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Reclaiming Futures: Using communication to drive community and systems change

Prichard, Mac; Nissen, Laura Burney; Farrell, Patty; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 34-34

Reclaiming Futures is a national juvenile justice reform initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During its 11years of demonstration and expansion phases, Reclaiming Futures has used a variety of communications strategies, tools, and techniques to achieve its objectives. This paper...

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Evaluating systems change in a juvenile justice reform initiative

Roman, John K.; Butts, Jeffrey A.; Roman, Caterina Gouvis - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 41-41

Evaluating comprehensive, interagency initiatives to reform human services systems presents substantial challenges to …

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The development and evolution of Reclaiming Futures at the ten-year mark: Reflections and recommendations

Nissen, Laura Burney; Merrigan, Dan - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 9-9

Reclaiming Futures has been a successful national demonstration project, initially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which seeks to improve a system-wide response to young people in the juvenile justice system with substance abuse issues. The initiative is a multiyear effort that has...

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Exploring the implementation of justice-based alcohol and drug intervention strategies with juvenile offenders: Reclaiming Futures, enhanced adolescent substance abuse treatment, a...

Nissen, Laura Burney; Pearce, Jessica - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 60-60

There is a need for practice models to match young people in the juvenile justice system with timely and effective alcohol and drug intervention services. This paper reports on a new demonstration effort in which three practice approaches currently operating in the United States are being...

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Toward an effective treatment system for adolescents with substance use disorders: The role of the states

Cavanaugh, Doreen; Kraft, M. Katherine; Muck, Randolph; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 16-16

program's results. Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis document that substantive systems development occurred …

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Implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model in diverse contexts: Child welfare and juvenile justice professionals' experiences of multisystem collaborations

Haight, Wendy L.; Bidwell, Laurel N.; Marshall, Jane Marie - In: Children and Youth Services Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 91-100

justice and child welfare systems communicate and collaborate more effectively in case assessment, planning and management … and key community stakeholders. Comparative case analyses across five counties suggest that systems change processes vary … across and within local contexts. Implications for the implementation of systems change practice models in diverse contexts …

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Sense of meaningfulness, sources of meaning, and self-evaluation of economically disadvantaged youth in Hong Kong: implications for youth development programs

To, Siu-ming; Tam, Hau-lin; Ngai, Steven Sek-yum; Sung, … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 47 (2014) P3, pp. 352-361

This study aimed to explore the direction of youth development programs for economically disadvantaged youth by examining how their sense of meaningfulness and sources of meaning were associated with self-evaluation. Based on a survey design of 373 low-income Chinese adolescents recruited from...

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