Dual Status Youth Initiative: A Technical Assistance Framework for Improved Outcomes

OJJDP's Juvenile Justice System Improvement Grants program was established to provide grants and cooperative agreements to organizations that provide programs and services critical to the mission of OJJDP, and organizations that OJJDP has selected for funds in prior years. This program will be authorized by an Act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice.

Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps will provide training, technical assistance and consultation to state and local juvenile justice, child welfare, and other relevant youth-serving organizations and agencies that will result in improved multi-disciplinary policies, practices and system reform. The intent is to build on previous gains made by the MacArthur Foundation's OJJDP four site demonstration program completed in September 2013. The proposed work will utilize a four phase technical assistance framework contained in the two new publications and was originally developed through the support of the MacArthur Foundation and the Models for Change: System Reform in Juvenile Justice Initiative. The framework consists of four phases: (1) Readiness Assessment, Collaborative Governance and Mobilization, (2) Data Collection, Management and Performance Measurement, (3) Practice and Policy Findings and Recommendations-Development of Action Strategy, and (4) Implementation and Evaluation. Training and consultation to state and local juvenile justice, child welfare, and other relevant youth-serving organizations and agencies are projected to positively impact outcomes for involved disadvantaged youth.
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