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Getting Started With the Juvenile Probation Practice Survey

The Juve­nile Pro­ba­tion Prac­tice Sur­vey enables youth pro­ba­tion depart­ments to gath­er infor­ma­tion from its own pro­ba­tion offi­cers, super­vi­sors and lead­er­ship in 10 domains, includ­ing court con­di­tions, fam­i­ly-cen­tered prac­tice, incen­tives and race equi­ty. The sur­vey was designed by the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion as part of its pro­ba­tion trans­for­ma­tion work and is avail­able to any inter­est­ed juris­dic­tion at no cost. To date, more than 1,000 pro­ba­tion prac­ti­tion­ers around the coun­try have tak­en the survey.

Sur­vey Dashboard

Pro­ba­tion lead­er­ship in par­tic­i­pat­ing juris­dic­tions can view and ana­lyze their staff’s respons­es in a secure and user-friend­ly online dashboard.

Two sam­ple views from the dash­board show results from July 2022 through May 2023. Fig­ure 1 shows the dis­tri­b­u­tion of respons­es to a sin­gle ques­tion about incentives.

Frequency of incentives and rewards in working with young people
Fig­ure 1

Fig­ure 2 flags the items where respons­es var­ied the most, indi­cat­ing a need for addi­tion­al train­ing and conversation.

Pro-DATA offers leaders insights into needed training and conversations
Fig­ure 2

Sur­vey Content

The sur­vey itself con­sists of 100 sub­stan­tive items, orga­nized across the fol­low­ing 10 domains:

  • com­mu­ni­ty partnerships
  • court con­di­tions
  • fam­i­ly-cen­tered practice
  • human resources
  • incen­tives
  • pol­i­cy and practice
  • pos­i­tive youth development
  • pur­pose
  • racial equi­ty
  • staff engage­ment and support

In addi­tion to the sub­stan­tive ques­tions, the sur­vey includes a hand­ful of demo­graph­ic ques­tions. Respons­es to the demo­graph­ic ques­tions are used for fil­ters that allow pro­ba­tion lead­ers to sort and explore the sur­vey results by tenure, role, gen­der or race and eth­nic­i­ty. State-based pro­ba­tion depart­ments can also exam­ine results by geo­graph­ic region.

Sur­vey respons­es are anony­mous, and the dash­board has been designed to pro­tect respon­dents’ pri­va­cy. If fil­ters are set so specif­i­cal­ly that they would only apply to one or two respon­dents, the dash­board will not dis­play results.

Apply for Your Juris­dic­tion to Take the Pro­ba­tion Prac­tice Survey

If you are inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about using the sur­vey to under­stand prac­tice in your juris­dic­tion, fol­low the link below to sched­ule an explorato­ry conversation.

Learn about your juris­dic­tion to use Pro-DATA

Quick Links

  • Get a Live Demo and a Temporary Account
  • Visit the Pro-DATA Website
  • About Pro-Data
  • Getting Started With the Survey
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