National Resources – Relevant Publications
Diversion
Addressing The Intersections Of Juvenile Justice Involvement And Youth Homelessness: Working With Girls, Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Arkansas’s Justice Reinvestment Approach, Enhancing Local Mental Health Services for People in the Criminal Justice System, Council of State Governments Justice Center
Barriers To Wellness – Voices and Views from Young People in Five Cities
Being Y-Ap Savvy A Primer On Creating & Sustaining Youth-Adult Partnerships, Center for Nonprofits, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beyond Bars – Keeping Young People Safe At Home And Out Of Youth Prison, The National Collaboration for Youth
Beyond Policing: Investing in Ofces of Neighborhood Safety, Center for American Progress
Breaking Down The Walls, Lessons Learned From State Campaigns To Close Youth Prisons, Youth First
Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study Of How School Discipline Relates To Students’ Success And Juvenile Justice Involvement, Council of State Governments
Child Not in Charge – Transfer Laws Are Not Advancing Public Safety, Justice Policy Institute
Dangers Of Detention: The Impact Of Incarcerating Youth In Detention And Other Secure Facilities, Justice Policy Institute
Emerging Adult Justice In Illinois: Towards An Age-Appropriate Approach, Columbia University Justice Lab
Engage, Involve, Empower: Family Engagement In Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts, National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
Evaluation Of Judicially Led Responses To Eliminate School Pathways To The Juvenile Justice System, The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Examining the Situational- and Suspect-Level Predictors of Police Use of Force Among a Juvenile Arrestee Population, Justice Policy Journal, Morrow et al
Excessive Stress Disrupts The Architecture Of The Developing Brain, The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
Fair Chance – Ban The Box Toolkit Opening Job Opportunities For People With Records, National Employment Law Project
Foundations For Young Adult Success A Developmental Framework, The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research
From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A science-based approach to building a more promising future for young children and families, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A science-based approach to building a more promising future for young children and families, Executive Summary, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Impact Of Prison Arts Programs On Inmate Attitudes And Behavior: A Quantitative Evaluation, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Implementation of New York’s Close to Home Initiative: A New Model for Youth Justice, The Center for Children’s Law and Policy
Improving Outcomes For Justice-Involved Youth Through Structured Decision-Making And Diversion, Georgetown University, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
Investing To Improve The Well-Being Of Vulnerable Youth And Young Adults Recommendations For Policy And Practice, Youth Transition Funders Group
Just and Well: Rethinking How States Approach Competency to Stand Trial, CSG Justice Center
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Progress Report, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Juvenile Injustice: Charging Youth As Adults Is Ineffective, Biased, And Harmful, Human Impact Partners
Juvenile Justice Guide Book For Legislators, National Conference of State Legislatures
Juvenile Justice Guide Book For Legislators – Disproportionate Minority Contact, National Conference of State Legislatures
Juvenile Life Without Parole: An Overview, The Sentencing Project
Justice Reinvestment Initiative Data Snapshot Unpacking Reinvestment, Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center
Justice Reinvestment in Missouri, Missouri Justice Reinvestment Task Force
Leading With Conviction: The Transformative Role Of Formerly Incarcerated Leaders In Reducing Mass Incarceration, Center for Institutional and Social Change, Columbia Law School
Leveraging The Every Student Succeeds Act To Improve Educational Services In Juvenile Justice Facilities, American Youth Policy Forum, National Reentry Resource Center, Council of State Governments
Making People’s Transition From Prison And Jail To The Community Safe And Successful: A Snapshot Of National Progress In Reentry, The National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC)/The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center
Making the Case for Status Offense Systems Change: A Toolkit, Coalition for Juvenile Justice SOS Project
Missed Opportunities: Preventing youth in the child welfare system from entering the juvenile justice system, Citizens for Juvenile Justice
No Place For Kids, The Case For Reducing Juvenile Incarceration, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Parent-Child Visiting Practices in Prisons and Jails, The Urban Institute
