Towards Effective Family InvolvementReal Tools, Real Skills, Real Engagement
Wendy Luckenbill Co-Chair Family Involvement Committee, PA Council of Chief Juvenile Probation Officers Senior Recovery & Resiliency Specialist (for children, youth & their families) Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Today’s Presentation Section 1: Prompting A Sea Change
Section 2: Testing Transformation Strategies
Section 3: Key Learnings & Tools For Your Work.
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Workshop Goals }
Allow participants to concretely experience the precepts, learnings and tools that support the effective involvement of families of youth involved with the juvenile justice.
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Understand the theory and impetus for this innovative work, which is strongly rooted in the advances in children’s behavioral health.
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Acquire knowledge and tools to expand and enhance their own efforts to support the involvement of families in both their child’s juvenile justice experience, and in system design and oversight.
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Overview- Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice Family Involvement (FI) Work
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Developed a deliberate strategy which is responsive to cultural & environmental drivers.
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Engaged ALL stakeholders in a collaborative process.
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Produced products which have broad buy in & which synthesize all stakeholder perspectives.
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PA’s Family Involvement Committee (FIC) }
In 2007, under the MacArthur Models for Change- PA grant, a committee was convened to address the enhancement of family involvement in PA’s juvenile justice system.
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Led by a family advocate leader, the committee recruited family & juvenile justice leaders develop a plan & implement recommendations.
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This group still meets, now co-led by the family leader & a chief juvenile probation officer & under the auspices of the PA Council of Chief Juvenile Probation Officers.
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PA Joint Policy Statement on Mental Health/Juvenile Justice, 2006 Excerpt: ‌the MH/JJ Work Group is committed to implementing policies that promote the early identification of youth with mental health & co-occurring substance abuse needs, appropriate diversion out of the juvenile justice system, & referral to effective, evidence-based treatment that involves the family in both the planning for & delivery of services. Family Involvement 21. Families engage with all relevant child-serving systems in the development & implementation of comprehensive treatment & aftercare plans for their children. 22. All services are child-centered, family focused, community-based, multi-system & collaborative, culturally competent & offered in the least restrictive/intrusive setting as possible, & these CASSP principles are followed in all treatment planning & implementation. http://www.modelsforchange.net/publications/142
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PA JJ FI Achievement TimeLine }
2007- Models for Change-PA (MfC-PA) FI Subcommittee convened
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2008- FI Subcmte begins Monograph inc. Focus Groups (200 p)
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2008- FI Subcmte adopted as PA Council of Chief Juvenile Probation Officers’s (PCCJPO)Balanced & Restorative Justice Implementation Cmte
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2009- FI Subcommittee/Workgroup publishes the monograph- Family Involvement in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System.
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2010- Subcommittee/Workgroup is elevated to full PCCJPO Cmte
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2011- MacArthur Models for Change ends: Ø 3 Regional Forums on the monograph findings & recommendations Ø 3 County JPO pilots of original Family Involvement Curriculum Ø FI Adopted as Core Component of PA Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Strategy (JJSES) Ø Publication- A Family Guide to Pennsylvania’s JJ System Ø National Recognition in CJJR Family Engagement Research Paper & invitations to present on PA’s FI to national audiences (CJJR/OJJDP wkgrp, System of Care Trng, & OJJDP conference.)
