A new resource, Dependency and Delinquency in SYNC, describes how courts can support community efforts to integrate and coordinate youth-serving system and improve outcomes for dual status youth, and demonstrates how these strategies have been successfully implemented in Newton County’s (Georgia) project: Serving Youth in Newton County (SYNC). This report, authored by Jessica Heldman and Judge Sheri Roberts, is part of the National Center for State Courts‘ Future Trends in State Courts 2014, an annual publication dedicated to key trends that affect not only court operations, but also society as a whole.
Jessica Heldman is the Associate Executive Director of Robert F. Kennedy National Center for Juvenile Justice. Judge Sheri Roberts is the Presiding Judge of the Newton County Juvenile Court and a member of RFK National Resource Center’s Dual Status Youth Practice Network.