Strategic and Effective Practices in
Juvenile Confinement Facilities
The OJJDP/NJDA Overcrowding Project's accomplishments completed the
circle of information and interventions. To make training
and technical assistance effective, there must be a
component that conducts research on effective practices,
operations, and systems. Dissemination of this knowledge
occurs through training, education, technical assistance,
and strategic planning. By moving the implementation
of the Jurisdictional Teams Training to CRPD, NJDA
fulfilled the need for information on Effective Practices
and strengthened the training and education divisions
of CRPD.
Larry D. Miesner is the Director of the Strategic and
Effective Practices Division. He joined CRPD in 2001
after serving over 30 years in the juvenile justice
system. He was the chief of Michigan's Bureau of Juvenile
Justice, overseeing all of the State's juvenile corrections
facilities. Prior to that he was the director of
Michigan's divisions of Residential Care and Child
Care Resources.
GOALS:
- To strengthen the quality and quantity of cost-effective, time-limited,
problem-specific training and technical assistance
activities
- Strengthen and expand the understanding of reentry as an essential
and inseparable component of the juvenile detention
and corrections process
- Provide training and technical support to state/local jurisdictions
in the use of a strategic planning methodology that
enhances juvenile system effectiveness
- Identify and promote the development of adequate and meaningful systems
of alternatives to confinement
- Identify and promulgate exemplary strategies, policies, and practices
that:
- Promote effective interventions to all youth in the juvenile justice
system
- Create safe environments for youth and staff in juvenile confinement
facilities
- Reduce the threat of litigation to local jurisdictions, and
- Identify exemplary programs that may be replicated in state and local
jurisdictions.
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