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National League of Cities

This in depth article describes the government’s plan to increase public safety and improve outcomes for youth through Juvenile Justice Reform. The article is focused on the definitions of the policies and politics that are involved with Juvenile Justice reform.

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports

Established by the US Department of Education, this website helps to implement and provide Technical assistance to help nourish children with disabilities on a social, academic, and emotional level. This website contains videos and articles that give advice as to ways educators can help support children in need.

National Center of Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

NCSSLE has provided a number of in-depth guides and training products to help build and promote a safe and supportive learning environment.

NDTAC

This PDF from The National Technical Assistance Center for The Education of Neglected & Delinquent Youth focuses on the “four conditions for learning: 1) safety, 2) support, 3) social and emotional learning, and 4) engagement and challenge. The brief defines these condition for learning, cites relevant research, provides strategies to foster each condition, and offers a multitude of resources to further the reader’s knowledge and development of these conditions”.

National Juvenile Justice Network

This website includes multiple resources on educating educators and parents on reforms, and provides links to expert organizations that have an expertise in educational reform for youth in the juvenile justice system.

Addressing The Unmet Educational Needs

This detailed handbook is the second edition from the Center Of Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University. The fifty-page handbook breaks down the issues from multisystem perspectives, and provides evidence-based research and recent legal policy reforms to shed light on how to improve education for children of all needs.

Ohio Juvenile Diversion Association

The Ohio Juvenile Diversion Association (OJDA) is a nonprofit professional organization which promotes prevention and treatment options for juveniles and their families. Members provide informal/unofficial services that reduce the risk of future official/formal involvement with the juvenile justice system.

The Office of Child Development and Mental Health

An independent non-partisan, non-profit affiliate of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges established to provide consultation, technical assistance and trainings to juvenile and family court judicial officers and other professionals working with high risk children and their families.

National Crime Prevention Council

The NCPC provides tools that communities can use to learn crime prevention strategies, engage community members, and coordinate with local agencies to help keep themselves and their community safe from crime.

National Center for Youth Opportunity and Justice (NCYOJ)

The National Center for Youth Opportunity and Justice (NCYOJ) aims to improve life opportunities for youth through systems and practice improvement initiatives. Since 2001, we have translated research into policy and practice effectuating change that produces more efficient and effective systems, generates better outcomes for vulnerable young people, and maintains safety for youth and their families, youth-serving professionals, and communities as a whole.

National Association of Youth Courts

Publishes resources for a variety of youth and teen courts, helps organizations start new youth courts, and trains courts to develop their established youth or teen program. Also provides a searchable youth court directory.

MENTOR – National Mentoring Partnership

MENTOR helps children by providing a public voice, developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide and by promoting quality for mentoring through standards, cutting-edge research and state of the art tools.