Organizational Change in Juvenile Justice
The proposed date on which New York City’s ‘Close to Home’ initiative will begin accepting children into its facilities is September 1, 2012. The City’s Administration for Children’s Services, which will be in charge of the new initiative, has already released a list of recommended service providers, and a detailed [...]
These forums have already begun, and are taking place in neighborhoods which have been designated as having high rates of ‘sending’ to upstate residential facilities. The East Harlem and Staten Island forums remain:
Manhattan–East Harlem
Friday, March 16, 2012, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
2180 Third Avenue (corner of 119th Street), New [...]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that his budget would include a provision to reform the state’s juvenile justice system by providing residential and community-based care in New York City for young people adjudicated as delinquents who are from New York City, rather than sending them upstate. Called the ‘Close to Home’ [...]
The Children’s Defense Fund of New York has just released a toolkit on youth justice which can be used by educators to teach students about juvenile justice reform. The toolkit includes important data about how many youth become enmeshed in New York’s system, the costs of secure care, and what kinds of reforms [...]
I recently learned about a program offered by Children’s Village, an agency for children in New York’s child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems, which provides support to youth leaving residential care. Under the program, called the Work Appreciation for Youth model, Children’s Village provides mentorship and guidance to youth leaving care, [...]
The New York State Juvenile Justice Steering Committee has released a strategic plan for implementing juvenile justice reforms in the state. Components of the plan include the development of system governance and coordination, an effective continuum of diversion, supervision, treatment, and confinement, accountability of system and actors within the system, shared data and information [...]
This month, the National Center for Youth in Custody, which is co-directed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators and the National Partnership for Juvenile Services, has been launched. The Center’s mission is described in this way: to advance the field of juvenile justice by providing training and technical assistance and by [...]
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has just released a report in which they make a case for reducing juvenile incarceration. The report provides data on the extent of confinement, its costs, and the alternatives to incarceration which are available. The report provides comprehensive and up-to-date data on the issues surrounding the incarceration of young [...]
Represent, a magazine devoted to the voices of young people in care, has an issue devoted to the experience of being institutionalized. This is a fantastic issue, with stories written by young people with a wide range of experiences–from foster care, to group homes, to residential treatment centers, to detention. [...]
Today, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he would be donating funds from his private foundation to a major new jobs initiative for young men in New York City. These funds would be matched by George Soros. This initiative seems to be an important and essential step in the city, particularly in light of research which [...]
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The Vera Institute of Justice has published a report about the use of risk assessment instruments to determine a young person’s placement options after they are arrested. The instrument was developed based on an analysis of data about young people arrested in Family Court in New York City. Among the factors which were [...]
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