Meghan Korn

Meghan Korn serves as a Juvenile Matters Supervisor with the Connecticut Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division (CSSD). She is assigned to the CSSD Training Academy Program and Staff Development Unit. Meghan has been instrumental in the development and delivery of training to CSSD staff, including Adult Probation Officers, Bail Commissioners, Family Relations Counselors, Juvenile Probation Officer, and other staff. Meghan has developed curriculum and trained on numerous cultural competency topics, including White Privilege, Understanding Latin Culture, The Influence of Media on Cultural Perception, To Stand or Not to Stand, and Foundations of Cultural Responsiveness 200. Meghan has completed several professional development programs for trainers in the field of cultural responsiveness. She has had the opportunity to conduct community workshops on Cultural Responsiveness, Implicit Bias, and White Privilege. Meghan graduated from Skidmore College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She received her Master of Education in mental health counseling (with a concentration in forensic mental health counseling) from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She also received a Forensic Services Certificate from the University of Massachusetts. Her graduate work included a focus on providing culturally responsive clinical care. SD

When Meghan Korn participated in the Transforming Youth Justice: A Leadership Development Program, she was a Juvenile Probation Officer II. Now, she has been promoted as the Supervisor of Juvenile Matters in the Court Support Services Division.

Capstone Project: The Color of Justice Revisited: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Connecticut’s Juvenile Justice System: The Connecticut Public-Television (CPTV) documentary The Color of Justice (2013) explored the problem of racial and ethnic disparity (RED) in Connecticut’s juvenile justice system. Statistics highlighted in the documentary that juveniles of color were arrested, sentenced, detained, and sent to residential placement at higher rates than their white peers. In 2017, CPTV decided to re-examine this issue to see how Connecticut’s youth of color have faced a new documentary, Color of Justice Revised (2017). Unfortunately, as the new documentary exposed, Connecticut’s juvenile justice system is comprised of a disproportionate number of children of color despite the changes that have been made to address this issue.