Capacity Building in the Juvenile Justice System
The current project APPA is conducting began in 1995 and built on APPA's
and OJJDP's earlier collaboration. The major tasks undertaken by this project
included the following:
- Appoint a seven-member advisory panel representing substance abuse services and juvenile justice, training, and youth advocacy professionals to steer development of project deliverables.
- Identify and highlight up to five innovative community-based programs that provide substance abuse services to youth in the juvenile justice system.
- Develop and refine three training curriculums and manuals.
- Develop and present training seminars:
- Developing a Collaborative and Comprehensive Plan To Provide Effective Substance Abuse Services for Juvenile Offenders (Systems Development). Systems development refers to initiation or enhancement of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration among all systems that intervene with substance-abusing youth, especially the juvenile justice and substance abuse treatment systems. Other systems that might become integrally involved include health care, mental health, education, child welfare, and others.
- Working With Substance-Abusing Youth: Knowledge and Skills for Juvenile Probation and Parole Professionals (Skills Development).
- Working With Substance-Abusing Youth: Knowledge and Skills for Juvenile Probation and Parole Professionals (Train-the-Trainer).
- Provide followup technical assistance to teams participating in systems development and site-specific technical assistance to individual jurisdictions needing systems development support.
- Conduct followup evaluation activities of the technical assistance and training programs.
APPA also prepared articles for publication in professional journals and highlighted the project at its annual and winter institutes. With the assistance of its advisory panel, project monitors, and numerous professional consultants, APPA staff developed high-quality publications, training curriculums, and technical assistance presentations. The products and services developed with these funds will remain available to interested professionals through CSAT's Addictions Technology Transfer Centers, OJJDP's network of training and technical assistance providers, and APPA's training and technical assistance and publications divisions.
| Previous | Contents | Next |