Growth-Focused Case Management: Achieving Desistance through Positive Identity Formation

Episode Description

This episode complements the release of the Growth-Focused Youth Justice Case Management Guidebook.

In this episode, Executive Director John Tuell engages in a discussion with Jonathan Cloud, the creator of the Growth-Focused Youth Justice Case Management (GFCM) approach and co-author of the GFCM Guidebook. Their conversation explores how GFCM transforms youth justice practices by prioritizing support for youth during their critical developmental stages, fostering positive identity formation, and promoting desistance from future offending behaviors. Jonathan outlines how GFCM acts as a guiding framework for youth justice practitioners, emphasizing its principles, practices, and transformative outcomes detailed in the GFCM Guidebook.
SEASON THREE: Episode Two | RELEASE DATE: July 23, 2024

About the Guest

Jonathan I. Cloud

Youth Justice Consultant & Developer of Growth-Focused Youth Justice Case Management

Jonathan I. Cloud has forty years of human services experience. He has worked at local, state, and national levels as a subject matter expert, consultant, and provider of training and technical assistance in the areas of child welfare, youth development, behavioral health, and youth justice. At the national level, he has served in initiatives sponsored by the U. S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Office of Justice Programs, as well as initiatives sponsored by the U. S. Departments of Labor, Education, Defense, and Health and Human Services. He has provided consultation and training on human trafficking and school safety for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the National Criminal Justice Training Center. He now works in partnership with the Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice providing training and technical assistance on the Growth-Focused Youth Justice Case Management framework, which he created to provide jurisdictions with an approach to fostering desistance from offending by facilitating positive identity formation in a way that complements the risk-focused approach.