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State-Level Participants
State-Level Participants
2019 Length of Stay Policy Academy Maryland Team
Contacts:
Kara Aanenson, Director, Resource Unit, Department of Juvenile Services
Todd Bowman, Superintendent, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Brittany Dowdy, Re-Entry Specialist, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Laura Estupinan-Kane, Director of Behavioral Health, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Lynette Holmes, Deputy Secretary for Support Services, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
John Irvine, Director of Research and Evaluation, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Miles Lawrence, Psychology Director, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Lisa Nelson, Principal, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Wallis Norman, Deputy Secretary for Operations, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Andrew Tress
2016 YIC Participant
Contact:
Holly Fisher-Hickman, Founder/CEO, Learning-Healing Institute, Inc.
Capstone Description:
Establish a single-gender mentoring program for male delinquent youth returning to the community, focusing on vocational assistance.
December 2013 ISCP Maryland Team (State-wide)
Contacts:
David Ayer, Deputy Executive Director of Operations - Maryland DHR Social Services Administration
Janice Johnson, Director, Accountability and Data Systems - Maryland State Department of Education
John McGinnis, Pupil Personnel & School Social Worker Specialist - Maryland State Department of Education
Jacqueline Powell, Education/Health Policy Analyst - Maryland Department of Human Resources
Terry Shaw, Assistant Professor - University of Maryland, School of Social Work
Tracy Watkins-Tribbitt, Director - Foster Care Court Improvement Project - Maryland Judiciary
Capstone Description:
Sharing education data for foster children served in the child welfare and juvenile services, as well as sharing education data in the Interagency LINKS (Linking Information to eNhance Knowledge).
2013 MSI Southern Maryland Participant
Contact:
Michelle Nnorom, Functional Family Therapy Supervisor - Center for Children
Capstone Description:
Collect and analyze data on the effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy; determine what implications the results have on the services offered by their organization and possibly elsewhere throughout the state.
2011 MSI (Private) Participant
Contacts:
Carmen Brown, Senior Vice President - Arrow Child and Family Ministries
Capstone Description:
Implement Treatment Foster Care with a focus on transition services, wraparound, and multi-disciplinary planning to better serve youth.
2011 MSI (Private) Participant
Contact:
David Brown, Director of Education - The Good Shepherd Center
Capstone Description:
Family ecograms; positive parenting interventions to facilitate family engagement and prevent out of home placement.
2010 MSI (Private) Maryland Participant (State-wide)
Contact:
Ayesha Bajwa, Director - Choices, Inc.—Maryland Choices
Capstone Description:
Collect data on transition-age female crossover youth in the state of Maryland.
Contact:
Ryan Banks, Functional Family Therapy Coordinator - Center for Children
Capstone Description:
1. Gather data on the number of changes that a youth experiences when their placement is changed (e.g. schools, therapists, etc).
2. Create a collaborative court which will take these changes into consideration when making placement decisions when youth violate probation.
2010 MSI (Public) District of Columbia/Maryland Participant
Contact:
John Rosiak, Senior Project Director and TA Specialist - Education Development Center, National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
Capstone Description:
Draft an information sharing guide and implement it in Safe Schools/Healthy Students sites to help them share information more effectively with other systems to help improve outcomes for youth known to multiple systems of care. This guide will be distributed to Safe Schools Healthy Students (SSHS) sites in Maryland.
2008 MSI CPI (State-wide) Participant
*Note: This Capstone Project is no longer ongoing, as Marlana Valdez has retired from her position with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General.
Contact:
Marlana Valdez, Director, Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit - Maryland Office of the Attorney General
Capstone Description:
Collect and analyze data on crossover youth placement types and recidivism.
2008 MSI CPT Team
Contacts:
Donald DeVore, Secretary - MD Department of Juvenile Services
Guy Guzzone, Md State Delegate - House of Delegates
Edward Hargadon, Administrative Judge - Baltimore City Family and Juvenile Court
Francis Mendez, Deputy Secretary - MD Department of Juvenile Services
Kathryn Oliver, Assistant Secretary - MD State Department of Education
David Thompson, Assistant Director-Child Welfare - Baltimore City Department of Social Services
Carnitra White, Deputy Executive Director for Programs - MD Department of Human Resources
Capstone Description:
N/A
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD
2015 Diversion Baltimore DJS Team
Contacts:
Alycia Capozello, Lead Attorney - Maryland Office of the Public Defender
Richard Hart, Community Programs Coordinator - MD DJS
Michelle Mattadeen-Dixon, Case Management Specialist Supervisor - MD DJS
Quiana Muse, Case Management Specialist Supervisor - MD DJS
Leslie Shell, Assistant Regional Director - MD DJS
Capstone Description:
To increase the use of pre-court services for low and moderate risk youth through reviewing and modifying intake/pre-court supervision policies and holding weekly training and meeting with intake staff to provide case review and to identify front-end diversion opportunities.
Prince George's County, MD
Prince George's County, MD
2015 RED Prince George's County Team
Contacts:
Rex Barrett, Director of Security - Prince George's County Public Schools
Tara Jackson, Principal Deputy State's Attorney - Office of the State's Attorney for Prince George's County
Shanelle Johnson, Statewide DMC Coordinator - Governor's Office of Crime Control & Prevention
Capri Rankin, Juvenile Detention - Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Lyrica Welch, DMC Coordinator - Prince George's County
Capstone Description:
To streamline the school diversion process as well as track and analyze data with a focus on racial and ethnic disparity issues. The project include implementing a tracking system that collects information on school-based diversion program referral and outcomes, creating a central intake unit to implement standardized referral and assessment protocols, and providing training front-line staff.
October 2014 Diversion Prince George's County Team
Contacts:
Kwabena Tuffour, Assistant Regional Director, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Lyrica Welch, DMC Coordinator, Prince George's County
Capstone Description:
Reduce school-based arrests, recidivism, and over-representation of minority youth through the development of a pilot school diversion program. Key components of the school-based diversion program include developing MOUs with partners, establishing criteria for diversion eligibility, training school resource officers, and collecting data on race/ethnicity, rate of recidivism, school-based arrests, youth grades, and graduation rates.
Update (2018):
The team piloted a school-based diversion program at a local PG County high school for students who committed non-restitution misdemeanor offenses. School staff work with SROs to identify and refer eligible youth to the County Department of Family Services for assessment and services. In addition to collecting data on race and ethnicity, the team has distinguished itself by gathering information on students' social and economic status, sexual orientation, and language spoken at home to identify disparities and disproportionality in various subgroups.
Wicomico County, MD
Wicomico County, MD
2022 LGBTQ Individual Participant: Jaime Riley
Contact:
Jaime Riley, Director, Wicomico Partnership
Capstone Description:
Wicomico County seeks to address the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ youth who may be at risk of out of home placement or maltreatment, are already in crisis or at risk for crisis, or are at risk for involvement with the Wicomico County Department of Juvenile Services (DJS) or the Wicomico County Department of Social Services (DSS). To do so, the Wicomico County Local Management Board (Wicomico Partnership for Families and Children), DJS, and DSS will work in partnership to develop prevention and intervention strategies that address the specific needs of LGBTQIA+ individuals in a crossover model.
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