► A-1 -- Youth and the
U.S. Justice System: Our Histories - Our Future (Part 1 of 2;
second part during afternoon session)
Presenter:
Malachi Garza, Technical Assistance and Peer Exchange Manager at
the W. Haywood Burns
Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity (CA)
Description:
Youth & the U.S. Justice System is a popular education history
curriculum that traces developments in the juvenile justice system from
the 1500’s to the policies and practices of today. This curriculum
documents changes in the treatment of youth, particularly the impact of
class, gender, race and ethnicity on the incarceration of youth in the
U.S.
The curriculum utilizes images, accessible language and critical
thinking questions to engage participants. This session will focus on
content as well as training methodology of this curriculum.
► A-2 --
Reducing Racial Disparities Across Child Serving Systems
Presenters:
Brad Richardson,
Ph.D., National DMC Coordinator
Representative
Wayne Ford (IA)
Description:
Research and practice change involving demonstration projects to reduce
disparities in the child welfare system and simultaneous efforts to
reduce disparities in the juvenile justice system have been conducted
over the past five-year period. County, family, individual and
administrative data have been used to evaluate outcomes. While there are
many cases of disparities in the child welfare, juvenile justice and
educational systems, the Minority Youth and Families Initiative (MYFI)
and DMC efforts to eliminate disparities show that measurable results
can be achieved through a combination of systems change and changes in
direct practice. The findings provide guidance for reducing
disproportionality and measuring systems change and program improvement.
► A-3 -- Dual
Jurisdiction: Dependency & Delinquency Cases
Presenters:
Denise C. Herz, Ph.D., Professor
California State University - Los Angeles
Shalinee Hunter,
Corrections Consultant
Description:
Until recently, research on child welfare and juvenile justice
populations rarely identified youth who were involved in both systems.
This presentation will review more recent research that examines the
characteristics of dual jurisdiction youth and their outcomes.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the role race/ethnicity and gender
play in defining crossover youth as well as their experiences in the
system. Data from various efforts in California will be used to examine
these issues.
► A-4 --
Understanding the Impacts of Racial Profiling: Training for Oregon
Law Enforcement
Presenters:
Henry Reimann
Frank Thompson,
Superintendent, Santiam Correctional Institution
Description:
The Simon Wiesenthal Objectives on Racial Profiling Objectives Course is
a program that includes an interactive virtual learning experience
segment. It compels trainees to make critical choices in testing
situations. Unique to this program is the ability to see the
outcome of the user's choices and evaluate their consequences.
This training tool moves officers into a new paradigm of thought on the
subject of racial profiling. It is sensitive to the challenges
that face Law Enforcement both in reality and in the management of
public perception. The product is founded on a robust ethical
perspective projected into real life situational choices. The
objective of this training is to allow Law Enforcement Officers to
confront a number of complex issues that surround the debate on racial
profiling.
► A-5 -- Indian
Child Welfare Act
Presenter:
Terry L. Cross, MSW, ACSW, LCSW (Seneca Nation of Indians)
Description:
► A-6 -- CeaseFire
Chicago: Theory, Critical Elements and Results
Presenter:
Amanda Geppert, Director of National Partnership and Technical
Assistance for CeaseFire Chicago
Description:
The CeaseFire model employs a public health approach to prevent and
reduce shootings and killings among high-risk and gang-involved youth
and to change the community norms associated with the spread of
violence. In this workshop, the theory and the critical elements
that guide CeaseFire program implementation will be described as well as
the results from the recent U.S. Department of Justice evaluation.
Ample time will be provided for questions from participants.
► A-7 -- Racial Disproportionality, Racial Disparities, Evidence Based
Management and Practice Based Evidence and African Americans
Presenters:
Dr. Harold Briggs,
Ph.D., Professor in the School of Social Work at Portland State
University
Dr. Bowen McBeath,
Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Portland State
University
Description:
Drs. Briggs and McBeath depict the
structural contingencies that mask racial disproportionality and
disparities, and how evidence based management (EBM) and practice based
evidence (PBE) approaches aid in establishing a community transformation
which embodies a culture of learning and problem solving for child
welfare and juvenile justice providers working with racially diverse,
marginalized and distress youth, families, and communities.
