What Have the Reclaiming Futures Fellowships Learned?

As the first, five-year pilot phase of Reclaiming Futures came to a close, each of the participating Fellowships published a report that contains highly valuable information for any community attempting to improve the way its system deals with youth caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol and crime. (Reclaiming Futures uses professional "Fellowships" of judges, probation officers, treatment professionals, community members, and local project directors to drive change in local communities. The Fellows from all participating communities gather several times a year to share what they're learning.)
These  Fellowship reports are available on the Reclaiming Futures website, but at the Project Directors' conference last week, I was asked to repost them in one place. And why not? After all, they're not just useful for Reclaiming Futures communities, they're useful for any community that wishes to change the way it does business for teens in the justice system who need addiction treatment. So, here they all are -- 

• Judicial Report: A Model for Judicial Leadership, March 2006 (also published in the Juvenile and Family Court Journal of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) in its Summer 2006 issue)

• Justice Report: Juvenile Probation Officers Call for New Responses to Teen Drug and Alcohol Use, 2007 (also published in the Fall 2007 issue of Perspectives, published by the American Probation and Parole Association)

• Treatment Report: Improved Care for Teens in Trouble with Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime, 2007
  and, Key terminology for communities developing alcohol and drug treatment programs in partnership with the juvenile justice system

• Community Report: Moving Toward Equal Ground: Engaging the capacity of youth, families and communities to improve treatment services and outcomes in the juvenile justice system, 2007

•  Project Director Report: How to Implement a Model to Get Youth off Drugs and Out of Crime, 2007

Stay tuned for highlights from each Fellowship report ... And for even more resources from Reclaiming Futures, click here.