Training

Denver, Colorado (2015 SJP)

• • Description: To develop training content for a multi-disciplinary workgroup to address the school-to-prison pipeline issue. The workgroup will include local law enforcement agencies, school resource officers (SROs), school administrators, community-based advocacy group staff, and youth-serving state agency staff. 

    • Update (2017): Janelle and her team has expanded the training audience to a school-community training that include multiagency representatives, including juvenile justice, mental health, and social services. They developed training curriculum to address how best to approaches to school-based incidents. The first "trial run" started in the summer of 2017 in the second largest school district in Colorado, Jefferson County School District. 

  • Contact: Janelle Krueger, Program Manager, Colorado Department of Education

Hawaii (2014 MSI)

• • Description: Integrate multi-system components into the various ongoing initiatives that she is a part of (such as doing MSI trainings, signing an MOU, etc.) and then hold a convening in Nov. 2015 in which all of these organizations will get together and present their initiatives, network, and learn from each other.

  • Contact: Laurie Tochiki, President & CEO-EPIC Ohana

St. Paul, Minnesota (2014 MSI)

• • Description: Create a training program for relevant child welfare and public school staff on information sharing between these two systems.

  • Contact: Becky Hicks, Supervisor: Foster Care Education - Saint Paul Public Schools Fostering Connections Program 

Idaho (Sept. 2014 Diversion)

• • Description: Develop statewide diversion guidelines based on the Models for Change – Juvenile Diversion Guidebook, implement pilot programs in sites throughout state chosen on a competitive basis, and sponsor a statewide training by CJJR.

    • Update (2015): The team has developed a collaborative relationship with the Idaho Juvenile Justice Commission, judiciary, juvenile probation administrators, juvenile prosecutors, and health & welfare. The team also organized training for the Juvenile Justice Magistrates Advisory team and the juvenile justice administrators, juvenile justice prosecutors, as well as court judges in 2015.

  • Contacts: 

    • Debra Hanson, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney - Canyon County

    • Sharon Harrigfeld, Director - Department of Juvenile Corrections

    • Mark Ingram, Magistrate Judge - Supreme Court

    • Debbie Stallcup, Director - Bonner County Justice Services

    • Jason Stone, District Liaison - Department of Juvenile Corrections

North Carolina (March 2013 ISCP)

• • Description: Implement training programs on information sharing throughout North Carolina.

    • Update (2015): The team created a joint juvenile justice behavioral health consent form that includes elements of federal and state laws/statutes, developed a template for data-sharing MOU, and published a Juvenile Justice/Behavioral Health information sharing guide.

  • Contact: 

    • Sonja Frison, Research Assistant Professor - University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    • Jessica Jones, Reclaiming Futures Project Director - North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Division of Juvenile Justice

    • Paul Savery, Substance Abuse Treatment Coordinator - North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services

Massachusetts (2013 YIC)

• • Description: Turn pre-existing monthly meetings into training opportunities and develop service matrix.

  • Contacts:

    • Nancy Carter, Director of Residential Operations - Commonwealth of MA. Department of Youth Services

    • Monica Ferraro, Regional Clinical Coordinator - Department of Youth Services

    • Robert Graham, Director of Residential Services - Commonwealth of MA. Department of Youth Services

Coalition for Juvenile Justice, District of Columbia (2011 MSI - Private)

• • Description: Reduce the number of status offenders processed and confined by the juvenile justice system by developing educational and technical assistance tools provided by CJJ that raise awareness how to address their unique needs (especially as crossover youth or youth at risk of crossing over). Technical assistance tools will be developed and disseminated during the Capstone period.

  • Contact: Tara Andrews, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programs - Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Massachusetts Team 1 (July 2011 MSI -  Public)

• • Description: Train defense attorneys and others on the risks of detention for crossover youth to encourage them to pursue detention alternatives.

  • Contacts: 

    • John Brennan, Regional Director - Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Youth Services

    • Craig Curtin, Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region - Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Youth Services

Minneapolis, Minnesota (2010 MSI - Private)

• • Description: Conduct a training an create a guidebook on inter-agency collaboration for serving cross-over youth, ultimately to use the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM) to create a more integrated system in Minnesota's juvenile justice system.

    • Update (2015): A CYPM introductory training was held in March 2011; approximately 250 individuals participated from 11 counties and state agencies. As a result of the training, a partnership was formed between JJC and Susan Ault from Casey Family Programs and CJJR to launch CYPM in Minnesota. While Cheryl  moved away from Minnesota and is no longer with the department, CYPM work continues in Minnesota.

  • Contact: Cheryl Kreager, Associate Director - NAMI Minnesota/Juvenile Justice Coalition of Minnesota (JJC) *NOTE* Cheryl is no longer with the organization.

Wyoming (2010 MSI - Public)

• • Description: Coordinate funding, trainings, and services of various state agencies to implement CYPM and expand community-based placements/services.

  • Contacts: 

    • Debra Dugan-Doty, Administrator - Department of Family Services, Division of Juvenile Services

    • Eydie Trautwein, Interagency Coordinator - Wyoming Department of Health, Mental Health/Substance Abuse Services Division

Alaska (2009 MSI)

• • Description: Train Youth (Peer) Courts on crossover youth and add this to the training curriculum. Connect Youth Courts with Foster Care advocacy group. Hopefully formalize a policy and procedure for using Youth Courts to hear cases in which crossover youth actions at group homes (like stealing from the home or pushing staff) are criminalized. 

  • Contact: Virginia (Ginny) Espenshade, Executive Director - Kenai Peninsula Youth Court