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6 The Path Forward
Pages 70-79

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... First we present the recommendations and action steps aimed at improving OJJDP's internal capacity to guide system reform. Then we outline the recommendations and associated action steps aimed at OJJDP's efforts to assist state, local, and tribal jurisdictions and to collaborate with national organizations to promote reform.
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From page 71...
... Improving Internal Capacity Recommendation 3-1: OJJDP should develop a staff training curriculum based on the hallmarks of a developmental approach to juvenile justice reform. With the assistance of a team of external experts, it should implement the training curriculum on an ongoing basis and train, assign, or hire staff to align its capabilities with the skills and expertise needed to carry out a developmentally oriented approach to juvenile justice reform.
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From page 72...
... Recommendation 3-3: OJJDP should take a leadership role in local, state, and tribal jurisdictions with respect to the development and implementation of administrative data systems by providing model formats for system structure, standards, and common definitions of data elements. OJJDP should also provide consultation on data systems as well as opportunities for sharing information across jurisdictions.
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From page 73...
... to be juvenile justice reform leaders by supporting meaningful family and youth engagement, fostering partnerships, delivering strategic training and technical assistance aimed at facilitating reform, and ensuring that SAG members and staff are knowledgeable about the hallmarks of a developmental approach to juvenile justice. Action Steps for Recommendation 4-1 Year 1 (FY 2015)
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From page 74...
... This proficiency should include historical experience working in system improvement efforts. Recommendation 4-3: All applicants for technical assistance or demonstration grants sponsored by OJJDP should be required to show how they would use the assistance, either strategically or tactically, to implement or strengthen a developmental approach to juvenile justice reform.
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From page 75...
... Within 12 months selected states and localities that have implementation, and lessons learned that develop, in partnership with foundations, demonstrated an ability and willingness enhance the tenets of a developmentally a multiyear demonstration grant program to accomplish multisystem initiatives focused reform. Continue to add cohorts that incorporates the hallmarks of the to incorporate the hallmarks of the of demonstration grantees as the program developmental approach, emphasizes developmental approach into a reform is taken to scale.
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From page 76...
... Recommendation 5-3: OJJDP should establish and convene, on an ongoing basis, a Family Advisory Group to the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, composed of youths and families whose lives have been impacted by the juvenile justice system. Action Steps for Recommendation 5-3 Year 1 (FY 2015)
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From page 77...
... members of the coordinating council to results derived from coordinating council develop a strategic plan for collectively engagement, work with members of the improving outcomes for system-involved council to reinforce agency accountability youths. Based upon the hallmarks of for collaborative efforts through agency a developmental approach, outline a plans, reports, and outcome measures; plan that defines a common outcome; reinforce individual accountability establishes joint strategies; leverages through performance management resources; outlines agreed-upon roles and systems.
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From page 78...
... Recommendation 5-7: OJJDP should increase its capacity to provide training and technical assistance by initiating or capitalizing on partnerships with national organizations that provide training and guidance to their membership and recognize the need for enhanced training in the hallmarks of a developmental approach to juvenile justice reform. Action Steps for Recommendation 5-7 Year 1 (FY 2015)
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From page 79...
... The 2013 NRC report summarized the scientific foundation for a developmental approach to reform and distilled its implications for reform. This report sets forth a detailed and prioritized strategic plan for the federal government to support and facilitate developmentally oriented juvenile justice reform.
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  • hoc research
  • ojjdp staff
  • research rfps
  • curriculum developed

  • priority research
  • developmentally oriented
  • selected states
  • intended purpose
  • family advisory

  • national organizations
  • interagency agreements
  • outcome measures
  • core protections
  • ojjdp administrator

  • including funding
  • ethnic disparities
  • state advisory
  • accomplishing intended
  • tribal jurisdictions


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