Webinars

Mr. Jennings will reprise his plenary presentation from the 2010 Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness on the efforts by the Education Department and federal government to reach out to youth currently in recovery. As part of this work Mr. Jennings will discuss how the Department of Education is hoping to increase the number of recovery schools, including programs designed for students and families committed to achieving success in both education and recovery.

This webinar will address the existing and upcoming changes in the US health care system resulting from the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health reform law. Doreen will identify existing funding sources supporting treatment and recovery services for juvenile justice involved youth with substance use disorders and highlight how new opportunities under health reform might affect these youth and their families. Doreen will discuss ways to enhance collaborative relationships across the health and juvenile justice sectors and detail the steps to take now at State and local levels to improve access and quality of treatment and recovery services for youth in the juvenile justice system.

Charles Wilson Executive Director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego presented on his work developing a trauma informed systems approach to treating kids with in the child welfare system.

For the 23rd year, September is designated Recovery Month by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This year Recovery Month continues to promote the critical message that prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover. Our theme “Join the Voices for Recovery: It’s Worth It,” emphasizes that while the road to recovery may be difficult, the benefits of preventing and overcoming mental and/or substance use disorders are significant and valuable to individuals, families, and communities.

SAMHSA created the toolkit to educate people that those in recovery achieve healthy lifestyles, both physically and emotionally, and contribute in positive ways to their communities. The toolkit assists in planning Recovery Month events and provides tools and educational materials to distribute in communities and during local events. On July 19th, Ivette Torres, Associate Director for Consumer Affairs at SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) will introduce us to the tools and resources available within the toolkit and answer your questions about how to make the best use of the toolkit and Recovery Month. You can find more information about recovery month and download the toolkit at recoverymonth.gov.

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This webinar explores the critical role that prosecutors play with regard to substance abuse issues in juvenile court and dispel the notion that prosecutors are only concerned with “locking kids up”. Susan will discuss the significant role DA’s serve in all aspects of these cases — from prevention through intervention and continuing care efforts. She will highlight their role in diverting kids from the juvenile justice system and their efforts to find alternatives that address underlying issues in order to prevent them from returning to court. The webinar will also offer specific strategies that will encourage engagement and collaboration to create a true multi-disciplinary response to this national substance abuse problem among our youth.

The National Juvenile Justice Network presents a webinar on how advocates can find opportunities for reform of the juvenile justice system during difficult fiscal times. The financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 means that almost all states are facing alarming budget shortfalls. Yet, far from being a time to hold back, now is the time to search for new opportunities to advocate for cost-effective juvenile justice reform. The webinar will provide examples from states that have succeeded in achieving progressive, fiscally-minded reforms, with specific insights from NJJN members and partners in Wisconsin, Ohio and Washington State.

This workshop provided an overview of the many different intersecting identities held by young people in the youth justice system, including race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and immigration status. The presenters then focused on how LGN/GNC young people, particularly those of color, are driven into the youth justice system. The workshop ended with recommendations on how behavioral health professionals can improve their services to best meet the needs of LGB/GNC adolescents in the youth justice system.

The National Compares Network (NCN) will present an overview and dialogue focused on the core tenets and origins of a Brown Paper: Lifting Latinos Up By Their Rootstraps: Moving Beyond Trauma Through A Healing-Informed Framework for Latino Boys and Men.

The dialogue includes an ethnographic analysis of the efficacy of La Cultura Cura or Transformational Healing. The webinar also explores how NCN’s healing-informed framework and cultural teachings led to the design and implementation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Evidenced-Based Practice: Joven Noble developed by Jerry Tello.

Dr. Flanagan is a professor of youth civic development at Penn State University. Her program of work, “Adolescents and the social contract,” concerns the factors in families, schools, and communities that promote civic values and competencies in young people. During this webinar she will provide an overview of the critical building blocks for successful civic engagement by youth.

Investing in Reclaiming Futures is designed specifically for public agencies, policymakers and foundations wanting to learn more about the Reclaiming Futures model and how the model has been adopted as a cost-effective juvenile justice reform initiative.

The webinar will: 1) overview the compelling need, 2) describe Reclaiming Futures, 3) describe a state framework for Reclaiming Futures, and 4) discuss the role of public policy makers and foundations in adopting Reclaiming Futures as a state framework.

Young people have the capacity to grow and change. Restorative justice and Reclaiming Futures stress the importance of engagement and relationship with others in facilitating growth, accountability, and healing.

This interactive workshop will highlight restorative justice principles and explore restorative justice as a primary prevention, intervention, and re-entry strategy.

It aims to encourage assessment of program alignment with restorative principles and more in-depth exploration of restorative justice through the tools and resources provided.

This webinar will be interactive. Included below are Achievement-based Objectives. They describe what participants will actually do in the 90 minutes. By the end of the workshop, participants will have:

• Compared Restorative Justice to the standard Criminal Justice approach
• Recalled where Restorative Justice principles have emerged in their own lives
• Considered how examples from multi tiered Approach can inform RJ practice in their context
• Shared resources to explore RJ further (article, websites, books)
• Named individual next steps to apply something from the workshop

About the presenter: Jon has been exploring the concepts of restorative justice (RJ) for over 18 years. Currently, he is an independent consultant focused on restorative justice and juvenile justice reform.

Jon was the Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) during the initial implementation of RJ within Oakland Unified School District. Jon co-authored Restorative Justice: A Working Guide for Our Schools with Rita Alfred in 2011.

Jeff Butts demonstrates the Reclaiming Futures model as a guide to collecting and analyzing data.

Jeff explains how the steps of the model can be used to collect individual-level data, and the performance and outcome measures can be used as system processing counts.