home settings operating at the local, county and state levels. The IAP model serves as a point of reference for describing the nature and sequencing of decisions tied to pre-release planning, transitional activities, and community follow-up. This is a massive document -- 252 pages – but it covers everything. Downloadable pdf file. ++++++++++ Publications from the Vera Institute ++++++++++ Recommendations of the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission Report to the ABA House of Delegates with four recommendations on: - Punishment, Incarceration, and Sentencing
- Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System
- Clemency, Sentence Reduction and Restoration of Rights
- Prison Conditions and prisoner Reentry
The first six pages of the pdf file include summaries of the recommendations. ++++++++++ Aftercare Services I missed listing the most recent Department of Justice publication on aftercare last week. This Juvenile Justice Bulletin is a long one – 30 pages – and a thorough one. It profiles, examines and compares half a dozen existing aftercare programs. Includes a list of resource organizations. ++++++++++ Juvenile Aftercare Publications: 1994-2003 These two summary reports were published in 1994. They show the interim results of OJJDP’s research and development initiative to assess, test, and disseminate information on intensive aftercare programs models (IAP - Intensive Aftercare Project). The next two documents are Juvenile Justice Bulletins reporting on aspects of the IAP project (Intensive Aftercare Project): The publications below are from a variety of resources: - Aftercare and Reentry in an Accountability-Based System – Technical Assistance Resource Guide from JAIBG – 22 page pdf file. Published May 2002
- Juvenile Aftercare Services – An issue of inSummary, a serial publication of the National Center for Juvenile Justice on accountability based programs. This issue reviews and summarizes publications in juvenile aftercare and provides ordering information. Includes publications I don’t mention here. 8 page pdf file. Published 1999.
- EDJJ Notes – Newsletter of the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice. This issue’s headline article is about the Arizona Detention Transition Project. 7 page pdf file. Published January 2003.
- Aftercare – This section of the Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center will give you a list of process and outcome measures to consider when evaluating aftercare programs.
- Guidebook for Reintegration Standards – A set of performance-based standards for the Youth Correction and Detention Facilities Series of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators. 17 page pdf file. Published April 2003.
- Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) – The web site of OJJDP’s Intensive Aftercare Project will give you information about the progress of the project, about forthcoming publications, and contact information for inquiries.
++++++++++ Aftercare Services OJJDP opens a new series of publications, the Juvenile Justice Practices Series, with this aftercare bulletin. The bulletin describes comprehensive aftercare services that provide youth with a wide variety of services on release from detention. It reviews relevant research, analyzes aftercare as it relates to system change, and identifies six promising aftercare programs. 32 pages. Downloadable pdf file. ++++++++++ Aftercare as Afterthought: Re-entry and the California Youth Authority A study commissioned by the California State Senate and conducted by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) found that aftercare services for youth discharged from the California Youth Authority are inadequate or non-existent. According to the report, it costs society more than $1.7 million for each youth that drops out of school to become involved in a life of crime and drug abuse. Beyond the fiscal impact, the damaging effects of the current system are felt at the individual, community, and statewide level. The report says that investing in reintegration programs that produce even a moderate reduction in recidivism reflects a sound, cost-effective investment decision. From the Executive Summary: “Current systems in California fail to adequately address the 91% recidivism rate of CYA [ California Youth Authority] parolees. This failure perpetuates an ineffective juvenile justice system in which youthful offenders cycle in and out of institutional facilities at an annual cost of $48,000 per offender…. It costs society more than $1.7 million for each youth that drops out of school to become involved in a life of crime and drug abuse.” Read the Executive Summary At the same location you can download the complete report. ++++++++++ Young Offenders Reentry Program SAMHSA announces the availability of $6 million for grants in fiscal year 2003 to support substance abuse treatment and related reentry services for juvenile and young adult offenders returning to the community after incarceration. SAMHSA intends to award 12 to 14 grants averaging $300,000 to $500,000 in FY 2003 to public and private nonprofit entities with stipulated stakeholder partners. Grants will be awarded for up to four years with annual funding contingent on availability of funds and progress achieved by the grantee. For more information and to download application materials click on http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grants.html Deadline for application is January 17, 2003 . ++++++++++ Intensive Aftercare Programs (IAP) The goal of the IAP Juvenile Reintegration and Aftercare Center is to help agencies, both public and private, develop and implement programming for successful transition and re-entry of juvenile offenders into the community from out-of-home placement. IAP stresses that both surveillance and treatment services are critical to the successful reintegration of youth into the community. Services include: - Training and Technical Assistance
- Information Dissemination
- Linkage to Aftercare Resources
The IAP Center maintains a pool of consultants with special knowledge and experience in the design and implementation of intensive and specialized juvenile aftercare services. It also functions as a clearinghouse for technical assistance and training requests. The web site includes a set of links to aftercare resources and a list of several downloadable publications. |
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