Reimagining Juvenile Justice Feedback Session

In the spring of 2019,The Annie E. Casey Foundation supported by SMI, brought together a cohort of 34 juvenile justice professionals to attend its first ever Reimagining Juvenile Justice Institute. The Foundation launched the Institute to help juvenile probation staff and other juvenile justice professionals deliver the RJJ curriculum in their home communities. To read more on The Annie E. Casey website, please click here.

After a year of delivering the curriculum, we virtually reconvened in March 2020, for a 2-day feedback session to reflect on the work accomplished and envision the road ahead for the next RJJ institute.

RJJ Impact
By the end of 2019, our 34 trainers from 15 sites across the country had trained 450 juvenile justice professionals.  The curriculum provided tools and effectively empowered professionals to integrate a positive youth development(PYD) framework and a cross-system approach, resulting in a youth-centered juvenile justice system.