Pathways To Progress Global Youth Survey 2017 Economic Prospects & Expectations, Citi Foundation
Principles Of Effective Juvenile Justice Policy Juvenile Justice, The National Conference of State Legislatures
Project Slam: Rehabilitation Through Theatre At Sing Sing Correctional Facility, The International Journal of The Arts In Society
Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps Youth Disconnection In America, Measure of America
Raise The Age Report, Justice Policy Institute
Raise The Age Executive Summary, Justice Policy Institute
Raising the Floor, Campaign For Youth Justice
Re-Examining Juvenile Incarceration – High Cost, Poor Outcomes Spark Shift To Alternatives, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Reentry Myth Buster! On Repaying Federal Student Loans While Incarcerated, Federal Interagency Reentry Council
Research Brief: New York’s “Close to Home” Initiative — Lessons Learned, Research & Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Research Brief: New York’s “Close to Home” Initiative — Did it Work?, Research & Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Safely Home, Youth Advocate Programs Policy & Advocacy Center
Seven Out of Ten? Not Even Close A Review of Research on the Likelihood of Children with Incarcerated Parents Becoming Justice-Involved, Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy – The Children with Incarcerated Parents Initiative, CCSU
Staying Connected: Keeping Justice-Involved Youth “Close to Home” in New York City, Research & Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
The Changing Nature of Correctional Visitation, National Institute of Justice
The Future of Youth Justice: A Community-Based Alternative to the Youth Prison Model. New Thinking in Community Corrections Bulletin, National Institute of Justice, Harvard Kennedy School
The Prison Paradox: More Incarceration Will Not Make Us Safer, Vera Institute
Through the Eyes of a Child: Life with a Mother in Prison, Volunteers of America
Transforming Juvenile Justice Systems To Improve Public Safety And Youth Outcomes, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown University, Council of State Governments
Youth-Adult Partnerships In Evaluation (Y-Ap/E) A Resource Guide For Translating Research Into Practice, ACT for Youth Center of Excellence, Cornell University
Youthful Offenders In The Federal System, United States Sentencing Commission
Youth Justice Under the Coronavirus: Linking Public Health Protections with the Movement for Youth Decarceration,The Sentencing Project
WINNING THE CAMPAIGN: 2005 – 2020 State Trends in Fighting the Treatment of Children As Adults in the Criminal Justice System, Campaign for Youth Justice
Education
Addressing Race And Trauma In The Classroom: A Resource For Educators, National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems, Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
Are We Closing The School Discipline Gap?, The Center For Civil Rights Remedies
Arts-Based Programs And Arts Therapies For At-Risk, Justice-Involved, And Traumatized Youths, OJJDP Model Programs Guide
Be Her Resource A Toolkit About School Resource Officers And Girls Of Color, Center for Poverty and Inequality, Georgetown Law
Beyond Bullying: How Hostile School Climate Perpetuates the School-to-Prison Pipeline for LGBT Youth, Center for American Progress
Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study Of How School Discipline Relates To Students’ Success And Juvenile Justice Involvement, Council of State Governments
Career And Technical Education In High School: Does It Improve Student Outcomes?, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Educational exclusion: Drop out, push out, and school-to-prison pipeline among LGBTQ youth, GLSEN
Improving Outcomes For Children In Schools: Expanded School Mental Health, Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut
Navigating SEL From The Inside Out, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Officers In Schools: A Snapshot Of Legislative Action, Council of State Governments Justice Center
Prekindergarteners Left Behind: Expulsion Rates in State Prekindergarten Programs, Foundation for Child Development
Reframing School Discipline – A Strategic Communications Playbook, FrameWorks Institute
Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2021, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Justice OJP, Institute of Education Sciences
Restraint And Seclusion: Resource Document, U.S. Department of Education
School Discipline Consensus Report: Strategies From The Field To Keep Students Engaged In School And Out Of The Juvenile Justice System, Council of State Governments Justice Center
Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Gender Spectrum
School-Wide Restorative Practices: Step By Step, The Denver School-Based Restorative Practices Partnership
Supports for Social and Emotional Learning in American Schools and Classrooms: Findings from the American Teacher Panel, RAND Research Report
Understanding Implicit Bias: What Educators Should Know, American Educator
When policy and psychology meet: Mitigating the consequences of bias in schools, Science Magazine
Gender and Diversity
Addressing The Intersections Of Juvenile Justice Involvement And Youth Homelessness: Working With Girls, Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Be Her Resource A Toolkit About School Resource Officers And Girls Of Color, Center for Poverty and Inequality, Georgetown Law
Beyond Bullying: How Hostile School Climate Perpetuates the School-to-Prison Pipeline for LGBT Youth, Center for American
Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced And Underprotected, Center For Intersectionality And Social Policy Studies, Columbia University/African American Policy ForumProgress
Color Of Justice: Racial And Ethnic Disparity In State Prisons, The Sentencing Project
Educational exclusion: Drop out, push out, and school-to-prison pipeline among LGBTQ youth, GLSEN
embracing equity: Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Gender Injustice System-Level Juvenile Justice Reforms For Girls, National Women’s Law Center
Growing up LGBT in America, Youth Survey Report Key Findings, Human Rights Campaign
Hidden Injustice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts, Legal Services for Children, National Juvenile Defender Center, and National Center for Lesbian Rights
Implicit Bias: Why it matters for youth justice, National Juvenile Justice Network, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Implicit Bias, Community-Oriented Trust and Justice Briefs, National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
LGBTQ Youths in the Juvenile Justice System, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, a Project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation
National Coming Out Day Youth Report, Human Rights Campaign
Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: A Compendium, Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Restoring Justice: A Blueprint for Ensuring Fairness, Safety, and Supportive Treatment of LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Center for American Progress
Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Gender Spectrum
Sexual Abuse To Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story, Human Rights Project for Girls/Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality/Ms. Foundation for Women
The Sexual Abuse To Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story, Human Rights Project for Girls, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, Ms. Foundation for Women
Toward Equity, Training Curriculum: Understanding Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression, and Developing Competency to Serve Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Equity Project: Legal Services for Children (LSC), National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC)
Transforming Perception: Black Men and Boys, Executive Summary, American Values Institute
Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right: Why Zero Tolerance is Not the Solution to Bullying, Advancement Project, The Alliance for Educational Justice, Gay-Straight Alliance Network
Understanding Implicit Bias: What Educators Should Know, American Educator
UNJUST: How The Broken Juvenile And Criminal Justice Systems Fail LGBTQ Youth, Center for American Progress
UNJUST: LGBTQ Youth Incarcerated In the Juvenile Justice System, Center for American Progress
When policy and psychology meet: Mitigating the consequences of bias in schools, Science Magazine
Zero Tolerance, The Campaign for Youth Justice
Homelessness
Addressing The Intersections Of Juvenile Justice Involvement And Youth Homelessness: Principles For Change, Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Addressing The Intersections Of Juvenile Justice And Youth Homelessness: Principles For Change – A Brief Summary, Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Addressing The Intersections Of Juvenile Justice Involvement And Youth Homelessness: Working With Girls, Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Implementing Change: Addressing the Intersections of Juvenile Justice and Youth Homelessness for Young Adults, Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Missed Opportunities: Youth Homelessness in America National Estimates, Chapin Hall, Voices of Youth Count
Missed Opportunities: Youth Homelessness in America, Chapin Hall, Voices of Youth Count
Transforming Systems: Accelerating Collaboration Between Youth Homelessness Providers and Youth Policing and Incarceration Systems, Coalition for Juvenile Justice, National Network for Youth
Dual Status Youth
2020 State Ratings Report Human Rights Protections for Children in the U.S. Justice System, Human Rights for Kids
A Commonsense Approach: Immigration Policy Solutions, Supporting Child Migrants, The Opportunity Agenda
Addressing the Needs of Multi-System Youth: Strengthening the Connection between Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice, Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Robert F Kennedy Children’s Action Corps
Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems, Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
Better Way To Assess Developmental Needs In Early Childhood Systems: Mid-Level Developmental Assessment, Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut
Building Community Resilience for Children and Families, National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Building the Core Skills Youth Need for Life: A Guide for Education and Social Service Practitioners, Center for the Developing Child, Harvard University
Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice, Two Sides of the Same Coin, The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University
Child Welfare Practice With Families Affected by Parental Incarceration, Child Welfare Information Gateway
Dual Status Youth – Technical Assistance Workbook, Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps
Early childhood trauma, Zero to Six Collaborative Group, National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Eight key U.S. Immigration Policy Issues, State of Play and Unanswered Questions, Migration Policy Institute
Five Investments in Our Immigration System to Address the “Crisis” at the Border, The Immigration Hub
Framework for Considering the Best Interests of Unaccompanied Children, Subcommittee on Best Interests of the Interagency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children
From Conversation to Collaboration: How Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Agencies Can Work Together to Improve Outcomes for Dual Status Youth, Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice
Glossary of Terms Related to Trauma-Informed, Integrated Healthcare, NCTSN Integrated Care Collaborative Group
Hidden Consequences: The Impact of Incarceration on Dependent Children, National Institute of Justice
Immigrant Children Dual Language Learners, Child Trends
Immigration-related Policy Changes in the first two years of the Trump Administration, Migration Policy Institute
Impact of punitive immigration policies, parent-child separation and child detention on the mental health and development of children, BMJ Paedatrics
Incarceration and CPS involvement Fast Focus, Institute of Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kids Count Data Book State Trends In Child Well-Being, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Knowledge Brief: Is There a Link between Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice?, Models for Change, An initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Mapping The Gaps Between Expert, Practitioner, And Public Understandings Of Adolescent Substance Use, FrameWorks Institute
Missed Opportunities: Preventing youth in the child welfare system from entering the juvenile justice system, Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Child Population: Immigrant Children, Child Trends
Resilience and Child Traumatic Stress, The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents, International Association of Chiefs Of Police
Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience, The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
Systems Integration: Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice, The National Center for Juvenile Justice
The Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM), Engaging Court Appointed Special Advocates to Improve Outcomes for Crossover Youth, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown University
The impact of immigration detention on mental health: a systematic review, BMC Psychiatry
The Rights of Children in the Immigration Process, ACLU
Trauma and Resilience: A new look at legal advocacy for youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, Juvenile Law Center
Trends in Unaccompanied Child and Family Migration from Central America, Migration Policy Institute
Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview, Congressional Research Service
What is a Trauma-Informed Child and Family Service System?, The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
When Systems Collaborate: How Three Jurisdictions Improved Their Handling of Dual-Status Cases, National Center for Juvenile Justice
Other
5 Ways Juvenile Court Judges Can Use Data, National Council of Juvenile And Family Court Judges | National Center For Juvenile Justice
50 State Data On Public Safety, Connecticut Workbook: Analyses To Inform Public Safety Strategies, Council of State Governments Justice Center
Access Denied, A National Snapshot Of States’ Failure To Protect Children’s Right To Counsel, National Juvenile Defender Center
Better Solutions For Youth With Mental Health Needs In The Juvenile Justice System, National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
Juvenile Court Statistics 2014, OJJDP, National Center for Juvenile
Justice
Juvenile Court Statistics 2016, OJJDP, National Center for Juvenile
Justice
National Consensus Policy and Discussion Paper On Use Of Force
Unlocking Youth – Legal Strategies To End Solitary Confinement In Juvenile Facilities, Juvenile Law Center