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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.

2008 Applied Leadership Network Team
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:

  • Central & Eastern Oregon
    • Molly Rogers, director, Wasco County Department of Youth Services
    • Jeff Justesen, detention manager, Wasco County Department of Youth Services
  • Dallas County, Texas
    • Michael Griffiths, juvenile services director, Dallas County Juvenile Department
    • Barbara Roberts, deputy director of institutional services, Dallas County Juvenile Department
  • Greene County, Missouri
    • Susan Cox, probation and field services director, 31st Judicial Circuit
    • DeShane Reed, assistant superintendent of detention, 31st Judicial Circuit
  • Indianapolis, Indiana
    • Gary Chavers, magistrate, Marion County Superior Court, Juvenile Division
    • Chris Ball, chief juvenile probation officer, Marion County Superior Court Probation Department
  • New Jersey
    • Lisa Macaluso, director of local programs and services, New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission
    • Andrea McCoy Johnson, deputy chief assistant prosecutor, Essex County
  • Norfolk, Virginia
    • Claudette Overton, director, Norfolk Court Services Unit
    • Antonio Sutton, deputy director, Norfolk Court Services Unit
  • Washoe County, Nevada
    • Michael Pomi, director, Washoe County Juvenile Services
    • Elizabeth Florez, program manager, Washoe County Juvenile Services


    For more information, contact Gail D. Mumford at gmumford@aecf.org.


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