Workshop Topics

The majority of these workshops have been developed to be engaging and interactive, integrating information, dialog, and skills-building activities. The sessions will approach the subject matter by balancing theory, shared experiences, and skills development. Workshop facilitators will ensure that participants will not only gain knowledge, but also be better prepared to apply that knowledge. The primary goal of these sessions is to provide participants with tools to apply what they have learned to help improve the lives of youth in their own communities.

Building Capacity

• Assessing Juvenile Justice Program Performance
  
  
• Challenges and Solutions for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
  
  
• Collaboration and Sustainability: Challenges for Comprehensive Communitywide Initiatives
  
  
• Communities In Schools: Strategies To Help Kids Stay in School and Prepare for Life
  
  
• Connecting Truth to Power: Philadelphia-Camden Area Youth Speak Out on Their Communities, Their Lives, Their Challenges
  
  
• Connecting Truth to Power: San Francisco Bay Area Youth Speak Out on Their Communities, Their Lives, Their Challenges
  
  
• Creating a Safe and Secure Learning Environment: A Blueprint for School Improvement
  
  
• Detention Reform 101
  
  
• The Future of Balanced and Restorative Justice: Solving Systemic Problems Through Restorative Policy, Practice, and Performance Measures
  
  
• The Gang Reduction Program: Community Planning and Implementation
  
  
• Geographic Information Systems for Strategic Planning
  
  
• High-Growth Job Training and the U.S. Department of Labor
  
  
• Juvenile Defender Programs
  
  
• Juvenile Drug Court Panel Discussion: What's Working
  
  
• Juvenile Integrated Information Sharing: A Framework for Improving Cross-Agency Collaboration
  
  
• Lessons Learned: Collaborating To Support Long-Term Recovery Following Crisis in a School Setting: The Role of Federal, Local, and Other Partners
  
  
• Managing Juvenile Services: Building Leadership Capacity and Organizational Competency
  
  
• Mental Health and Juvenile Justice: Building a Model for Effective Service Delivery
  
  
• Municipal Leadership in Collaborations for Juvenile Justice
  
  
• Native American Youth Gangs: Resizing the Native Youth Gang Issue
  
  
• New Juvenile Delinquency Guidelines Released by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges To Improve the Juvenile Justice System in America
  
  
• Pipeline Analysis: Determining Program Effectiveness on a Real-Time Basis
  
  
• Project Safe Neighborhoods
  
  
• Promoting a Coordinated and Integrated Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice System: A Framework for Successful Outcomes Across Multiple Systems
  
  
• Prosecutor Programs: The Role of the Prosecutor in Delinquency and Dependency Cases
  
  
• Reclaiming the Futures of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
  
  
• Resources and More Resources: Federal Agencies Each Share Resources From Their Agency
  
  
• Statutory Rape: To Report or Not To Report
  
  
• Understanding and Applying for Federal Funding
  
  
• Weed and Seed Youth Programs
  
  
• Youth Court: America's Youth Justice System

Prevention

• Character and Civic Education: The Role of Youth Development and Leadership Within School and Community Prevention Efforts
  
  
• Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws
  
  
• Mentoring: Resources, Resources, and More Resources
  
  
• Mentoring: Three Federal Government Initiatives Making a Difference
  
  
• Methamphetamine: A Growing Concern
  
  
• Positive Youth Development/Promotion Strategies
  
  
• The Role and Impact of Community Service on Outcomes for Disadvantaged Youth
  
  
• Safe Start for Children Exposed to Family Violence: National Perspective
  
  
• Safe, Supportive, and Successful Schools
  
  
• Screening and Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Suicide Risk
  
  
• Stop Bullying Now
  
  
• Targeted Outreach Initiative
  
  
• Tribal Youth and Mental Health
  
  
• Utilizing Risk and Needs Assessments: Making the Best Use of Valuable Juvenile Justice Resources
  
  
• Welcome to the Adolescent Brain
  
  
• What Youth Need To Flourish

Offenders

• Best Practices in Juvenile Sex Offender Management
  
  
• Breaking Down the "Service Wall" When Working With Young Offenders
  
  
• Deviant Peer Contagion
  
  
• Educational Needs of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
  
  
• Hidden Disability: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
  
  
• Interagency Approach to Sex Offender Management
  
  
• Juvenile Transfers to Adult Court: The Intersection of Research and Policy
  
  
• Juveniles in Correctional Facilities
  
  
• Performance-based Standards for Youth Correction and Detention Facilities
  
  
• Reentry Strategies
  
  
• Strategies for Employing Juvenile Offenders: Promising Approaches to Workforce Development
  
  
• Understanding Delinquency Among Girls: Trends, Patterns, and Pathways

Victims

• Adverse Childhood Experiences: What We Are Learning
  
  
• Cultural Sensitivity/Historical Trauma
  
  
• Current Research and Best Practices for Promoting Internet Safety for Children and Families
  
  
• The Intersection of Runaway and Homeless Youth and Domestic Violence
  
  
• Missing Children's Resources
  
  
• Programmatic Approaches and Research: Early Childhood Maltreatment and Later Delinquency
  
  
• Sexual Exploitation of Teens: Framing the Issues and Examining the Latest Data
  
  
• Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program
  
  
• Too Dear at Any Cost: Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth and Working With Youth at Risk