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2012- System Products & Policy Enhancement Ø Publication- A Family Guide to Pennsylvania’s JJ System Ø 2011 Pilot Curriculum Outcomes Report Ø 20 Family Advocate & Juvenile Justice Practitioners Trained as FI Curric. Training Teams Ø Curriculum Adopted by CJJTR, PA JJ Trng. Arm Ø FI Curric to Expanded New Audience- Juvenile Defenders Association of PA Ø Chief’s Council addressing FI in revision of Juvenile Court Standards Ø Publication: Models for Change Innovation Brief: Strengthening the Role of Families in Juvenile Justice (PA Model)
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2013- Continued State Level Reinforcement of Emerging Tools, Practice and Policy
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Systemic Reform- PA Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Framework
Stage Two Initiation Stage One Readiness • • • •
Intro To EBP Training Organizational Readiness Cost Analysis Stakeholder Engagement
• Policy Alignment • Dashboard Measures • EBP Service Contracts
Stage Three Behavioral Change
Proficiency
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Motivational Interviewing YLS Risk/Need Assessment MAYSI Screen Detention Assessment Case Plan Development Structured Decision Making Inter-rater Reliability
• Skill Building & Tools • Cognitive Behavioral Programming • Service Provider AlignmentStandardized Program Evaluation Protocol (SPEP) • Evidence-based Programming & Interventions • Responsivity Tools • Graduated Responses
Delinquency Prevention
Diversion
Family Involvement Training Data Driven Decision Making Continuous Quality Improvement
Stage Four Refinement
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Strategic Roll-Out- PA Juvenile Justice FI }
Dialogue
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Review of Practice, Research & Policy
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Dissemination of New Family Involvement Ideas
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Development of Tools, Models, Resources, Assessments & Benchmarks
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Alignment w/ Key JJ System Reform Trends
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Ongoing Monitoring & Response to System Initiatives, Needs & Related Products
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Galvanizing a Cadre of Champions
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PA JJ FI Definitions }
Family members define who its members are & are not.
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Family Engagement (FE) is what is used to support Family Involvement (FI).
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Family Involvement in Juvenile Justice is empowering families, based on their strengths, to have an active role in their child’s disposition & treatment.
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Tool- A Monograph to Document Issues & Ideas
â€œâ€Śwhat has yet to be developed is the system-wide. adoption of effective, evidence-based strategies & services that support the family role at both the individual child & the larger policy & planning levels.â€? Intro, pp 5
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Environmental Scan- Evidence Based Practices that Support FI in JJ }
Family Group Decision Making
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Children’s System of Care (SAMSHA)
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High Fidelity Wraparound
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Family Peer Support
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Family Finding
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Motivational Interviewing
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Multi-systemic Therapy
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Functional Family Therapy
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Therapeutic Foster Care Homes
PA FI Monograph- Common Themes Interviewed16 population specific focus groups totaling 200 stakeholders }
Availability & Access to Effective Early Prevention & Intervention
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Communicating Respect
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Juvenile Court Policy & Practice
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Statewide Policy & Oversight
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The Family Lens
The Juvenile Justice Lens Not a child serving system, but part of the judicial system, & responsible for enforcing law & order, as well as the welfare of youth in their care.
Shameless, Showtime.com
London Riot, 2011 Source: www.journeyetc.com
PA Principles of FI in Juvenile Justice • Effective & authentic family involvement supports the principles & practice of balanced & restorative justice & engages the family & juvenile justice system together with the youth in repairing the harm & moving the youth to become a competent & responsible community member.
Family involvement is predicated on the recognition that the family is a child’s primary emotional, social, cultural, & spiritual resource.
Families are involved by the inherent nature of their role, & the quality of their involvement hinges on a dynamic interaction of personal & environmental factors.
All families will act in the best interest of their child, & fulfill their role, when they have the knowledge, skills, & supports necessary to provide ongoing & developmentally appropriate guidance & interaction.
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Where families are unable to act in the best interest of their child, this should be seen as a complex phenomenon that the family would choose to counteract, if an avenue to do so presented itself.
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Positive family engagement involves a discrete set of approaches & services that systems can provide to families to assist them in meeting their family’s needs, including in helping them make the best use of system & community resources.
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A juvenile justice system committed to family involvement ensures that there are flexible & authentic opportunities for families to partner in the design, implementation, & monitoring of their child’s plan, as well as juvenile justice system policy, program, & practices which support responsive, effective outcomes for youth. Source: PA FI Monograph 16
THE APRICOT
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Dried Apricots
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Fresh Apricots
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Amaretti Lazzaroni Cookies
According to legend, almost three centuries ago, the Cardinal of Milan unexpectedly visited the town of Saronno in Italy. To honor him, two young lovers, Giuseppe & Rosalina, quickly baked up a mixture of sugar & egg whites, & lacking flour, ground apricot kernels, creating crisp, airy cookies with an unusual bittersweet flavor, which they wrapped in pairs to symbolize their love.�
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Amaretti Cookies
Ingredients: • Sugar • Egg Whites • Apricot Kernels (20%) 21
Shifting Beliefs & Attitudes, or who’s dysfunctional & resistant anyway?
