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The Transition Improvement Grant has developed this resource to support individuals who support justice involved youth with disabilities. It offers helpful resources, strategies, and best practices designed to foster a positive learning environment and enhance the educational experience for justice involved youth. This resource also focused on best practices to ensuring a smooth transition to post-school support that includes increased family/caregiver engagement, education, employment and mental health.
Incarcerated youth face many barriers to success when going through the process of rehabilitation. These barriers may include the individual, their family, school, peers and community, as well as biases and prejudices held against them. Although best efforts in implementation to ensure the successful rehabilitation and reentry for incarcerated youth have been put forth, many youth continue to fall through the cracks.
Let’s get started! The index on the left side of the page will help navigation to the sections needed as well as the ability to click on each page to access the subcategories, if included.
Researchers from the Center for Research and Innovation in Special Education at Washington State University have identified four Key Components of Succesful Reentry that include: Family Engagement, Education, Employment, and Mental Health. These four components encompass the support and knowledge educators and support staff should harness when supporting incarcerated youth to ensure successful reentry to home, school, and community.
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