Juvenile Justice

Recent Grants

Juvenile Justice

Number of Grants: 110

16th Judicial District Attorney's Offices, Family Services Division (New Iberia, Louisiana)
$200,000 in support of the development of a model demonstration program for the delivery of community evidenced-based services to status offenders (over two years). (2007)

2nd Judicial Circuit Juvenile Justice Council (Mt. Vernon, Illinois)
$349,500 to participate as a model demonstration site in Illinois Models for Change (over two years). (2008)

9th Judicial District Court Judges' Office (Alexandria, Louisiana)
$300,000 in support of activities in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, as a local demonstration site in the Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2007)

9th Judicial District, District Attorney's Office (Alexandria, Louisiana)
$200,000 in support of the participation of the District Attorney's Office of the Ninth Judicial District (Rapides Parish, Louisiana) in Louisiana Models for Change (over two years). (2008)

Benton/Franklin Counties Juvenile Court (Kennewick, Washington)
$450,000 to reduce disproportionate minority contact, promote system coordination and integration across the juvenile justice and mental health systems, and create alternatives to formal court processing for truant young people as part of the Models for Change initiative in Washington. (2007)

Berks County (Reading, Pennsylvania)
$321,000 to reduce disproportionate minority contact as part of Pennsylvania's Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2009)

Caddo Parish Juvenile Services (Shreveport, Louisiana)
$120,000 in support of the development of a model for the identification and appropriate referral to treatment of youth with mental health and substance abuse conditions in contact with the juvenile justice system (over two years). (2007)

Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Office of Juvenile Justice Services (Lake Charles, Louisiana)
$135,000 to support the Community Assessment Resource Center of Calcasieu Parish as part of the Models for Change initiative in Louisiana. (2009)

Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, Office of Juvenile Justice Services (Lake Charles, Louisiana)
$50,000 in support of the Children and Youth Planning Board's activities. (2007)

Campaign for Youth Justice (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to refine and expand a juvenile justice contact master database, provide technical assistance on juvenile justice communications and media strategies to Models for Change, and produce a series of policy briefs on juvenile justice issues (over two years). (2008)

Campaign for Youth Justice (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of activities to update a report on juveniles transferred to adult criminal court and to create a master database for the distribution of products and materials related to juvenile justice reform (over two years). (2006)

Center for Children's Law and Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$3,250,000 to provide support to the states participating in the Models for Change Disproportionate Minority Contact Action Network (over two years). (2008)

Center for Children's Law and Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$1,750,000 to administer and manage the Disproportionate Minority Contact Action Network (over three years). (2007)

Center for Children's Law and Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$1,500,000 in support of activities to reduce disproportionate minority contact and racial and ethnic disparities in the Models for Change states (over three years). (2006)

Center for Health Policy Development (Washington, D.C.)
$475,000 in support of efforts to expand coverage and improve services under Medicaid for juvenile justice-involved youth in Models for Change states and across the country (over two years). (2007)

Chicago Area Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$225,000 to develop and implement community-based alternative services and sanctions (over two years). (2008)

Chicago Area Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of community-based alternative sanctions for youth in contact with the juvenile justice system (over two years). (2006)

Chicago Urban League (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to fund work on racial and ethnic disparities as part of the Illinois Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2009)

Child Welfare League of America (Arlington, Virginia)
$1,375,000 to provide training and technical assistance on juvenile justice and child welfare systems coordination and integration to Models for Change states (over three years). (2008)

Child Welfare League of America (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of a project to manage three demonstration sites to design and implement model programs for the delivery of community-based alternative sanctions and services to youth involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice system (over two years). (2006)

Children and Youth Justice Center (Seattle, Washington)
$700,000 in support of acting as a lead entity for the Models for Change initiative in Washington State (over two years). (2007)

Children and Youth Justice Center (Seattle, Washington)
$165,000 in support of activities as the lead entity coordinating efforts to improve juvenile justice in Washington state. (2006)

Children's Home Association of Illinois (Peoria, Illinois)
$350,000 to support Peoria County's participation as a model demonstration site in Illinois Models for Change (over two years). (2008)

