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The next JDCAP Board/Membership meeting is scheduled for Wednesday April 2 at the CCAP Office. The meeting reception will start at 9:30 AM and the agenda will run from 10A-3P.

If you are interested membership so you can take advantage of these valuable information sharing activities, please contact wbear@pacounties.org

Additional Information

Webinar To Explore Lessons Learned From Colorado's Juvenile Diversion Program

On March 20, 2014, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET, OJJDP's National Training and Technical Assistance Center, in collaboration with the National Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center, will present the Webinar "Evaluation in Action: Lessons Learned From Colorado's Juvenile Diversion Program." In addition to providing an overview of the evaluation project and sharing the results, the presenters will discuss the challenges associated with conducting a multisite evaluation and explore the process of hiring and working with an external evaluation team.

Resources:

Register for this free Webinar.

Watch and/or listen to past NJJEC Webinars.

Here is an interesting read

Through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NIJ has made available the following final technical report (this report is the result of an NIJ-funded project but was not published by the U.S. Department of Justice):

Title: Pathways to Desistance - Final Technical Report (pdf, 20 pages)

Authors: Edward P. Mulvey, Carol A. Schubert, Alex Piquero

Abstract:

How serious adolescent offenders reduce or stop their criminal offending is critical information for the juvenile justice system to have as it attempts to redirect adolescent offenders while ensuring public safety. The Pathways to Desistance Study is a multi-site, collaborative research project that followed 1,354 serious juvenile offenders from adolescence to young adulthood. The investigation sought to:

• identify initial patterns of how serious adolescent offenders stop their antisocial activity
• describe the role that social context and developmental changes play in promoting these positive changes
• compare how well sanctions and interventions promote these changes

The larger goals of the study were to improve decision making by court and social service personnel and to clarify debates about alternative policies for serious adolescent offenders.