Ciara Scanlan , Aran Project 2009
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Supporting Involvement of All Families }
A universal level of approaches applicable to all families based on respect, shared information, & authentic opportunities for input.
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A secondary level of approaches which addresses families who need additional supports that encourages trust, participation in the process, & provides help with their child.
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A tertiary level of approaches which addresses families who have multiple challenges & are having difficulty effectively & meaningfully participating in the process, or act in ways that appear detrimental to the child’s supervision & treatment. 23
Acknowledging Trauma in Families }
“Where families are unable to act in the best interest of their child, this should be seen as a complex phenomenon that the family would choose to counteract, if an avenue to do so presented itself. “ Source: PA FI in JJ Monograph
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Monograph- Lack of trust from past systems experience, fear of exposure, traumatic experiences that are triggered by the lack of control.
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CSG Webinar- Child Trauma & Juvenile Justice: Prevalence, Impact & Treatment, Gene Griffin- 2012 24
Acknowledging Vicarious Trauma in Staff }
Vicarious traumatization is a transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients & their reports of traumatic experiences.
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The individual helper's personal history (including prior traumatic experiences), coping strategies, & support network, among other things, all interact with his or her situation…to give rise to individual expressions of vicarious trauma.
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Must acknowledge the cognitive & emotional dissonance between the juvenile justice practitioner’s actual experience with family engagement, & the ideal of practice being expected. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_traumatization 25
PA FI Tool Development Aligned with: } PA FI Monograph- the Sextant }
PA Juvenile Justice System Law, Policy & Program
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Evidence and Promising Family Involvement from Juvenile Justice & Other Systems
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Stakeholder Buy-in
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Tool- PA FI Juvenile Probation Officer Curriculum Shifting Attitudes & Beliefs with Training: }
Written under FIC supervision and written by family advocate & practitioners.
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Field Tested with 3 Local Probation Departments
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Developed Report on Outcomes from 2011 Pilots
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Trained 20 Family Advocate & Juvenile Justice Practitioners as FI Curric. Trainers
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Established as part of our JJ training entity- Center for Juvenile Justice Training & Research with Accompanying Funding Process
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FI Curriculum Training Objectives 1) Understand how family involvement is incorporated within PA’s balanced & restorative juvenile justice model.
2) Understand that positive outcomes are possible for families if they have the knowledge, skills, & supports they need.
3) Explain the benefits of effective family involvement for youth, families, juvenile court, victims, & the community.
4) Understand that children will always be a part of their family.
5) Understand what families want from the juvenile justice system.
6) Explain how a family’s strengths support & needs challenge their participation.
7) Understand how collaborating with families enhances the JJ system’s overall mission of aiding families to regaining appropriate control of their children’s behavior. 8) Understand how to help families identify & use their strengths to actively be engaged in the process & participate in their child’s experience. 9) Understand how to help families access services & supports. Source: PA Family Involvement JPO Curriculum 28
Family Engagement Considerations }
Is the family comfortable working with the Juvenile Justice System?
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Does the family understand their role in helping their child during the child’s Juvenile Justice involvement?
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Is the family comfortable working with other child serving systems (school, mental health/D&A) , & do they see those systems as resources?
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Does the family have existing natural supports (i.e. family, community, church) which they are can rely on?
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Does the family have existing formal supports (i.e. mental, substance abuse services, parenting training & support, respite, family peer advocates) which they believe are effective? Source: PA Family Involvement JPO Curriculum
Planning & Implementing Family Involvement: A Worksheet Supportive Family Involvement Measures (9)
I currently do this (check box)
Factors that support me in doing this measure.
