Strategies, Models, and Innovations

Internal and external collaboration aims to improve transition planning

The Pennsylvania juvenile justice system decided it must go through its own transition process to improve the facilitation of transition services for this population of youth.

Formalizing Connections Between Corrections and Education: Maine's Reintegration Teams

NDTAC spotlights Maine's legislation that formalizes a specific procedure for transitioning students by requiring every school district to convene a formal reintegration team for each student who returns to public school from residential care in the State of Maine.

Arizona's Building Block Initiative

Part of a nationwide effort to combat disproportionate minority representation in the juvenile justice system, using community partnerships and developing funding strategies to implement recommendations.

State Plan Examples*
  Alaska
  California
  Colorado
  Hawaii
  Idaho
  Montana
  Washington

*Note, these plans are examples of what States have submitted to NDTAC and do not necessarily meet all of the requirements of the law. For more information, see NDTAC's article State Plans for Title I, Part D.

Further Reading

Collaboration Between Correctional and Public School Systems Serving Juvenile Offenders: A Case Study

The authors look at the extent to which collaborative interagency relationships exist and function between public schools and correctional facilities. This article examines responses obtained from surveys, interviews, and available data in a case study.

"What Incarcerated Youth Say Would Help Them Succeed: Can Extension Play a Role?"

The NDTAC provides a brief summary of a survey that was distributed to youth for community re-entry planning.

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

The challenges associated with successfully transitioning students from secure care environments back to their community schools and the planning, collaboration, and family involvement that help make it happen.

Comprehensive Responses to Youth At Risk: Interim Finding from the SafeFutures Initiative

This summary focuses on chosen sites' implementation of SafeFutures during the first three years of the initiative as evaluated against OJJDP's goals for the local demonstrations.

Collaboration in the Juvenile Justice System and Youth Serving Agencies: Improving Prevention, Providing More Efficient Services, and Reducing Recidivism for Youth with Disabilities

The possibilities of collaboration between youth services and the juvenile justice system in order to effectively reduce juvenile delinquency are explored in this report.

Collaborate to Educate: Special Education in Juvenile Correctional Facilities

Collaboration among education and treatment professionals is fundamental to the provision of appropriate special education services for youth who are at risk for delinquency and for those in correctional settings. This article directs attention to collaboration as a best practice approach to improving education and special education services for incarcerated youth and identifies core elements of successful education programs in detention and confinement facilities.

Reforming Juvenile Justice Through Comprehensive Community Planning

This publication outlines the Comprehensive Community Planning process developed by two U.S. Department of Justice officials and its results as tested in several communities nationwide. The goal of the process is to refocus attention on prevention and early intervention as important parts of a comprehensive youth crime strategy. The article provides an overview of the process and chronicles the experiences with it in each trial community, including process outcomes, new programs, and new legislation reflecting the Comprehensive Community Planning ideals.

Other Resources

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

OJJDP provides National leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization.

The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)

CECP is dedicated to a policy of collaboration at Federal, State, and local levels that contributes to and facilitates the production, exchange, and use of knowledge about innovative practices.

Strengthening America's Families

This is a Federal Government site providing the results of the 1999 search for "best practice" family-based programs for the prevention of juvenile delinquency and substance abuse.

Developing Safe Schools Partnerships: Spotlight on Juvenile Justice (PDF)

This 2-page fact sheet contains information from the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative and resources on developing effective juvenile justice/school relations.