Juvenile reentry

During the week of April 12, 2024, the Youth Reentry Training and Technical Assistance Center sat down with representatives from Youth for Change (YFC), Sarah Feingold and Karen Eley, to discuss youth-led reentry planning.

During the week of Mar 29, 2024, the Youth Reentry Technical Assistance Center sat down with Youth MOVE representatives John and Brittany to discuss peer support processes.

On April 11, 2024, OJJDP Administrator Liz Ryan announced the inaugural cohort of grantees for the FY 2023 Building Local Continuums of Care To Support Youth Success initiative. Awards total more than $17 million to 23 grantees and 3 training and technical assistance providers.

Listen to an audio recording of the April 10, 2024 Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Council) quarterly meeting in Washington DC.

During the week of April 8, 2024, YRTAC sat down with Amy Bradshaw Hoppock, AMIkids Vice President of Behavioral Health. This discussion focuses on research funded under a Second Chance Act grant award that explores the impact of family engagement on the success of detained youth.

This weekly podcast series is part of Second Chance Month 2024. During the week of April 2, 2024, the Youth Reentry Technical Assistance Center (YRTAC) featured the work of Second Chance Act grantee, the Utah Division of Juvenile Justice and Youth Services (JJYS). JJYS provides a continuum of intervention, supervision, and rehabilitation programs to detained youth while assuring public safety.

Held on March 27, 2024, this webinar assisted eligible applicants interested in applying for the OJJDP FY 2024 Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program Solicitation. It provided a general overview of the program, the goals and objectives, a discussion about the application process, and a Q&A opportunity for participants.

During the call held on March 27, 2024, Administrator Ryan highlighted the expansion of OJJDP's partnership with AmeriCorps to support community-based programs that increase reentry services to justice-involved youth.

During the call held on February 26, 2024, Administrator Ryan highlights OJJDP's Continuum of Care initiative, which spans prevention, intervention, and reentry strategies that focus on improving youth outcomes and increasing public safety.

Held on April 4, 2023, this webinar featured a panel of young people talking about their reentry experiences with the goal of helping professionals better understand and help young people to thrive.

Administrator Liz Ryan highlights Second Chance Month and the importance of ensuring that system-involved youth have the same access to opportunities as their peers.

In this webinar held on March 24, 2022, a panel of data analysts discussed their experiences, what data lets them know reentry is successful, what information is critical, and more. This panel was moderated by Kim Godfrey Lovett, Executive Director of PbS, and Melissa Sickmund, Director of the National Center for Juvenile Justice.

In this webinar held on November 15, 2022 leaders from four agencies participating in a national training and technical assistance program discussed how they improved their agency's reentry data capacity and how the work they have done can be applied in other juvenile justice settings.