Washington State Department of Social & Health Services, Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration

The State of Washington’s Department of Social and Human oversees social services provided to its residents, including youth involved in the juvenile justice, child welfare, and behavioral health systems simultaneously. It will use this grant to continue to improve its responses to these "multi-system" youth, by ensuring that information and resources are shared across systems, and completing implementation of key state-level policy and local practice reforms, documenting their outcomes, and ensuring that they are institutionalized.

To reduce racial and ethnic disparities as part of Washington Models for Change (over two years).

To develop a plan to reduce disproportionate minority contact in the state's juvenile justice system as part of Models for Change in Washington.