Transforming Juvenile Probation Restructuring Probation Terms to Promote Success Juvenile probation term lengths should be only as long as is necessary to connect youth with any needed support and services in their communities and should be designed to minimize disruption to young people’s lives and development. Read More
Serving Youth Remotely Strategies for Practitioners This resource guide shares ways that organizations are delivering education, training, employment and mental health services to young people. It also singles out efforts aimed at helping all youth access and benefit from remote services. Read it now. Read More
Reducing Structural Barriers to School and Work for People With Juvenile Records This report shares how state policymakers can help dismantle education- and employment-related barriers for people with juvenile records. Read More
Funding Prevention in Communities Lessons From Evidence2Success This report aims to help community coalitions fund and sustain evidence-based prevention programs to achieve large-scale outcomes. Learn about the successes, challenges and lessons from sites that implemented the Evidence2Success framework. Read More
Kids, Families and COVID-19 Pandemic Pain Points and the Urgent Need to Respond This KIDS COUNT policy report uses U.S. Census Bureau surveys to examine how households with children are faring during the pandemic. Learn what these data reveal about the health and economic well-being of children and families across the country. Read More
Job Training for Youth With Justice Involvement A Toolkit The National Youth Employment Coalition has released a tool kit aimed at fostering meaningful collaboration between professionals in the federal workforce development system and the juvenile justice system. Read More
Building Equity by Supporting the Whole Student Findings from Case Studies of Two Colleges in the Working Students Success Network This report focuses on two community colleges and their efforts to build and support equity for students from historically underserved groups. Both institutions were part of the Working Students Success Network, a broader effort — spanning 19 colleges in four states — aimed at providing pathways and integrated services to help low-income working students succeed. Read More
The Effects of Training for Adoption Competency on Clinical Services With Adoptive Families Executive Summary This study examines the effectiveness and quality of an adoption-specific training model called Training for Adoption Competency. Findings indicate that them model enhances clinical practice as it relates to adoptive families, adopted youth and birth parents. Read More
Four Principles to Make Advanced Data Analytics Work for Children and Families This brief looks at the rise of advanced data analytics and explores the challenges and opportunities it creates for agencies. Learn four principles for the effective and equitable use of advanced analytics to develop better and fairer solutions for kids and families. Read More
To Adapt Interventions to Serve Youth That Have Been Marginalized, Service Providers Can Seek Funding From Public Agencies This brief presents research on the experiences of two neighboring jurisdictions that worked to implement an intervention called Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults (MST-EA). Read More
