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Juvenile Reentry On any given day, approximately 60,000 youth are confined in residential facilities, including juvenile detention facilities and local and state correctional facilities. These youth typically face a host of barriers to their reentry into the community, and juvenile justice systems can play a key role in helping to guide and support their successful transition, reduce recidivism, and promote long-term positive youth outcomes. State and local policymakers, juvenile corrections and other supervision agencies, and service providers are more focused than ever on applying the research on “what works” to improve reentry outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice system; yet many systems struggle to implement programs and practices that adhere to this research and are integrated with the efforts of other systems that serve youth. With support from the MacArthur Foundation and Bureau of Justice Assistance, and in collaboration with nationally recognized experts in the field, the Justice Center developed a white paper that highlights the research that shows what works to promote successful reentry for youth who are under juvenile justice system supervision, and distills and synthesizes this research into four guiding principles. In addition to reviewing the paper, juvenile justice systems can use the research and resources provided below to learn about these principles in greater depth and to help identify and advance strategies for applying this research to reduce recidivism and improve other outcomes for youth in their own systems. Core Principles: In-Depth Research Guidance (Click to expand)
Core Principles: In-Depth Implementation Guidance
MacArthur Foundation Models for Change 1. Models for Change Publications and Implementation Supports 2. National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Collaborative for Change 3. National Juvenile Defender Center 4. Vera Institute for Justice, Status Offense Reform Center 5. Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, RFK National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice 6. Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice & Statistics (JJGPS) 7. The Juvenile Justice Resource Hub 8. The Fourth Wave: Juvenile Justice Reforms for the Twenty-First Century To sign up for the Models for Change news digest to receive information about juvenile justice updates, news, and events click here and enter your email address at the bottom of the page. You can also follow Models for Change on Facebook or Twitter.
Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
Read the Juvenile Justice White Paper
Read the Measuring Recidivism Issue Brief
Updates from Capitol Hill
Read the White Paper Executive Summary Visit the Juvenile Reentry page Return to the Juvenile Justice Project To learn more about the core principles, click the cover below.
Models for Change is a multi-state initiative working to guide and accelerate advances to make juvenile justice systems more fair, effective, rational and developmentally appropriate. The juvenile justice white paper draws heavily from the research sponsored by and lessons learned from this decade-long initiative. Reentry initiatives can use the white paper as a springboard for identifying needed policy and practice improvements and can access the wealth of resources and tools offered by Models for Change and its partners to help facilitate these efforts. Links are also provided to sites that certify juvenile justice program and practices that have demonstrated, through research, to reduce recidivism and improve other youth outcomes.
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