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Sharing information: A guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and participation in juvenile justice programs (PDF)

August 2013
This OJJDP guide is for education, juvenile justice, and community leaders who are interested in developing interagency information sharing agreements to fully involve the schools in a holistic approach to intervention and delinquency prevention. Educators and other youth-serving professionals will ...

OJJDP Model Programs Guide

August 2013
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Model Programs Guide is a database of over 200 evidence-based programs. This database can be used to find programs that cover a continuum of youth services from prevention through reentry. ...

A Summary of Best Practice in School Reentry for Incarcerated Youth Returning Home

August 2013
This summary of a Legal Aid Justice Center report highlights the challenges associated with successfully transitioning students from secure care environments back to their community schools as well as the planning, collaboration, and family involvement that help make it happen. ...

Providers Guide to Casey Life Skills

September 2013
This online, easy-to-use tool from Casey Family Programs allows youth to assess their strengths in life skills, such as money management, work and study habits, self-care, and independent living. ...

Transition Toolkit 2.0: Meeting the Educational Needs of Youth Exposed to the Juvenile Justice System

September 2013
The second edition of NDTAC’s Transition Toolkit brings together strategies, existing practices, and updated resources and documents on transition to enable administrators and service providers to provide high-quality transition services for children and youth moving into, through, and out of educat...

Successfully Transitioning Youth Who Are Delinquent Between Institutions and Alternative and Community Schools (PDF)

September 2013
This paper explores the rationale and mechanisms that undergird effective transition practices to prevent youth from returning to the juvenile justice system and/or alternative school placements. Focusing primarily on the reentry and aftercare stage of transition, the paper outlines key youth and ad...

National Reentry Resource Center

September 2013
The National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance related to prisoner reentry. ...

Federal Interagency Reentry Council

September 2013
Established in 2011, the Federal Interagency Reentry Council is comprized of 20 agencies focused on the mission of making communities safer by reducing recidivism and victimization, assisting those who return from prison and jail in becoming productive citizens, and saving taxpayer dollars by l...

Mentoring for Success: Essential Elements for and Models of Mentoring Programs (February 2008)

September 2013
NDTAC's Greta Colombi provided an overview of the essential elements of mentoring programs generally as well as for youth who are neglected and delinquent. Representatives from two highly regarded mentoring programs that serve neglected and delinquent youth, the Aftercare for Indiana through Mentori...

Inter-agency Collaboration: An Innovative Transition Practice (September 2008)

September 2013
Transition has been defined as "a coordinated set of activities for the youth, designed within an outcome-oriented process, which promotes successful movement from the community to a correctional program setting, and from a correctional program setting to post-incarceration activities." As this defi...

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