The department’s policies and practices help ensure all young people can reach their potential.
Review a checklist offering 15 concrete steps that juvenile probation agencies can take to promote racial and ethnic equity and inclsuion. This checklist is excerpted from the Casey Foundation's 2018 publication on transforming juvenile probation.
Learn how juvenile justice systems across the country made progress in safely and significantly reducing youth confinement — especially for young people of color.
Take this free online course to explore what it means to expand opportunity for all, including following data disaggregated by race and ethnicity to identify, understand and propose strategies to correct disparities.
Data is disaggregated by race and ethnicity, and results are analyzed to identify decision points where policy or practice changes could advance opportunity for all.
Start using Pro-DATA, a free resource created by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to support data-driven decision-making and data transparency in youth justice at the local and state levels. This secure, online tool makes it easy to collect and analyze your department's data, while also allowing comparisons to similar jurisdictions.
Read about recent trends in youth justice in this policy brief by the Sentencing Project. One such trend is that racial and ethnic disparities in youth incarceration and sentencing have intensified despite steep declines in crime and incarceration.
Browse Maryland's detailed data resource guides for examples of how one state system has followed through on compiling, disaggregating and publishing data about basic measures.
Browse Harris County's databoard for an example of how one local probation agency compiles, disaggregates and publishes data about basic measures.
Explore national data on indicators that capture what children and youth need most across four domains: Family and Community; Economic Well-Being, Education and Health.
A high-level committee or work group within the department is empowered to follow the data to identify, understand and propose strategies to correct disparities.
Explore seven steps your organization can take to address racial disparities and expand opportunity for all.
Read an overview of the mission and vision of Pierce County Juvenile Court's Equity Team. This document is shared with all new staff members at the juvenile court.
Learn about the history of the Pierce Court Juvenile Court's Equity Team and browse a sample of the Team's work.
The department develops and implements policy or practice changes that work to remove barriers that keep groups of young people from opportunity.
Watch a six-minute video that tells the story of justice leaders and their community partners in Harris County, Texas, repurposing a juvenile correctional facility as a non-secure space for school, skill development and community connections for young people and local residents. This adaptation is part of a broader narrative surrounding youth justice in Harris County, moving away from punitive measures to more effective and positive approaches.
Take this free online course to explore what it means to expand opportunity for all, including following data disaggregated by race and ethnicity to identify, understand and propose strategies to correct disparities.
Learn how to identify strategies and target resources as one of the seven steps your organization could take to address racial disparities and expand opportunity for all.
Read about three strategies that are helping juvenile justice systems to safely and significantly reduce racial and ethnic disparities.
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