Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success - Training and Technical Assistance

The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) seeks to serve as the training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to additional sites within the Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success initiative. As the TTA provider, NICJR will support states and local communities in building, strengthening, and sustaining cohesive, robust, community-based service networks for youth and their families, to prevent violence involvement and to holistically meet youth intervention, diversion, and reentry needs. Specifically, NICJR will: provide tailored support to funded sites and work with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the sites to disseminate lessons to the field, promote national models, and further momentum around decarceration and community-based continuums of care. Tailored site support will include developing site-specific TTA plans, providing virtual support to each site's planning council and continuum coordinator, conducting in-person site visits for targeted assistance, facilitating webinars with national experts on key topics, supporting sites; follow-up engagement with relevant experts, holding one in-person convening for all site representatives to learn from each other and/or engage with national experts, organizing opportunities for sites to visit a model program or engage in other in-person learning in smaller peer groups, and providing ongoing virtual TTA (including sustainability planning support). Dissemination activities include developing tools, research, and other resources hosted on a website; conference presentations; NICJR annual report; earned media, social media, and email listserv. NICJR will ensure that both site-level and national efforts address fairness, equity, and access to justice for all impacted youth and families, with a focus on addressing inequities of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, ability, mental health status, immigration status, age, and religion. NICJR will also equip sites to work effectively with youth and families, meaningfully incorporate their input, and communicate how their input was incorporated.