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Addressing the Needs of Multi-System Youth: Strengthening the Connection between Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice (PDF)

September 2013
This Center for Juvenile Justice Reform paper was designed to provide a framework for jurisdictions to utilize in better serving youth known to both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The paper is intended to improve understanding of how to prevent youth from crossing over between syste...

Developing Safe Schools Partnerships: Spotlight on Juvenile Justice (PDF)

September 2013
This 2-page fact sheet contains information from the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative and resources on developing effective juvenile justice/school relations. ...

Preventing Youth Delinquency: Identifying School Risk and Protective Factors

September 2013
Although a strong body of research on what makes a student at risk for delinquent behavior exists, few studies have examined the variables within schools that exacerbate or counteract these risks. The results of EDJJ's three multimethod studies suggest that school-level characteristics can help mini...

NDTAC Brief: Improving Conditions for Learning for Youth Who Are Neglected or Delinquent

September 2013
Learning is not just a cognitive process; research shows that powerful social and emotional factors affect learning. By providing students with support that addresses these needs and building positive social and emotional conditions for learning, staff in facilities and schools can help improve lear...

Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR)

September 2013
The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute supports leaders in juvenile justice and related systems of care through providing a multi-systems perspective and related resources in this area. ...

Program Highlights: Accessing Online Supplemental Textbook Material

May 2014
This Program Highlight is the first in a series exploring the use of educational technology in juvenile secure-care facilities. This Highlight examines three facilities in Indiana and their efforts to provide access to online supplemental textbook materials to teachers and studen...

Program Highlights: International Computer Driving License Program

May 2014
This Program Highlight is the second in a series exploring the use of educational technology in juvenile securecare facilities. This Highlight examines the experience of Loysville Youth Development Center (LYDC) with implementing an online computer skills certificate program...

Program Highlights: Oregon Virtual School District

May 2014
This Program Highlight is the third in a series exploring the use of educational technology in juvenile securecare facilities. This Highlight examines Oregon’s Stateoperated juvenile justice facilities and their use of a virtual school district to provide online academic content ...

Reentry Mythbuster: Education Technology

July 2014
This Reentry Council MythBuster on Education Technology in Juvenile Facilities features information and examples on how to use technology effectively in juvenile justice settings.  While concerns over youth and community safety often prevent facilities from pursuing such options, stat...

Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems

September 2014
This Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) white paper outlines potential strategies, programs and resources that will enable political and agency leaders, policymakers, and practitioners to act collaboratively across systems to effectively improve the educational outcomes for youth known to ...

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