Dual Status Youth Training Initiative: Building the Foundation for Improved Outcomes
The Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice (RFK National Resource Center), led by Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, is pleased to invite jurisdictions to apply to become one of up to six competitively selected sites to receive two consecutive days of training in Dual Status Youth Reform provided in each site’s own jurisdiction. The training is based on the four-phase framework developed as a result of more than a decade of field work, and detailed in the Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration: Framework for Improved Outcomes, 3rd Ed., and the Dual Status Youth – Technical Assistance Workbook (both available online).
The training will lay the foundation for selected jurisdictions to design, implement and sustain practice reforms on behalf of their uniquely defined dual status youth population. The training will enable each participant jurisdiction to begin to identify areas for improvement and develop a plan to enhance case processing and system responses in order to improve dual status youth and family outcomes.
More information and the required application can be found at www.rfknrcjj.org/initiatives.
All applications must be submitted by August 1, 2016. Jurisdictions planning to apply are welcome to submit an optional letter of intent to apply by July 1, 2016. All submissions and questions can be directed to John A. Tuell, Executive Director, at jtuell@rfkchildren.org or Jessica Heldman, Associate Executive Director, at jheldman@rfkchildren.org.