Reclaiming Futures (RF) relies on community partnerships to improve treatment quality, strengthen local leadership, expand inter-organizational collaboration, and create systems of shared performance management. The initial findings of a cross-site evaluation suggest that Reclaiming Futures is yielding important and positive change. Continue reading The RWJF Reclaiming Futures Initiative
Researchers will debate for years why violent crime in the United States increased sharply in the 1980s and early 1990s before dropping just as precipitously in the mid- to late-1990s. All researchers agree, however, that general trends in violent crime during this period had much to do with changing rates of youth crime. Continue reading The Rise and Fall of American Youth Violence: 1980 to 2000
Host: When we see the headline stories in the newspapers about young people usually young teenagers committing adult-like crimes, it often tends to obscure the fact that most of the young teenagers who commit crimes are, in fact, committing low-level crimes and that they are often first offenders, so we don’t seem to spend a great deal of time discussing exactly how they should be treated… Continue reading WAMU – Kojo Nnamdi Show
Ira Schwartz and a colleague, Jeffrey Butts, recently reviewed the discharge diagnoses of 20,300 young people nationally in over 1,000 hospitals. Continue reading Committed Youth
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