Clark County Juvenile Court (Vancouver, Washington)
$350,000 to reduce disproportionate minority contact, promote system coordination and integration across the juvenile justice and mental health systems, and create alternatives to formal court processing for truant young people as part of the Models for Change initiative in Washington (over two years). (2007)

Coalition for Juvenile Justice (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 in support of the annual Models for Change Working Conference. (2008)

Coalition for Juvenile Justice (Washington, D.C.)
$230,000 for the Second Annual Models for Change Working Conference. (2007)

Coalition for Juvenile Justice (Washington, D.C.)
$900,000 to sponsor the National Juvenile Justice Network (over three years). (2006)

Community Justice for Youth Institute (Chicago, Illinois)
$446,000 to promote community-based alternative sanctions and services under the Illinois Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2008)

Community Panels for Youth (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to expand a diversion program for juvenile offenders and position it as a community-based juvenile justice model (over two years). (2006)

Congreso de Latinos Unidos (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$260,000 to reduce disproportionate minority contact as part of Pennsylvania Models for Change in Philadelphia and Berks Counties (over two years). (2008)

Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (Braintree, Massachusetts)
$1,322,000 to provide training and technical assistance to state and local juvenile justice agencies on rehabilitation and treatment in the Models for Change states (over three years). (2008)

Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (Braintree, Massachusetts)
$1,100,900 in support of state and local efforts to improve mental health treatment and services to youth in contact with the juvenile justice system as part of the Models for Change initiative in Pennsylvania (over three years). (2007)

Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (Braintree, Massachusetts)
$585,000 in support of general operations and activities in the Models for Change sites (over three years). (2006)

Defender Association of Philadelphia Northeast Juvenile Defender Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$300,000 to support training and technical assistance on effective representation and aftercare advocacy under Pennsylvania Models for Change (over two years). (2008)

DuPage County, 18th Judicial Circuit Court Department of Probation and Court Services (Wheaton, Illinois)
$315,250 to support DuPage County's participation as a demonstration site in Illinois Models for Change (over two years). (2008)

Education Law Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$240,000 to provide training and technical assistance on aftercare to juvenile justice professionals as part of the Models for Change initiative in Pennsylvania (over two years). (2007)

Georgetown University Georgetown Public Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform's training and technical assistance for prosecutors, as part of the Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice initiative. (2008)

Georgetown University, Georgetown Public Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$70,000 in support of the creation of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and System Integration. (2007)

Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (Silver Spring, Maryland)
$22,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2007)

Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (Paxton, Illinois)
$300,000 to fund work on behalf of Illinois' Models for Change (over two years). (2009)

Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (Paxton, Illinois)
$76,000 in support of work on behalf of the Illinois Models for Change initiative (over seven months). (2008)

Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (Paxton, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of the Models for Change initiative in Illinois (over two years). (2006)

Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (Springfield, Illinois)
$400,000 in support of work as part of Illinois' Models for Change (over two years). (2009)

Jefferson Parish Community Justice Agency (Jefferson, Louisiana)
$350,000 in support of activities in Jefferson Parish as a local demonstration site in the Models for Change initiative in Louisiana (over two years). (2007)

John Howard Association (Chicago, Illinois)
$380,000 to track and monitor the progress of implementing reforms in youth corrections under the new Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice as part of the Illinois Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2007)

John Howard Association (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of activities to track and monitor the progress of implementing reforms in youth corrections under the new Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. (2006)

Justice Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$295,000 to support the re-design of the Models for Change website and provide strategic communications technical assistance to the Models for Change states. (2008)

Justice Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$675,000 in support of policy advocacy and communications planning for the Models for Change initiative (over three years). (2006)

Juvenile Court Judges' Commission (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
$300,000 to provide technical assistance and training to judges and probation officers in aftercare as part of the Models for Change initiative in Pennsylvania (over two years). (2007)

Juvenile Justice Initiative (Springfield, Illinois)
$450,000 in support of efforts to improve the juvenile justice system as part of the Models for Change initiative in Illinois (over two years). (2007)

Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (New Orleans, Louisiana)
$200,000 in support of advocacy and public education as part of the Louisiana Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2009)

Juvenile Law Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$840,000 in support of activities as the lead entity for the Pennsylvania Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2008)

