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Program Highlights: Northern Virginia Detention Center

January 2014
The Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center is a secure, pre- and postdisposition center outside of Washington, DC. The faculty approaches educational programming from the premise that for many students, engaging in educational programming while in a juvenile detention facility affords them the ...

Program Highlights: Stadium View School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

January 2014
This profile highlights Stadium View, a short-term stay school in the Juvenile Detention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With an active parent council and partnerships with more than 70 community organizations, this program is the only short-term correctional educational school outside the state o...

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 ...

Core Principles for Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

August 2014
This white paper was written to guide leaders across all branches of government; juvenile justice system administrators, managers, and front-line staff; and researchers, advocates, and other stakeholders on how to better leverage existing research and resources to facilitate system improvements that...

Guiding Principles for Providing High-Quality Education in Juvenile Justice Secure Care Settings

December 2014
This document, Guiding Principles for Providing High-Quality Education in Juvenile Justice Secure Care Settings, outlines five principles and supporting core activities to improve education practices or implement new ones. Authored jointly by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, the guide ...

Orphanages, Training Schools, Reform Schools and Now This?

July 2015
This report from the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN), the national membership organization for Protection and Advocacy agencies, shares information about successfully meeting the needs of children and youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system.  Highlights include discussi...

LOCKED OUT: Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth

November 2015
This issue brief highlights the key findings of a national survey conducted in partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators of all 50 state agencies, to better understand the extent states are currently providing incarcerated youth with access to educational and vocational se...

Program Highlights: Boys to Men Arizona

August 2017
Highlights the site-based mentoring and mentor training used in an Arizona program geared towards guiding boys aged 13-17 toward a healthy manhood.  Download (PDF) ...

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