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Special Announcement
CWLA is proud to announce the availability of the Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration: Framework for Improved Outcomes (by Janet K. Wiig, with John A. Tuell, 2004; revised, 2008). Built from years of collaborative expertise and experience, the newly revised 2008 Guidebook continues to use a comprehensive framework to guide state and local jurisdictions in achieving greater system coordination and integration for children, youth and families that populate multiple youth serving systems. The Guidebook utilizes current research, best practice, and highlights numerous examples from jurisdictions across the country that have worked diligently to develop new practices, policies, procedures and protocols that will serve to improve the outcomes for multi-system children, youth and their families.
The work and progress in the numerous state and local jurisdictions around the country that have partnered with CWLA has also been highlighted in Child Welfare & Juvenile Justice Systems Integration Initiative: A Promising Progress Report (by John A. Tuell, 2008). These jurisdictions have used the framework outlined in the Guidebook to develop statutes, guiding principles, protocols, procedures, legal analyses, new multisystem collaborations, and other reform measures to effectively intervene and interrupt the costly trajectory of maltreated youth deeper into the delinquency and criminal justice systems.
CWLA has worked diligently to improve the tools, resources, and publications available to state and local jurisdictions around the country and within the sites participating in the critically important work of the MacArthur Foundation's ModelsforChange: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice Initiative to improve outcomes for maltreated and traumatized children and youth entering our nation's delinquency systems. Due to extraordinary commitment and leadership of the many youth-serving professionals devoted to this area of reform, we believe there is reason to be encouraged about many of the developments highlighted in both the newly revised Guidebook and Bulletin.
 View online a PDF version of the Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration: Framework for Improved Outcomes
 View online a PDF version of the Child Welfare & Juvenile Justice Systems Integration Initiative: A Promising Progress Report.
Please contact Sorrel Concodora at sconcodora@cwla.org to receive a hardcopy of either publication.
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Hot Topics
Recent study finds that abused and neglected youth who are placed in group homes are two-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested.
Read the article, Juvenile Delinquency in Child Welfare: Investigating Group Home Effects
By Joseph P. Ryan, Jane Marie Marshall, Denise Herz, and Pedro M. Hernandez.
Immediate and Long-Term Impact of Complex Trauma on Children and Adolescents
Read the manuscript, Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents
From the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Complex Trauma Task Force; (2003)
Prevalence of Traumatic Stress Children & Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Read the Research & Program brief, Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions
By Julian D. Ford, John F. Chapman, Josephine Hawke, and David Albert (published in the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Research Brief; June 2007).
Foster Care Youth at Higher Risk for Criminal Behavior
Read the issue brief, Offending During Late Adolescence: How do Youth Aging Out of Care Compare with Their Peers?
By Gretchen R. Cusick and Mark E. Courtney
A Longitudinal Study of Psychological Functioning Among Juvenile Offenders: A Latent Growth Model Analysis
By Jennifer Wareham and Richard Dembo
Published in Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34(2), Feb 2007, 259-273
Order this article
Dependent Youth in Juvenile Justice: Do Positive Peer Culture Programs Work for Victims of Child Maltreatment?
By Joseph P. Ryan
Published in Research on Social Work Practice, 16(5) ,Sep 2006, 511-519
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