Reclaiming Futures will be hosting an all-day workshop on October 10, 2011 at the the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) pre-conference next week, the Monday before the full juvenile justice conference gets underway. 

•    Define and describe the increasing challenge of substance abuse (and other behavioral health issues) for juvenile offenders.
•    Define and describe Reclaiming Futures as a standard of care to address this challenge.
•    Begin the process of assessing readiness and preparing to retool local juvenile justice responses to substance abuse and delinquency.
•    Take steps to assess community recovery capital and increase direct community engagement options at the local level.  

Can't tune in for the whole thing? Here's our agenda:

8:30-9:00 -- Introduction (Susan Richardson, National Director of Reclaiming Futures)

9:00-9:15 -- Why reform is needed – Reclaiming Futures' history and purpose (Susan Richardson)

9:15-9:45 -- What's happening in your court?  (The Honorable Anthony Capizzi, Reclaiming Futures Montgomery County)

How many youth in your courts have a substance abuse problem? What happens to them as a result of that, and how do you measure progress and/or success with those efforts?

9:45-10:30 -- Reclaiming Futures model (Dan Merrigan, Ed.D., M.P.H., Reclaiming Futures Leadership Consultant and Christa Myers, Project Director, Reclaiming Futures Hocking County)

10:30-10:45 --  Break

10:45-12:00 -- Reclaiming Futures as a particular kind of planned change (Dan Merrigan)

- Preparing: how to get ready (Mark Fulop, M.A., M.P.H., Grants and Partnership Development Director, Reclaiming Futures)
- Implementing: what the model involves; how leaders learn and work together to problem-solve along the way (Dan Merrigan)
- Renewing: what to do if you get stuck (Judge Capizzi)
- Sustaining: lasting changes implied/needed by the effort (Susan Richardson)

12:00-1:00 -- Lunch

1:00-2:30 -- Adolescent substance abuse 101 (Randy Muck, formerly of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA))

2:30-2:45 -- Break

2:45-3:30 -- Community engagement to reclaim young people 101 (Christa Myers and Mac Prichard, of Prichard Communications)

3:30-4:00 -- Investing in Reclaiming Futures – Overview of the state implementation model (Mark Fulop/Susan Richardson)

3:30-4:45 -- Integration and wrap up (Susan Richardson and Judge Capizzi)
 

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