Nate Balis, director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, talked about juvenile justice reform during a podcast produced by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The National Juvenile Justice Network recently awarded $350,000 to five state-based organizations working to educate policymakers and media about the safety of young people in the justice system.
Juvenile justice jurisdictions participating in Casey's Deep-End Initiative have outpaced reductions in confinement at the national level, according to a new report. Learn how these systems found new ways to ensure that young people, especially youth of color, recovered from their mistakes.
Two new webinars help practitioners and community-based organizations explore the use of diversion from juvenile court processing. The sessions support the Casey Foundation’s vision for juvenile probation transformation, which calls for diverting youth from formal court processing and probation supervision.
A new video recording reports on the state of JDAI®, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s movement for juvenile justice reform. The session captures the address that Nate Balis, director of the Foundation’s Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, delivered to 800 justice practitioners and decision makers at the 2019 JDAI Inter-Site Conference in Seattle.
JDAIconnect hosts free webinars to share knowledge within the field. The one-hour webinars are coordinated by JDAI’s training partner and span a range of subjects from JDAI core strategies such as expediting case processing to newer initiatives to engage young people in system reform.
In November 2019, teams from seven sites gathered in Washington, D.C. to learn about transforming juvenile probation culture and practice as part of the Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation asked two young Oregonians who came of age in the system under Oregon's Measure 11 to reflect on the lasting negative effects they still face in their 20s. Click here to read the interview.
This resource roundup — highlighting materials developed by juvenile justice leaders and researchers with the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s support — shares new knowledge and key findings from the field.
Lawmakers from eight southern states learned more about promising practices in juvenile justice during a recent gathering led by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and sponsored by the Casey Foundation.
