Virginia

2017 RED VA State-Level Team 

Contacts: 

Valerie Boykin, Deputy Director of Community Programs, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice

Jenna Easton, State JDAI Coordinator, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice

Edward Holmes, Juvenile Justice Analyst, Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services

Monica Jackson, Juvenile Justice Program Analyst, Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services

Rebecca Kahila, School Safety and Discipline Specialist, Virginia Department of Education

Susan Reese, Senior Assistant Director, Division of Family Services, Virginia Department of Social Services

Capstone Description:

To reduce the over-representation of minority youth referrals for school discipline matters and students' juvenile court involvement through working with system leaders to change policies and practices, as well as to increase community and staff awareness of racial and ethnic disparities issues.

2013 MSI VA Team

Contacts:

Tracey Jenkins, Policy Analyst - Virginia Dept of Criminal Justice Services

Alex Kamberis, Acting Director - Virginia Department of Social Services

Laurel Marks, Manager, Juvenile and Adult Services - Va. DCJS

Ashaki McNeil, ReEntry Program Manager - Department of Juvenile Justice

Leah Mills, Senior Legislative Analyst - Virginia Commission on Youth

Capstone Description:

The VA Team will develop a state plan for improving outcomes for dually-involved youth based on data that they collect through:

- identifying differences in demographics, outcomes, and processes for dually-involved youth in comparison to youth involved in only the child welfare or juvenile justice system.

- identifying jurisdictions with high rates of crossover youth, service gaps and overlaps, and information needs. Based on the new data, develop a state plan for improving outcomes for dually-involved youth.

Capstone Update (2015):

The team contracted with Hornby Zeller to pursue a case-matching process of statewide data, with the primary data coming from DJJ and DSS. There will also be some case matching with education data. Data analysis is underway. The data collected as a result of this project will benefit several groups and initiatives in the jurisdiction, including the Governor's Children's Cabinet (working on school-to-prison pipeline and challenging schools), Statewide advisory committees for Vision 21 (projects related to children exposed to violence), Project AWARE (mental health services in schools), and Interagency Partnership to Prevent and end Youth Homelessness. 

2009 MSI VA Team

Contact:

Therese Wolf, Foster Care Program Manager - Virginia Department of Social Services

Capstone Description:

Develop an interagency case planning model for youth in foster care who are committed to the DJJ and are expected to return to foster care. As a result, help youth achieve permanency and successfully transition into adulthood.

2019 March RED Alexandria, VA 

Contacts: 

Uley Damiani, Judge Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court

Don Hayes, Police Commander Alexandria Police Department

Jocelyn Jones, Director of Program Services Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center

Dee Kirk, Regional Program Manager Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice

Brian Luhman, Assistant Public Defender Virginia Indigent Defense Commission

Mike Mackey, Court Service Unit Director Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice

Victor Martin, Principal Alexandria City Public Schools

Johnitha McNair, Executive Director Juvenile Detention Commission for Northern Virginia

Michele Mintling, Program Manager for Foster Care and Adoption City of Alexandria

Robert Strange, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney City of Alexandria

Capstone Description:

The team seeks to establish a clear understanding of the city's juvenile justice system through disparity mapping across multiple youth-serving systems. From the data collected, the team will then create a "lessons learned" training to disseminate findings, educate their key stakeholders, and determine focus area for future RED work.

2018 RED Arlington County Team 

Contacts: 

Brett Butler, Captain, Criminal Investigations Section Arlington County VA Police Dept.

Lauren Brice, Assistant Public Defender, Office of the Public Defender for Arlington County

Earl Conklin, Director of Court Services, Arlington County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

Tabitha Kelly, Director of Social Services, Arlington DHS

Laura Newton, Director of Student Services, Arlington Public Schools

Andrew Parker, Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney, Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office

Robin Robb, Judge, Commonwealth of Virginia

George Varoutsos, Judge Virginia

Deborah Warren, Deputy Director, Arlington County Department of Human Services

Capstone Description: 

The Capstone Project is focused on reducing the frequency and disproportionality of technical violation arrests. The team's main strategies include conducting a data analysis by race, ethnicity, gender, geography, and offense type; strengthening the use of incentives and sanctions as non-judicial tactics; revising current probation rules; and engaging system partners to improve communications and collaboration.

