Overview Cameo House Community Options for Youth (COY) Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP) Sentencing Planning and Support Services Juvenile Collaborative Reentry Unit (JCRU) No Violence Alliance (NoVA) Overview Technical Assistance California Sentencing Institute Next Generation Fellowship Legislation Transparency & Accountability

Adolescence is a challenging time for most people. Teenagers undergo significant developmental, physical, psychological, and social changes during a condensed decade of time. We have all done embarrassing things as adolescents; however, we are comforted by our coming of age and the slow regression of those memories. According to a recent study , while 1 in 3 Americans have some contact with the juvenile justice system — most are cited for infractions. Youth who commit crime are in the…

New Year, New Opportunities for Reform California Progress Report, December 302011

New Year, New Opportunities for Reform Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, December 292011

Alameda County’s Chief Probation Officer David Muhammad demonstrates innovative and determined leadership through his new approach to serving juvenile justice involved youth. He employs a youth development framework that views youthful offenders not simply as a bundle of needs and problems”, but rather as individuals with real resiliency and strengths that can be incorporated into their plan for rehabilitation and reentry. In his recent keynote address at the California Wellness…

Volume 8 — No. 2 — Fall 2011 Check out the newest issue of the Justice Policy Journal, CJCJ’s Online Academic Journal at http://​www​.cjcj​.org/​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​_​p​o​l​i​c​y​_​j​o​urnal The Fall 2011 issue has 5 articles covering a variety of topics: 1.An Examination of Media Accounts of Child Abductions in the United States by Justine Taylor, Danielle Boisvert, Barbara Sims, Carl Garver 2. Creating the Youthful Offender in Connecticut by Alan S. Bruce and Theresa A. Severance 3.Fear, Views of Human…