Factors that challenge me in doing this measure.
Next Steps (check box)
I immediately contact families to introduce myself, confirm the intake interview date, & provide my contact information.
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Participants fill in, e.g. I have a cell phone that families can reach me on when I am out of the office.
Participants fill in e.g. families don’t have phones.
q Already Do & it’s OK q Improve/Increase q Begin in Next 3 Mo. q Implement in Future
Other Measures Þ
N/A Frequently Sometimes Never
I explain the steps in the process, including assessment, case plan development, & what to expect for a diversionary program or a court appearance, as applicable. I describe to families how they might choose or be assigned legal representation for their child. I assess & engage families in discussion as to their need for support during the intake process & refer them to appropriate resources such as programs, mentors &/or advocates as available. Source: PA Family Involvement JPO Curriculum
FI Curriculum Pilot Outcomes Report •
2011- 3 Pilot FI Curriculum training conducted with 79 juvenile probation officers (5 counties represented) by team of family leader & juvenile probation practitioner, co-authors of the curriculum.
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Participants completed assessments on their perceptions of family involvement before & after the training.
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FI committee member/doctoral student developed statistical analysis of assessment outcomes.
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Question One: “The importance of the role of families is a principle of Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system.”
Some Very Much
Pre-test 32.9 63.4
Post-test 6.1 90.2
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Question Seven: “The benefits of family involvement in the court process outweigh the drawbacks.”
Pre-test 1.2
Post-test 1.2
Some
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15.9
Very much
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79.3
Not at all
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Tool- Family Guide to PA’s JJ System Supporting Family Involvement with Information
• Developed by the Chiefs FI Committee • Took 3 years ! • Took 3 authors ! • Took 2 editorial workgroups! • Reviewed & endorsed by families, judges, chiefs, providers, & state juvenile justice leadership!
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Understanding Key Information What did you say?
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Family Guide Contents
Introduction
Formal Processing
How to Use This Guide
What Could Happen at the
Juvenile Justice System-How is it Different?
Disposition Hearing? A Families Roles & Responsibilities
Pa’s Juvenile Justice System Explained
Pa’s Juvenile Justice Flowchart
The People You Meet
Advocating For Your Child
When Your Child Has Been Arrested
Services & Supports for Families
What’s Next? Home or Detention?
References & Resources
Juvenile Court Intake
Acknowledgements, Contributions
Informal Supervision
More Information
Juvenile Court Involvement & Your
Child’s Future Terms Used in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile
Justice System
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Guide Highlights: Use HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE (page 5) You can use this guide during the time your child is involved with juvenile Court, from time of arrest until he or she is released from the Court’s supervision. This guide provides information about:
What is going to happen to your child as he or she goes through the system,
Ways that you, juvenile probation & the juvenile Court can work together to help your child,
People who you & your child will meet in the juvenile justice system,
The rights & responsibilities of everyone involved, including you, your child, juvenile probation & the Court.
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Tool- County Family Peer to Peer Programs }
State & county family peer to peer support (FP2P) projects.
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New FP2P services starting under state transformation efforts for High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) & System of Care (SOC) projects, adding 10 new counties with FP2P services, & enhancing 7 existing FP2P projects with this new option.
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FP2P programs are adding outcome measures including established approaches- Targeted Parent Assessment (TPA), HFW & SOC, & an original visual progress mapping (Allegheny Family Network)
Key Learnings
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From the Federal Level
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From Pennsylvania Model
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Learnings- Federal Level OJJDP is committed to: }
Establish an internal OJJDP staff working group to address the issue.
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Establish a Casey Family Fellowship, which has been filled by a full-time staff person from Casey Family Programs.
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Prioritize family engagement as a primary goal of OJJDP’s National Center for Youth in Custody (NC4YC). Source: OJJDP Webinar-“Engaging With Families in the Justice System…” 12/14/12 40
Learnings- Federal Level cont. OJJDP’s Family Listening Sessions, 2012 Recommendations: }
Improve communication & access to information for families.
