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• In Baltimore, Police Mentor Troubled Kids (and Keep Them Out of Juvenile Justice System) [4]
  
  In Baltimore, Maryland's Eastern District, police officers are taking a proactive and community-centered approach to keeping families and neighborhoods safe.  Police officers realize that in order to be effective at their jobs, they need to build trust and cooperation with the communities they serve. And a police force in Baltimore is going one step further by actively working to find... more » [4]
• New Rules Protect Teens in Adult Prisons [5]
  
  The Justice Department released a landmark ruling on Thursday to help protect juvenile offenders from falling victim to sexual abuse in adult prisons. The ruling marks the first-ever federal effort aimed at setting standards to protect inmates, both juvenile and adult, in correctional facilities on the local, state and federal level. “The standards we establish today reflect the fact that... more » [5]
• North Carolina Funding Opportunity: Become a Reclaiming Futures Site! [6]
  
  The Division of Juvenile Justice and The Duke Endowment are pleased to release this request for proposals for four additional Reclaiming Futures sites in North Carolina. With funding from The Duke Endowment, this opportunity furthers the efforts of the North Carolina Reclaiming Futures Initiative to ensure that court-involved youths are screened for substance abuse problems, connected with... more » [6]
• DSM 5 could mean 40% of college students are alcoholics and more: news roundup [7]
  
  Juvenile Justice Reform How revision of the state budget could affect San Joaquin County (Record Net) Governor Jerry Brown's revision of the California state budget could mean the Division of Juvenile Justice would continue to operate, but its budget would be cut by $24.8 million. The governor is proposing to charge counties $24,000 per year for each person committed to a state juvenile... more » [7]
• Former Teen Offenders Speak Up, Make Recommendations to Improve Juvenile Justice System [8]
  
  The youth sent to the Texas Juvenile Justice System are some of the most chronic delinquent offenders in the state. Ninety-three percent are boys, 79 percent have unmarried parents, 78 percent are Hispanic or African-American, 62 percent need alcohol or drug treatment, 56 percent are from low-income families, 42 percent need mental health treatment and 36 percent have been abused or neglected. ... more » [8]

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• Addressing Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice, Part 1 [10]
  
  Moving Toward a Better Response to Disproportionality For over two decades, there has been a great deal of concern about disproportionate representation of minority children in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Research has confirmed that this disproportionality extends in many jurisdictions across the two systems and across race and ethnicity.   Despite the broad interest... more »
• Beyond "Scared Straight" – Moving to Programs that Actually Work [10]
  
  In the last couple of decades, we've seen an explosion of research that tells us what works in adolescent substance abuse treatment and in helping kids caught in the juvenile justice system turn their lives around. As a result, foundations and lawmakers have raised their expectations: quite rightly, they want to fund "what works." Which is why it's maddening to see "Scared... more »
• Reclaiming Futures Every Day - Other Resources [11]
  
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• Juvenile Justice Reform | Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment | Reclaiming Futures [12]
  
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• Most Effective Juvenile Justice Policy? Practitioners Say It's Drug Treatment [13]
  
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