2019 TJP Charlottesville, VA 

Contacts: 

David Barredo, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judge, Virginia Supreme Court

Martha Carroll, Court Service Unit Director Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice

Jenna Easton, State JDAI Coordinator, VA Dept of Juvenile Justice

Christa Galleo, Probation Supervisor, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice

Joey Lewis, Police Sergeant, City of Charlottesville Police Department

Samantha Markley, Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Commonwealth Attorney, City of Charlottesville *Note* Samantha is no longer with the agency and is not involved in the project.

Marc Moore, Supervisor, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice- 16th District CSU

Hunter Smith, Program Supervisor, City of Charlottesville

Capstone Description:

Taking a trauma-responsive, multi-disciplinary approach, the Charlottesville Capstone Team plans to focus on bolstering the city’s family engagement efforts, creating a restorative program at all juvenile justice exit points, and increasing and improving the use of diversion practices. Through these efforts, the team seeks to take an equity lens that will reduce the number of technical violations and the number of Child in Need of Services/Supervisions (CHINS) petitions.  

2014 Diversion Fairfax County Team 

Contacts:

Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Director - Fairfax County

Erin Schaible, Deputy Chief of Patrol - Fairfax County Police Department

Jamie (James) McCarron, Deputy Director - Fairfax County Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court

Katrina Smith, Assistant Director - Fairfax County Government

Lori Winter, Unit Director - Intake Services, Fairfax County

Tracey Chiles, Unit Director - Fairfax County

Tracey Jenkins, Juvenile Justice Specialist - Virginia Department of Criminal Justice

Vickie Shoap, Restorative Justice Specialist - Fairfax County Public Schools

William Fulton, Sergeant - Fairfax County Police Department

Capstone Description:

The team plans to reduce racial and ethnic disparity at the point of referral through piloting a restorative justice program and redesigning the current intake process. The team is in the process of developing a risk/needs matrix for diversion decision making and will pilot the newly developed matrix.

Capstone Update (2016):

The team has made significant progress in facilitating multi-system collaboration, specifically between the Fairfax County Government, Fairfax County Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court, police departments in Fairfax County and in surrounding neighborhoods, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Department of Criminal Justice, and community partners. An MOU was signed for the restorative justice efforts, and the team helped pass HB541, which allows police records to be shared for the purpose of juvenile diversion. The team has also developed a juvenile intake disposition matrix, which makes use of the screening and assessment results from GAIN-SS and YASI. To reduce racial and ethnic disparities in Fairfax County, the team changed the diversion eligibility to increase opportunities for youth of color to be diverted - the maximum number of charges allowed for diversion was increased from 3 to 5, and removed restitution as a factor for diversion eligibility.

2018 RED Loudoun County Team 

Contacts: 

Pamela Brooks, Chief Judge, Loudoun County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

Margaret Graham, Director, Loudoun County Mental Health Substance Abuse and Developmental Services

Ira Holland, Court Service Unit, Interim Director, Virginia Dept of Juvenile Justice

Alejandra Rueda, Deputy Commonwealths Attorney/Director of Victim-Witness Program, Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorneys Office

Craig Schleiden, Captain - Assistant Division Commander, Loudoun County Sheriff's Office

Michelle Smith, Superintendent, Loudoun County Juvenile Detention Center Loudoun County

Valmarie Turner, Assistant County Administrator - Health and Human Services, Loudoun County Government

Jennifer Wall, Supervisor, Student Assistance Services, Loudoun County Public Schools

Capstone Description: 

The team aims to increase diversion rates for minority youth through identifying key decision points for diversion, establishing a collaborative engagement process, providing trainings to improve awareness of implicit bias, and improving the data management system.

