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Welcome!
The Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice, led by Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, provides consultation, technical assistance, and training to serve local, state, and national leaders, practitioners and youth-serving agencies. In partnership with jurisdictions and communities across the nation, we guide and inform youth justice system improvement and youth outcomes through our commitment to adolescent development science, best-practice methods and approaches, and evidence-based programs and treatment services.
Learn more About Us!
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How Can We Serve Your Community?
Throughout the country and abroad, we deliver intensive Technical Assistance and On-Site Trainings through the use of seminal frameworks that promote and create:
- Dual Status Youth Reform – improve outcomes for children and families served by both the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems, while enhancing system performance
- Probation System Review & Improvement
- Alternative Responses to Formal Prosecution
- Research Informed Case Planning and Case Management Practices
- Dual Status Youth Reform – improve outcomes for children and families served by both the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems, while enhancing system performance
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Dual Status Youth - Technical Assistance Workbook, Updated Edition
The Dual Status Youth – Technical Assistance Workbook, Updated Edition provides practical guidance for state and local jurisdictions in their endeavor to improve outcomes for dual status youth and their families. This updated workbook provides access to a wealth of practical new examples of replicable products (e.g., Memoranda of Understanding, information sharing agreements, procedural narratives, multi-disciplinary team structure and operations, system performance and outcome measures, data collection and reporting methods, among others) that will support state and local jurisdictions seeking to undertake this important work.
Click here to access the Technical Assistance Workbook!
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Transformation of Youth Justice Events
Join us in the vibrant heart of Downtown Nashville for our two-day Symposium and supplemental half-day Training Institutes! Click here to learn more!
September 8-9, 2021:
Transformation of Youth Justice Symposium: Expanding Knowledge, Changing Practice, Achieving Outcomes
Want to present? Check out our Call for Workshop Proposals!September 10, 2021:
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Training Institutes
Have You Scheduled an On-Site Training in Your Community?
For more information about our training programs and to learn how to bring our expert trainers to your jurisdiction, please click here.New! Alternative Response Initiative Training
The RFK National Resource Center is now offering a 1 – 1.5 day training to support state and/or local efforts to establish or enhance a comprehensive set of effective alternative responses and diversionary practices. We look forward to bringing this training to your community! Click here to learn more.
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