Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative JDAI

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Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI)

• Getting Started
• November 29, 2006
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation

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Our Vision

• Youth involved in the juvenile justice system
  will have opportunities to develop into healthy,
  productive adults . . .

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Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
Purpose To demonstrate that jurisdictions can
establish more effective and efficient systems
to accomplish the purposes of juvenile detention.
Objectives 1) Eliminate inappropriate or
unnecessary use of secure detention 2)
Minimize failures to appear and incidence of
delinquent behavior 3) Redirect public
finances to successful reform strategies 4)
Improve conditions in secure detention facilities.
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JDAI Development
Bernalillo becomes a model site MO, DC, MN and
OR begin replication
Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform published
1st National Training Conference Multnomah and
Cook become model sites
JDAI Design Site Selection
Baltimore, IL, GA, NH Bernalillo begin
replication Santa Cruz becomes a model site
NJ, Pima, Clark, Washoe, WA begin replication
JDAI Planning Period (5 initial sites)
Dallas, Indy, LA begin replication IMT created
Policy/Practice guides initiated
2nd National Training Conference Santa
Clara, San Francisco, Ventura, DE begin
replication
JDAI Demonstration Phase Begins
Replication Begins in Santa Cruz
VA begins replication, These Are Our Kids produced
Ada, NM begin replication
JDAI Demonstration Phase Ends
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Cook County Outcomes
Results-Impact
Average Daily Population (1996-2002)
Youth Violent Arrests (1993-2000)
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Multnomah County Outcomes
Results-Impact
Average Daily Population (1993-2002)
Juvenile Felony Arrests (1994-2000)
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Santa Cruz Outcomes
Results-Impact
Average Daily Population (1996-2000)
Juvenile Felony Arrests (1996-2000)
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JDAI Sites 2006
County sites
State sites
Model sites
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Core JDAI Strategies

• Collaboration

• Reliance on Data

• Objective Admissions Screening

• Alternatives to Secure Detention

• Expedited Case Processing

• Strategies for Special Detention Cases

• Strategies to Reduce Racial Disparities

• Rigorous Facility Inspections

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• Cross-cutting Tasks and Issues
• Some pieces of the work affect multiple
  strategies. We think of these as cross-cutting
  tasks and issues. The most obvious cross-cutting
  tasks are the detention system assessments and
  the development and monitoring of an annual work
  plan, since these exercises will touch on all of
  the 8 core strategies. The key cross-cutting
  issue is reducing racial disparities, which
  requires attention and intentionality in the
  design and implementation of all core strategies.
  
• Trump Card!
• Sites will frequently identify low-hanging
  fruit, areas of practice that are quickly deemed
  problematic and amenable to change. These more
  easily identified opportunities for reform should
  be addressed whenever the site feels prepared to
  do so, regardless of the sequences and time
  frames outlined above. Picking low-hanging fruit
  provides opportunities to have early, measurable
  successes that build momentum for overall system
  reform.