initiative overview
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Juvenile Justice in a Developmental Framework: A 2015 Status Report
- Dec 11, 2015, Models for Change
- Advances in the understanding of adolescent development have provided a foundation for progress in juvenile justice reform, including changes in state legislation. In accord with the Supreme…
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Because Kids are Different: Five Opportunities for Reforming the Juvenile Justice System
- Dec 9, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
- As broader acceptance of recent findings in the field of adolescent development has opened the way for change, juvenile justice policymakers, stakeholders, practitioners, and advocates across the…
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A Call to Action
- Dec 1, 2013, Models for Change
- At the close of 2013, Models for Change is turning to a wider effort to use what has been learned and achieved to expand and spread juvenile justice reform to new jurisdictions and audiences.
This…
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Models for Change Update 2012: Headlines
- Nov 30, 2012, Hunter Hurst, National Center for Juvenile Justice
- Models for Change has been an effort to provide what it takes to support and grow comprehensive, organic change in multiple jurisdictions with varying histories, resources, strengths and…
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Adding Up Models for Change: Initial Findings from the Models for Change Database
- Dec 9, 2011, Patrick Griffin, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Models for Change was deliberately designed to be wide-ranging—to support state and local reformers in a variety of settings, working in variety of issue areas, and taking a variety of…
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Models for Change Innovations in Practice
- Nov 30, 2010, Patrick Griffin
- This report briefly summarizes four promising practice innovations that have emerged from Models for Change funding and technical assistance in four key partner states, Pennsylvania, Illinois,…
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Models for Change 2009 Update: Core State Progress
- Nov 2, 2009, Patrick Griffin, National Center for Juvenile Justice
- Central to the Models for Change strategy is its long-termpartnership with four key states: Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana,and Washington. By supporting comprehensive reformsin these core states,…
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Models for Change 2008 Update: Gathering Force
- Dec 9, 2008, Models for Change, National Center for Juvenile Justice
- Outlines specific achievements made in each of the four Model States and three Action Networks since December 2007. Over the last year the sense of movement in the field of juvenile justice, of…
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Building Momentum for Juvenile Justice Reform
- Jan 5, 2006, Justice Policy Institute
- Tells the story of how the four Models for Change states—Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana, and Washington—are already moving to reform and reshape their own state juvenile justice…
