Since its launch as a pilot project 27 years ago, JDAI® has yielded a 50% decrease in juvenile incarceration across participating sites. Today, JDAI sites are widening their focus beyond just reducing the number of young people in confinement and actively promoting young people’s success and well-being.
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 has named Raquel Mariscal, a senior fellow at the W. Haywood Burns Institute, the inaugural recipient of its JDAI® Achievement Award.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has recognized an individual and a group as 2019 JDAI Power Users for their extraordinary contributions to JDAIconnect, the online community for JDAI® practitioners and people interested in youth justice.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has named Better Family Life, Inc., and MILPA Collective the recipients of its 2019 Gloria J. Jenkins Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to juvenile justice reform by a community-based organization.
Leaders from New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Santa Cruz, California have earned the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2019 JDAI® Distinguished System Leadership Award, which honors a youth justice system leader who has achieved lasting juvenile justice reform in a JDAI site.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has named Lynn Ausley, a member of the Juvenile Court Family Council in Pierce County, Washington, and Frankie Guzman, director of the California Youth Justice Initiative at the National Center for Youth Law, as its 2019 Natalie S. Bimel Award recipients.
A new article featured in an APA journal reinforces the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s call for transforming juvenile probation and highlights two jurisdictions that have made large-scale changes to juvenile probation in line with Casey’s vision.