Capstone Update (2020):

The team is collaboratively working to develop a uniform definition of diversion across the local juvenile justice system. In addition, the team has won a Title II grant from DCJS to bolster their capacity to streamline and collect RED data and to create universal confidentiality releases to share data. The team has also made progress in terms of training. They have engaged several partnering agencies, including law enforcement and SROs, to complete implicit bias training.

2024 YIC Newport News, Virginia Team

Contacts:

Courtney Wynn-Bryant, Superintendent- Secure Detention, City of Newport News- Juvenile Services

Angela Coleman, Supervisor, City of Newport News

Jered Grimes, Director- Department of Juvenile Services, City of Newport News

Avis Kellam, Programs Coordinator, Newport News Juvenile Services

Darion Mack, Secure Detention Supervisor, City of Newport News Juvenile Services

Andrea Mason, Program Coordinator, City of Newport News Department of Juvenile Services

Ananias Moss, Superintendent, City of Newport News

Brittany Silva, Compliance Coordinator, Newport News Department of Juvenile Services

Christopher Wilson, Detention Specialist II, Newport News Department of Juvenile Services

Capstone Description:

The Newport News team seeks to improve resident well-being through the implementation of a comprehensive Life Skills program and Multi-Tiered System of Supports, including daily life-skills groups for all residents, connection to affirming adult role models using daily wellness education, mentorship and crisis communication strategies, and stabilization efforts for highly traumatized youth. To do so, the team will partner with parents, community grassroots organizations, faith-based organizations and public safety entities.

2015 MSI Roanoke Team

Contacts:

Cathy Brown, Senior Director of Child and Family Services - Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare

Yolanda Conaway-Wood, Executive Director for Student Services - Roanoke City Schools

Jane Conlin, Director of Social Services - City of Roanoke

Colleen French, District 23A Court Services - VA Department of Juvenile Justice

Valerie Koeppel, Director - Youth Advocate Programs Inc.

Julie Payne, CSA Coordinator - City of Roanoke

Capstone Description:

To build a framework for information sharing so that crossover youth can be identified at the point of entry into the either the child welfare or juvenile justice system through: 

1. Solidifying a collaborative partnership through the development and execution of a MOU. 

2. Designating a graduate student to collect and analyze baseline data on outcomes for crossover youth. 

3. Developing staff training that focuses on the new information sharing process and the Collaborative Family Conferencing (CFC) process. 

2015 MSI Virginia Beach Team

Contacts:

Judge Tanya Bullock, Judge - Supreme Court of VA

Jobynia Caldwell, Director of Equity Affairs - Virginia Beach City Public Schools

Laura Kaiser, Police Captain - City of Virginia Beach

Olymphia Perkins, Court Services Unit Director - VA Department of Juvenile Justice

Aileen Smith, Virginia Beach CSB Deputy - Virginia Beach Department of Human Services

Gailyn Thomas, Deputy Director of Social Services - Virginia Beach Department of Human Services

Capstone Description:

To improve outcomes for youth that crossover from the child welfare system into the juvenile justice system, with a particular focus on educational outcomes. The project aims to:

1. Identify crossover youth who are having school performance issues. 

2. Develop an information-sharing platform between the child welfare system, public schools, court services unit, police and the judiciary. 

3. Create a family centered multi- disciplinary team and an individual education plan for each crossover youth. 

4. Enhance the police department’s data collection process for crossover youth. 

5. Provide the judiciary with education and tools to help promote desirable and consistent outcomes for crossover youth. 

Capstone Update (2019):

The VA Beach City Attorney's Office developed an MOU to share youth information, which was consequently signed by the VA Beach City Public Schools, District Court, Police Department, and the Department of Human Services. The MOU serves as a critical stepping stone in advancing the team's Capstone Project, and the team continues to improve identification of crossover youth and develop prevention strategies targeting the crossover youth population.

Capstone Update (2024):

Most of the team has moved on to other roles or retired, but the team members continue to work to prevent crossover for youth in their systems.