Gap Filling

New Jersey (2013 MSI)

• • Description: Change responsibility for overseeing youths agencies and reallocate funding accordingly.

  • Contact: Melissa Latronica, Director, Sussex County Division of Community and Youth Services - County of Sussex

Pennsylvania (July 2012 MSI - Public)

• • Description: Introduce responsible fatherhood programming into Philadelphia's service array.

  • Contact: Rufus Lynch, President and Principal Investigator - Institute for the Advancement of Working Families

Eastern Band of Cherokee, NC (July 2012 MSI - Public)

• • Description: To build a comprehensive integrated juvenile justice and child welfare system managed through a Results Based Accountability (RBA) framework and adopting the population result of Healthy Intact Homes For All Cherokee Children to measure our impact through the RBA process.

    • Update (2017): The team created a tribal child welfare system; utilizing a Tribal Title IVE Plan Development Grand, the team was able to establish laws necessary for a comprehensive child protection and foster care system, as well as policies and procedures for an Integrated Child Welfare Team. In the process, the team was also able to amend the tribal juvenile justice laws to increase the age of juvenile delinquency to 18 years old. The team also help facilitated a RBA training for the entire tribal division of Public Health and Human Services, as well as staff from law enforcement and behavioral health. As of October 2017, the Tribe has successfully developed and implemented the Family Safety Program, which is a child welfare and protection program similar to a Department of Social Services in a state system, has 25 licensed tribal foster homes, and processed almost 1000 reports of child maltreatment cases involving over 1500 youth.

  • Contact: 

    • David Hutchinson, Trainer and System Developer - Shared Vision Consulting

    • Brently McCoy, Manager, Higher Education Department - Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

    • Tina Saunooke, Community Coordinator, Safe Babies Court Team Project - Zero to Three

    • Hannah Smith, Assistant Attorney General - Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

    • Christopher Weatherford, Social Worker - Cherokee Boys Club, Inc.

Alaska (2010 MSI - Public)

• • Description: Develop method of tracking data regarding youth from the Selawick Tribe who become involved in the juvenile justice system, and identify services that can help decrease their rates of recidivism.

  • Contacts:

    • Phyllis Carlson, Director Rural Education - Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

    • Patrick Hefley, Deputy Commissioner - Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

    • Michael Lesmann, Community Relations Manager - Department of Health and Social Services, Office of Children's Services

    • Barbara Murray, Social Services Program Coordinator/Juvenile Justice Specialist - Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Juvenile Justice

    • Stephen Williams, Program Officer - Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority

Nevada (2010 MSI - Private)

• • Description: Create a church-based adoption program and collect data on crossover youth.

  • Contacts:

    • Esther Brown, Founder/Executive Director - The Embracing Project

    • Raymond Giddens, Executive Director - Unity Village

North Carolina/Cherokee (2010 MSI - Private)

• • Description: Create and improve foster care placements and services (including services that will allow youth to remain with their biological families) for crossover youth within the tribe's jurisdiction, in order to decrease the number of youth placed outside of the tribe's jurisdiction.

  • Contacts: Patricia Long, System Development Program Coordinator/Director Juvenile Justice Treatment Continuum Project - Meridian Behavioral Health Services

Indianapolis, Indiana (2010 MSI - Private)

• • Description: Implement a nurse-family partnership program, a community health program that provides support and training for mothers pregnant with their first child. The program pairs expectant mothers with a registered nurse, who promotes the mother's health, proper care of the child, healthy environments, and parents' life course development.

    • Update (2024): The nurse family partnership program was successfully implemented and has now expanded statewide. Reissaus retired from Goodwill and NFP in 2015. 

  • Contact: Keith Reissaus, Vice President, Community & Workplace Initiatives - Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, Inc. (*note: Reissaus retired from Goodwill and NFP in 2015)

Alaska (2008 MSI CPI)

• • Description: Develop comprehensive results-based accountability measures for AK DOJJ.

  • Contact: Tony Newman, Senior Manager - Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice