Blog Apr 13, 2010
CJCJ Exposes Inaccurate Media Reports
Recently, CJCJ has cultivated many policy reports and articles surrounding issues within the juvenile justice system. Through these recent publications CJCJ exposes inaccurate media reports through the utilization of data and policy analysis. This month Executive Director Daniel Macallair was featured in both the LA Times and California Progress Report reflecting on California’s current budget crisis and the state’s inablity to continue to support a youth correctional system that has been…
Blog Apr 13, 2010
Model Community Mental Health Programming
The “Blueprint for Change ” report released by The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice in 2007 highlights the need to address mental health treatment from a unified approach that includes both the juvenile justice system and mental health agencies. The report mentions several important cornerstones in the treatment of youth with mental disorders. One of the key points is that all juvenile justice involved youth should be “systematically screened for mental illness”. …
Daniel Macallair, MPA, CJCJ’s co-founder and Executive Director was featured in the Los Angeles Times. Read “Getting the state out of juvenile justice ” and learn how “shifting responsibility for youth correctional facilities to the counties could cut the budget deficit and move young offenders out of a system that ‘is broken almost everywhere you look.’ ”
Newsroom Apr 12, 2010
Getting the state out of juvenile justice
Getting the state out of juvenile justice Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2010
Newsroom Apr 9, 2010
Column: Phoebe Prince, Bullying, and Me
Column: Phoebe Prince, Bullying, and Me The Boston Globe, April 9, 2010