Youth

Announcements

School Discipline Project to Reduce Student Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System: Update and New Resources

The Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG Justice Center) recently convened the second round of multidisciplinary advisory groups for its School Discipline Consensus Project. Nearly 100 experts from such fields as school safety, behavioral health, education, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and child welfare have come together with youth, parents, and community partners to begin developing consensus-based recommendations to minimize the use of suspension and expulsion, improve students’ academic outcomes, reduce their involvement in the juvenile justice system, and promote safe and productive learning environments. Among the many issues being addressed is facilitating the reentry of youth from juvenile facilities back into public school classrooms and providing them with supports to prevent their recidivism.

Legislative Affairs

Webinars

Education and the World of Work Anchors to a Strong Juvenile Reentry Plan

On June 15, 2011, the National Reentry Resource Center hosted this webinar, which described the elements of strong educational programs in residential facilities, strategies for ensuring continuity to community-based academic and vocational programs, and the roles different juvenile justice system [...]

publications

Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

In this KIDS COUNT data snapshot, the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that the incarceration rate of young people dropped more than 40 percent over a 15-year period, with no decrease in public safety. The publication also recommends ways to [...]

Recent headlines

Common Sense Approach to Safe Schools

I have the privilege of serving as the current president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ). Our organization is the nation’s oldest judicial membership organization with approximately 2,000 members nationwide, mostly judicial officers.

Students lead march to end school-to-prison pipeline

By Alyssia Akers Detroit Free Press “More education, not incarceration! More education, not incarceration!” Hundreds chanted as they marched from Cass Park to the site of the new Wayne County Jail on March 23 to raise awareness about the school-to-prison-pipeline. [...]

Alternatives to suspension gaining traction

For more than two months, the school day for 12-year-old Rebekah Aylor means remaining confined in a cubicle that isolates her from fellow students.

“I sit in the chair for eight hours straight, almost,” said Rebekah, who is serving what’s called “in-school suspension” — or ISS — at North Austin’s Canyon Vista Middle School in th Round Rock school district.