A new policy brief in The Future of Children examines two Casey Foundation priorities – children in foster care and children of incarcerated parents – and calls for better understanding what harms kids most and to identify strategies that help.
Leaders from New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Santa Cruz, California have earned the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2019 JDAI® Distinguished System Leadership Award, which honors a youth justice system leader who has achieved lasting juvenile justice reform in a JDAI site.
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A Mississippi delegation got a first-hand look at Cook County, Illinois' successes in detention reform.
On paper, the two leaders shared a goal: to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. In reality, their different perspectives coupled with unaddressed pain and anger stemming from structural racism threatened to undermine their work.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has released videos on four emerging areas of juvenile justice practice — youth partnership, credible messengers, restorative justice and healing youth trauma. The talks inspire practitioners to think differently about what’s possible within their systems. Visit the post to watch the videos.
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Two peer-reviewed studies highlight systemic responses that result in harsher treatment for youth of color — especially Black youth — than non-Hispanic white youth at the front end of juvenile justice. Read more.
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Led by probation officer Miquel Lewis, the Juvenile Probation and Court Services Department in Cook County, Illinois is implementing a staff-led effort to address racial and ethnic inequities in the juvenile justice system.
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The National Conference of State Legislatures has created an online database of juvenile probation laws, which includes analysis of trends across the country.
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How many children are in detention centers in the United States? What is the long-term impact of juvenile detention? This resource from the Casey Foundation has the answers.
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Attention juvenile justice leaders: Curious if your agency is ready for probation transformation? There’s now a tool for that.
