Models for Change - National Resource Bank
The National Resource Bank (NRB) is a group of 16 leading national juvenile justice research, reform, and advocacy organizations that provide expert advice, training, and technical assistance to the core states and action network sites. The National Resource Bank helps to provide a birds-eye perspective on the local work, and connect the sites to successful practices emerging in the network and across the nation. The NRBs working with Washington State include:
- Center for Children's Law and Policy (CCLP)
The Center for Children's Law and Policy is a public interest law and policy organization that works to reform juvenile justice, child welfare, education, and other systems that affect troubled and at-risk children. Its mission is to protect these children and ensure that they receive the necessary support and services to become healthy, productive adults. CCLP is the successor to the Washington, D.C. office of the Youth Law Center. - Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown University
The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform supports leadership development and advances a balanced, multi-systems approach to reducing juvenile crime that both holds youth accountable and promotes positive child and youth development. - Center on Youth Justice (CYJ), Vera Institute of Justice
The Vera Institute of Justice combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety. The mission of Vera's Center on Youth Justice (CYJ) is to promote the well-being and safety of youth, families, and communities by working with government to make juvenile justice systems equitable and humane in policy and practice. - Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA)
The Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving youth correctional systems and services. Since 1994, CJCA has brought together youth correctional leaders from across the country to lead and to promote advances in juvenile justice. It identifies and educates the field about best practices, promotes the sharing of research and resources, and educates policymakers and the public about treatment, rehabilitation, and other current issues in juvenile corrections. Through the education and development of correction agency leaders, CJCA aims to improve the practices and policies in local systems and increase the chances of success for delinquent youths. - National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ)
The National Center for Juvenile Justice, founded in 1973, is the Research Division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. It is the only independent research organization that focuses exclusively on juvenile justice issues, with the mission of strengthening the effectiveness of juvenile and family justice systems and improving the quality of justice for children and families. NCJJ analyzes data on young people as victims and offenders, evaluates juvenile justice procedures and interventions, and conducts cross-cutting assessments of state laws that affect children and adolescents. - National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice was established in 2001 in response to growing concerns about the care and treatment of youth with mental health problems who come in contact with the juvenile justice system. Its mission is to assist the field in developing improved policies and programs for youth with mental health disorders in contact with the juvenile justice system, based on the best available research and practice. The Center is operated by Policy Research, Inc. in Delmar, New York. - National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
The National Council of La Raza-the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights, advocacy, and community development organization-was established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans. In 2000 NCLR adopted criminal and juvenile justice issues as a priority, and in 2006 it established the Latino Juvenile Justice Network. The Network has four goals: to build juvenile justice advocacy capacity among Latino community-based organizations; to heighten awareness and contribute a Latino perspective to reform efforts in Models for Change sites; to promote opportunities for local and state-based groups to learn from each other; and to complement and inform NCLR's existing federal-level justice advocacy work. - National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC)
The mission of NJDC is to ensure excellence in juvenile defense and promote justice for all children. NJDC provides support to public defenders, appointed counsel, law school clinical programs and non-profit law centers to ensure quality representation in urban, suburban, rural and tribal areas and offers a wide range of integrated services to juvenile defenders, including training, technical assistance, advocacy, networking, collaboration, capacity building and coordination. - National Youth Screening and Assessment Project, University of Massachusetts, Department of Psychiatry
The National Youth Screening Assessment Project (NYSAP) is a technical assistance and research group based at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Its purpose is to promote sound mental health and forensic screening and assessment practices nationwide through the use of new tools such as the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument - Second Version (MAYSI-2). NYSAP's goal is to improve services to youth with mental health needs who come into the juvenile justice system. - Justice Policy Institute
The Justice Policy Institute is a Washington, DC-based organization working to promote sensible policy reforms in adult and juvenile justice systems through public education and communications efforts targeted at policymakers, the media, and the public. Its central mission is to reduce society's reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems. Lawmakers, media, advocates, systems reformers and the general public rely on JPI's timely analysis. JPI was named one of the 25 most quoted progressive non-profits in the country by FAIR magazine. - Juvenile Law Center
Founded in 1975, Juvenile Law Center is the oldest multi-issue public interest law firm for children in the United States. With an approach grounded in principles of adolescent development, Juvenile Law Center uses the law on behalf of youth in the child welfare and criminal and juvenile justice systems to promote fairness, prevent harm, ensure access to appropriate services and create opportunities. Juvenile Law Center uses an array of legal and other advocacy strategies to ensure that the child welfare, juvenile justice, and other public systems provide vulnerable children with the protection and services they need to become healthy and productive adults. - W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI)
The W. Haywood Burns Institute is a non-profit organization devoted to addressing the needs of poor youth and young people of color, their families, and communities by targeting over-representation in the juvenile justice system. The Burns Institute fulfills its mission by employing two core strategies: 1. Using a data-driven, consensus-based approach that involves working with traditional and non-traditional stake-holders to change policies, procedures, and practices that impact youth of color and poor children. 2. Building the capacity of local organizations to hold the juvenile justice system accountable to communities of color and to improve and strengthen their programs and organizations.