JJIE Launches New Resource Hub

The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) launched the all inclusive Juvenile Justice Resource Hub with the help of the National Juvenile Justice Network and the MacArthur Foundation. The Hub is an expansive source of information on modern juvenile justice issues and reform trends.
The Hub includes research, guides, toolkits and advice from experts on issues like health, education, family finances, after school and youth development and child welfare. The site includes tools to communicate, fundraise, evaluate and advocate as well.
In the future, the Hub will also offer a number of new features and those interested can sign up to receive updates. Updates will include:

1. Courses to decrease youth interaction with the juvenile justice system and cost-effective ways to revamp the outcomes for them while establishing safe communities.
2. Research and solutions on the barriers youth in the juvenile justice system are facing regarding rights to a qualified attorney to exercise their constitutional right to counsel.
3. Aftercare, which focuses on how to help incarcerated youth transition safely and successfully back into the community.
4. Youth of color have a high presence in the juvenile justice system; the hub will be reviewing model policies and strategies for reform shortly.

JJIE also published their first article in a series of issues involving juvenile justice which ponders how best to treat, oversee, discipline and cope with troubled teens who are facing the juvenile justice system due to emotional or mental health implications. The article, “Mental Health and the Juvenile Justice System: Progress, Problems and Paradoxes,” is part of a collaborative series with the Center for Public Integrity.
 
 

Jaclyn Chelf is a Digital and Social Media Intern at Prichard Communications. She is graduating in June, 2013 from the University of Oregon where she had been studying Journalism, Public Relations and Communication studies. She loves warm weather, the outdoors and her dog.