Description

Using the research, evidence and guidance presented in the newly updated Diversion and Alternatives Reform Team Guidebook (October 2023), this training (length of training event TBD by local interests and priorities) presents a detailed set of tasks, activities, and timelines that support state and/or local efforts to establish or enhance a comprehensive set of effective diversionary practices.

The training is facilitated by experienced facilitators with significant subject matter expertise and adheres to the principles of effective adult learning training. The Diversion and Alternatives Reform Team (DART) Initiative’s “Five Steps to Success” are featured in detail to help jurisdictions navigate through the preparation and formation of a collaborative leadership team, completion of an assessment and analytic process, formation of a detailed action strategy, implementation of planned action steps, and additional activities that lead to positive opportunities for enhanced practice within their youth serving systems. The DART Training will also feature an emphasis on the key tenets of Implementation Science to support sustainable and measurable progress of enhanced or new approaches and diversionary practices.

Audience

Juvenile intake administrators and officers, prosecutors, public defenders, probation, judges and treatment and service providers.

Goals

The goals for this training are to:

  • Review sustainable opportunities to preserve limited probation and court resources for the population of youth who do require ongoing oversight (right-sizing caseloads).
  • Ensure understanding of importance and awareness of methods to develop a multi-disciplinary collaboration of juvenile justice and community stakeholders necessary to build and sustain a comprehensive set of diversionary practices.
  • Learn how to minimize entry into the juvenile justice system for youth who may be held accountable more effectively through evidence-informed alternative services and community-based interventions.
  • Understand ways to maximize opportunities to produce, sustain and effectively measure positive outcomes for low and moderate-risk youth.

Objectives

Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Develop an effective multi-disciplinary collaboration of relevant juvenile justice stakeholders that will support effective implementation of diversionary practices.
  2. Identify priority areas for additional evidence-based approaches and responses to formal prosecution that protects public safety, holds youth accountable, attends to victim’s rights and restoration, and builds competencies to ensure reduction in reoffending.
  3. Develop actionable next steps to support your agency-wide practice enhancements that create a comprehensive system of diversionary practices to youth offending.

Learn More

For more information about this training program and pricing, please contact John A. Tuell, Executive Director, at jtuell@rfkcommunity.org or Jodi Martin, Deputy Executive Director, at jmartin@rfkcommunity.org.

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