New Resource, From Conversation to Collaboration

“Dual status youth” are often served by both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, although those systems may not be coordinating or collaborating to best serve these youth, their families, and the community. The RFK National Resource Center’s recently released whitepaper, From Conversation to Collaboration: How Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Agencies Can Work Together to Improve Outcomes for Dual Status Youth, highlights strategies that youth-serving systems can apply to begin developing a more integrated approach and produce better outcomes for youth and families, enhance system performance, and produce significant cost savings within communities. The paper also describes some of the challenges facing dual status youth, outlines the benefits of collaboration, and provides guidance for practitioners to begin cross-system conversation. This whitepaper, as well as our other resources, are available here!