► A-8 --
Building Successful Alternatives to Secure Confinement
Panel Participants:
Honorable Nan G. Waller, Presiding
Family Law Judge, Multnomah County Circuit Court
Tina Edge, Multnomah County
Juvenile Services Division, Shelter Service Program Coordinator
Patty Iwamoto,
Multnomah County juvenile Services Division, Detention Intake and
Placement Specialist
Les Taylor, Multnomah
County Juvenile Services Division, Gang Resource & Intervention Team
Supervisor
Cynthia and Phillip
Johnson, owners and Operators for New Decisions
Description:
This
workshop will consist of experts in the field of community-based
supervision programs including, design, funding, implementation and
using data to measure program effectiveness. The goals of this
continuum of community-based programs are to reduce recidivism, reduce
failure to appear rates and to improve public safety.
► A-9 --
Consequences of Structural Racism and What to Do About It in Child
Welfare and Juvenile Justice Service Systems
Presenters:
Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally and internationally renowned
researcher, educator, author, and presenter
Description:
This session is presented by
Dr. Joy DeGruy. She lays out the historical and present day expressions
of trauma and injury of African American youth and the importance of
respect as a protective factor against pursuing an anti-social
personality.
► B-1
-- Youth and the U.S. Justice System: Our Histories - Our Future
(Part 2 of 2; first part during morning session)
Presenter:
Malachi Garza, Technical Assistance and Peer Exchange Manager at
the W. Haywood Burns
Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity (CA)
Description: Youth & the U.S. Justice System: Is a popular education history
curriculum that traces developments in the juvenile justice system from
the 1500’s to the policies and practices of today. This curriculum
documents changes in the treatment of youth, particularly the impact of
class, gender, race and ethnicity on the incarceration of youth in the
U.S.
The curriculum utilizes images, accessible language and critical
thinking questions to engage participants. This session will focus on
content as well as training methodology of this curriculum.
► B-2 -- Addressing
Racial Disproportionality & Disparity in Washington State Child Welfare
Presenters:
Honorable Patricia Clark,
King County Superior Court
Lyman Legters,
Senior Director, Casey Family Programs
Description:
Washington State has recently passed legislation requiring the analysis
of racial disproportionality and disparities in its public child welfare
system, and a plan for remediation of the disproportionality/disparities.
This workshop will describe how a local grass roots collaboration
elevated the issue of racial disproportionality and disparities,
developed an analysis, built a foundation of understanding of
institutional and structural racism, tried a number of practice
innovations, and ultimately was the catalyst for the legislation and
state-wide focus on this most important and relevant issue.
► B-3 -- Mental
Health, Dependency & Delinquency
Presenter:
Denise C. Herz, Ph.D.,
Professor
California State University - Los Angeles
Description: Research increasingly documents high levels of mental health and
substance abuse problems among juvenile offenders; however, this
research has not looked at the prevalence of mental health and substance
abuse problems among youth who are involved in both the child welfare
and juvenile justice systems. This presentation uses data collected from
Los Angeles County, California to examine the prevalence of these
problems among a sample of dual jurisdiction youth and to explore the
relationship between these problems and other characteristics such as
the provision of treatment, placement instability, and recidivism.
► B-4 -- Student Threat
Assessment: A Comprehensive System for Threat Assessment and
Management in the Schools
Presenters:
John VanDreal, School
Psychologist
Salem-Keizer School District
Lt. Dave Okada, Salem Police Department
Description: This session will review
the collaborative, multi-agency structure of the Mid-Valley Student
Threat Assessment Team, located in Salem, Oregon. The system
operates within a community that has centralized education resources,
risk management resources, public mental health and a strong presence of
law enforcement. However, the model offered can also be adapted in
a more generic version to address the needs of rural communities with
limited resources or resources contracted through providers located in
larger urban centers.
