JDAI Site Updates
New Program to Grow and Strengthen JDAI Leaders
As JDAI expands to 100-plus sites across the nation, the Casey Foundation recognized that effective and influential leaders – committed to juvenile detention reform as a means to achieving significant system reform in juvenile justice – are needed to accelerate the achievement of results.
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| 2008 Applied Leadership Network Team |
Consequently, it established the JDAI Applied Leadership Network in 2008 as a vehicle to enhance the knowledge, skills and capabilities of key individuals now working within the JDAI sites, using primarily a peer and collaborative learning model.
That model will be guided and informed by a faculty knowledgeable in leadership development and in the subject area of juvenile justice.
Network members will attend five seminars over the course of a year and complete a reform-based project.
The foundation hopes the program will "grow" highly skilled, visionary leaders working to strengthen and transform the juvenile justice system.
The inaugural class members are: