Service Learning Manual Focuses on Juvenile Offenders
Recently updated and revised by the Constitutional Rights Foundation and the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, Giving Back: Introducing Community Service Learning helps juvenile justice professionals apply school-based, service-learning principles, goals, and methods to court-mandated community service. It provides skill-building strategies and materials to introduce juvenile offenders to fundamental concepts of community and community problems.
Treating Youth With Mental Health Needs
Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System provides a practical framework for developing policies and programs aimed at improving mental health services for youth in the juvenile justice system. It sets the highest goals for systems to work towards, summarizing what is known about the best way to identify and treat mental disorders among youth in the juvenile justice system, and offering recommendations, guidelines, and examples for how best to do this.
Engaging Youth Mentors
Recruiting Mentors in Out-of-School Time Programs: What's Involved? summarizes suggested steps for programs to use when recruiting mentors to aid youth in out-of-school programs. The brief also recommends resources for use during the recruitment process.