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Remove children from adult jails & prisons.
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Remove visitation barriers.
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Improve individualized treatment & aftercare plans. Source: OJJDP Webinar-“Engaging With Families in the Justice System…” 12/14/12
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Learnings- PA Model Shifting practice & policy will require a commitment to: }
Achieve better family involvement outcomes which can be linked to improved outcomes for the child, the community, the victim & the system.
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Look honestly at underlying biases, skill gaps, & structures which prevent practitioners from effectively & authentically involving families in their child’s juvenile justice experience.
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Include families in this assessment & the subsequent design & implementation of responses. 42
Assessing Family Engagement & Involvement Practices Does your state/jurisdiction/system : }
Have written policies &/or regulations?
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Involve families in evaluative & advisory processes?
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Train on families & practitioners on engaging & involving families in juvenile justice, on both individual child & policy/program ?
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Develop accessible family supports?
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Measure the quantity & quality of family involvement?
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Measure youth outcomes related to family involvement? 43
Exploring Your Assets & Barriers
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What do you have on the ground now?
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What is an obstacle to your moving forward?
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What kind of help do you need?
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Not This‌
Parens Patriae- State as Parent Source: PA Family Involvement JPO Curriculum
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This!
All partners informed & respected Source: PA Family Involvement JPO Curriculum
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Resources- PA Pennsylvania }
Family Involvement in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System http://www.pachiefprobationofficers.org/docs/Family%20Involvement%20Monograph.pdf
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A Family Guide to PA’s Juvenile Justice System http://www.pachiefprobationofficers.org/docs/Family%20Guide%20to%20PA%20Juvenile%20Justice %20System.pdf
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Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice System Enhancement System http://www.pachiefprobationofficers.org/docs/JJSES%20Monograph%20Final%20Draft%204-3-12.pdf
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Resources- National }
NCMHJJ- Involving Families of Youth Who are in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System-2002 http://www.ncmhjj.com/pdfs/publications/Family.pdf
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CJJR- Safety, Fairness & Stability: Repositioning Juvenile Justice & Child Welfare to Engage Families & Communities-2011 http://cjjr.georgetown.edu/pdfs/famengagement/FamilyEngagementPaper.pdf
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CJJR- Recommendations to Strengthen Federal Agency Support of Family Engagement Efforts-2011 http://cjjr.georgetown.edu/pdfs/famengagement/FamilyEngagementRecommendationstoFederalAgencies2011.pdf
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NCMHJJ/MfC-Family Resources Inventory: An Overview of Resources for Family,Youth, and Staff -2011 http://www.ncmhjj.com/cms-assets/documents/73862-454636.fri-080212.revised.pdf
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CSG Webinar- Child Trauma & Juvenile Justice: Prevalence, Impact & Treatment, Gene Griffin- 2012 http://consensusproject.org/features/webinar-archive-child-trauma-and-juvenile-justice-prevalence-impact-andtreatment
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MfC-Innovation Brief: Strengthening the Role of Families in Juvenile Justice-2012 http://www.modelsforchange.net/publications/352
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J4F- Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice-2012 https://www.justice4families.org/~justicg5/file/famsunlockingfutures.html
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OJJDP- Webinar, Engaging & Empowering Families in Juvenile Justice- 2012 http://nc4yc.org/training/webinars/details/16-engaging-and-empowering-families-in-juvenile-justice.html
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Family Peer Support Resources by State- 2013 http://www.ffcmh.org/find-local-chapter , http://www.policyresearchinc.org/fcnhome/sitepages/SFN_Grantees.aspx, Children’s System of Care Grants (contact state Mental Health Office) www.NAMI.org , www.nmha.org , 48 Council of State Governments Justice Center
Contact Information Wendy Luckenbill Community Care Behavioral Health Organization 1 East Uwchlan Avenue Exton, PA 19341 luckenbillwl@ccbh.com 610-534-2809
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Peer-to-Peer Connections http://consensusproject.org/forums/1
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