The team assesses threats
of violence in our youth population, examining both aggravating and
mitigating circumstances, then works with the family, educational
system, social networks, criminal justice and community to develop
intervention strategies to keep the violence from occurring. These
strategies are often effective at not only keeping the youth from
committing the acts of violence, but also examines long-term management
plans.
Specifically, the
presenters will provide a brief survey of the research that addresses
youth violence, an overview of a successful multi-disciplinary threat
assessment and management system and a pertinent case study.
► B-5 -- Working
Effectively with Tribal Governments
Presenters:
Laura Ansera, Tribal Programs Coordinator, OJJDP
Patrick Dunckhorst,
Program Manager, Demonstration Programs Division, OJJDP
Description:
To provide state and local governments with education about tribal
sovereignty, which will include cultural sensitivity training, important
in assisting tribal governments in their efforts to better identify DMC
status of tribal youth services.
► B-6 --
Implementing the OJJDP DMC Reduction Model and Using the Best Practices
Database
Presenters:
Andrea Coleman, State
Representative
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Washington D.C.
Marcia Cohen, Vice
President
Development Services Group, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland
Description:
This workshop will provide a brief overview of OJJDP's DMC Reduction
Model and provide effective strategies to address the five phases
(Identification, Assessment/Diagnosis, Intervention,
Evaluation/Performance Measurement, and Monitoring). This includes
implementing and sustaining state and local initiatives, ensuring
activities, findings, and information in each phase are based on data
obtained in the previous one, and how to conduct ongoing evaluation and
monitoring. How to use the OJJDP DMC-Reduction Best Practices
Database to find appropriate strategies at each contact point will
also be demonstrated.
► B-7 -- Salem-Keizer
Parent Leadership Training
Presenter:
Eduardo Angulo, Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality (OR)
Description:
This workshop series is an informational resource prepared to assist
individuals who are involved in the education of Latino and migrant
parents. The curriculum is aimed to support parents with their
participation in the education of their children.
Through an unusual
combination of parent participation and leadership in the development
and assessment, the curriculum presented here (Educate and Inspire: The
Oregon Statewide Parent Leadership Training Series) is being developed
with the input of hundreds of Latino immigrant and migrant parents. The
resulting workshop series is therefore a tool that is by parents and for
parents; the true leaders of this project.
► B-8 -- Police,
Probation and Detention: A Case Study in Community Partnership and
Collaboration
Panel Participants:
Honorable Nan G. Waller, Presiding
Family Law Judge, Multnomah County Circuit Court
Tina Edge, JDAI
Project Consultant
Multnomah Department of Community Justice
Thomas Cleary, Senior
Deputy District Attorney
Juvenile Division, Multnomah County
David Virtue,
Sergeant, Training Division
Portland Police Bureau
Description:
Law enforcement is a crucial stakeholder in juvenile justice.
Multnomah County Department of Community Justice and the Portland Police
Bureau recently joined hands to develop and implement alternative
responses to youth involved in certain kinds of offenses. New
police officers now receive intensified training on the juvenile justice
system, including placement in community services organizations that
expose them to the types of complex issues that they face when dealing
with juveniles in the field. The resulting collaboration, known as
the Community Partnership Program, has deepened law enforcement's
understanding of, and input into, detention reform and juvenile justice
practice.
► B-9 -- Why
Racial Disproportionality is the Single Most Important Problem in the
U.S. Child Welfare System and How Can Evidence Based Practice Help?
Presenters:
Dr. Julia Littell,
Professor, Bryn Mawr College
Graduate School of Social Work
Dr. Jennifer Bellamy
Description:
This session begins with Dr. Julia Littell providing conference
participants with the evidence supporting the claims of devastation
created as a result of racial disproportionality in child welfare.
It is concluded by Dr. Jennifer Bellamy describing the role of EBP as a
useful approach for addressing racial disproportionalities using the
BEST Project as an illustration.
