Organizational Change in Juvenile Justice
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This news just came out from Politics on the Hudson:
State officials quietly put out public notices this afternoon that they plan to downsize or close eight juvenile justice facilities in the state.
Four are closing: the Tryon GIrls Center in Fulton County; the Allen Residential Center in Delaware County; the Industry Secure [...]
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I just attended an event at the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School on the issue of public pensions. The speakers included the former Lt. Governor of New York, Richard Ravitch, the head of the United Federation of Teachers, Mike Mulgrew, and E.J. McMahon [...]
New York State Assemblymember Karim Camara (D-Brooklyn) has introduced legislation (A07795) which would allow local jurisdictions to keep young people sentenced to custody within their jurisdictions. New York City would be most significantly impacted by this legislation, as approximately 60% of the young people sentenced to custody in the state are from the city. [...]
The Next Generation Youth Work Coalition, which is focused on frontline workers in afterschool and other youth programs, published a report about growing a generation of youth work professionals. This coalition recommends that local jurisdictions conduct surveys of the quality, availability and landscape of youth work in order to help build and retain a [...]
I recently finished reading the 1991 book Last One Over the Wall: The Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools. It was written by Jerome Miller, the former head of Massachusetts’ juvenile justice system, who was involved in a large scale deinstitutionalization process there. The book provides his reflections on the process of organizational change [...]
The MacArthur Foundation-funded ‘Models for Change’ program conducted an assessment of reforms to behavioral health programs in the Illinois juvenile justice system, and they issued a report about these programs in July of 2010. This report details the findings of an assessment of various areas of the behavioral change program, including [...]
This past week, I attended the annual conference of the American Association of Children’s Residential Centers. This is an organization of professionals working in and managing therapeutic residential centers for children with mental health disorders. However, these centers are not at all limited to young people entering through the mental health system; facilities [...]
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