• $1,160,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  Juvenile Justice

  DELMAR, NEW YORK — Policy Research, Inc. operates the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, a nationally-recognized nonprofit in providing expertise, information, and resources on issues related to the mental health needs of youth involved with the juvenile justice system that has been the lead technical assistance provider on mental health issues in the Models for Change juvenile justice reform initiative. It will use this grant to establish a training and technical assistance center to support the dissemination and adoption of resources and program models developed under Models for Change to better identify and care for justice-involved youth with mental health needs.

• $450,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  Juvenile Justice

  DELMAR, NEW YORK — The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice works to improve the juvenile justice system's handling of young people who need mental health treatment. It will use this grant to organize a national conference, at which participants in the three issue-focused Models for Change Action Networks (disproportionate minority contact, mental health, juvenile indigent defense) will share and refine strategies for securing and expanding their reform work and promoting it to a wider audience; and to engage in other activities to sustain their issue networks and spread their strategic innovations.

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Duration 2 years)

  Juvenile Justice

  DELMAR, NEW YORK — The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice works to improve the juvenile justice system's handling of young people who need mental health treatment. It will use this grant to organize a national conference, at which participants in the three issue-focused Models for Change Action Networks (disproportionate minority contact, mental health, juvenile indigent defense) will share and refine strategies for securing and expanding their reform work and promoting it to a wider audience; and to engage in other activities to sustain their issue networks and spread their strategic innovations.

• $464,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Juvenile Justice

  DELMAR, NEW YORK — In support of Models for Change Action Network activities to promote innovative reforms.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Policy Research, Inc. $2,324,000 between 2010 and 2013.