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Juvenile Justice News

Guiding efforts and creating standards for the transformation of juvenile justice systems CJCA has been proactive in the continuous improvement of the nation’s juvenile justice system based on this growing knowledge of adolescent development and the ef- fects of interventions throughout the continuum of care since 1994. The council has worked to improve youth correctional services and practices by uniting the nation’s youth correction- al chief executives and by providing a source of positive support. CJCA was founded with two objectives: to influence the development of juve- nile justice policy nationally and to support administrators locally. 12

Performance-based Standards (PbS) was created in 1995 by the U.S. Department of Justice, Of- fice of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to improve the conditions reported by the 1994 OJJDP Conditions of Confinement Study. 13 OJJDP awarded the competi- tive contract to the CJCA to develop national juvenile facility standards that are supported by outcomes indicating performance rather than process-oriented standards report- ing the existence of policies. Over the past 24 years, PbS has continu- ally updated its data-driven system improvement model to incorporate the most recent research to hold juvenile justice agencies, facili- ties and residential care providers

to the highest standards for opera- tions, practices and services. PbS is currently implemented in about 200 state-, local- and privately-run facili- ties across 37 states. This program builds performance enhancement and accountability into agency, facility and program operations using a data improvement model. The model provides a blueprint for operations and provides data that shows what is working and what needs to change to ensure positive outcomes for youth. CJCA continues to create posi- tion papers that guide best practices in this continuously improving field. They encompass a full continuum of care, including topics such as fam- ily engagement, trauma-informed care, community-based mental health services and services for

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