This session will focus on localized efforts to support youth who are returning to their communities with gang involvement, reintegration in school, employment, and housing. In addition, grantees will share strategies for adapting service approaches, expanding pilot projects, establishing partnerships, and sustaining demonstration projects.
Moderated by the American Institute for Research's Cassy Blakely, presenters include:
- Julia Alanen, Intervention Division, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Terrence Sheppard, Alameda County WERISE
- Debbie Dawes and Christal E. Carmichael, North Carolina Reentry 2 Resilience
- Reg Garff and Deann Mason, Utah Division of Juvenile Justice