Juvenile Law Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$248,500 in support of a project on information sharing to support the Models for Change initiative. (2007)

King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office (Seattle, Washington)
$192,000 in support of the Becca Task Force as part of Models for Change in Washington (over two years). (2008)

King County, Washington (Seattle, Washington)
$446,000 in support of reform efforts as part of the Models for Change initiative in Washington (over two years). (2007)

Lehigh County (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
$300,000 to support diversion efforts as part of the Models for Change initiative in Pennsylvania (over two years). (2009)

Louisiana Board of Regents (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
$1,200,000 in support of activities as the lead entity for Louisiana Models for Change (over three years). (2008)

Louisiana Board of Regents (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
$800,000 in support of activities as the lead entity for the Models for Change initiative in Louisiana (over two years). (2006)

Louisiana Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
$250,000 in support of the Louisiana Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2008)

Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections, Youth Services Office of Youth Development (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
$125,000 to coordinate state and local reform efforts as part of the Models for Change initiative in Louisiana (over 18 months). (2007)

Louisiana District Attorneys Association (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
$350,000 for activities in support of the Models for Change initiative in Louisiana (over two years). (2007)

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health (New Orleans, Louisiana)
$750,000 in support of the training and delivery of community evidence-based practices to identify and treat youth with mental health and substance abuse conditions who come into contact with the juvenile justice system (over three years). (2008)

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health (New Orleans, Louisiana)
$400,000 in support of the training and delivery of community evidence-based practices for the identification and treatment of youth with mental health and substance abuse conditions in contact with the juvenile justice system (over two years). (2006)

Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
$225,282 to design, develop, and plan a Juvenile Defense Practice and Policy Clinic (over 18 months). (2008)

Loyola University of Chicago Civitas ChildLaw Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$670,000 in support of activities as the lead entity for Illinois Models for Change (over two years). (2008)

Loyola University of Chicago, Civitas ChildLaw Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$750,000 in support of activities as the lead entity for the Models for Change initiative in Illinois (over three years). (2006)

Mental Health Association of Pennsylvania Collaborative for Youth (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
$100,000 in support of state and local efforts to involve families and communities in improving mental health services to juvenile justice-involved youth as part of the Models for Change initiative in Pennsylvania (over two years). (2007)

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of the development of a bill of rights for juvenile offenders. (2008)

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (New York, New York)
$50,000 in support of a bill of rights for juvenile offenders. (2007)

National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, Colorado)
$522,900 to provide information and assistance to members on juvenile justice policies with a focus on Models for Change resources and innovations (over two years). (2008)

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (Reno, Nevada)
$2,500,000 in support of technical assistance, data analysis, and coordination in support of the Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2008)

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (Reno, Nevada)
$1,250,000 for technical assistance, data analysis, and coordination in support of the Models for Change initiative. (2007)

National Council of La Raza (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 in support of the Latino Juvenile Justice Network activities in the Models for Change states (over three years). (2007)

National Juvenile Defender Center (Washington, D.C.)
$1,425,000 to provide training and technical assistance to state and local juvenile justice professionals and agencies in Models for Change states and to launch the Models for Change Juvenile Court Curriculum nationwide (over three years). (2009)

National Juvenile Defender Center (Washington, D.C.)
$1,640,000 to administer and manage the Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network (over three years). (2007)

National Juvenile Defender Center (Washington, D.C.)
$1,275,000 in support of activities to provide professional development and training to juvenile court personnel in adolescent development and enhance the capacity of juvenile defense counsel in the Models for Change states (over three years). (2006)

Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago, Illinois)
$377,000 in support of a collaborative effort by the University and the Cook County Juvenile Probation Department to administer mental health and substance abuse screening to all young people processed by the Department (over two years). (2006)

Northwestern University, Children and Family Justice Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$600,000 to support the Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2008)

Ogle County Juvenile Justice Council (Oregon, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of Ogle County's participation as a demonstration site in Illinois Models for Change (over two years). (2008)

Pennsylvania Council of Chief Juvenile Probation Officers (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$613,000 to improve the quality of education and career and technical skill training for delinquent youth during and after residential placement as part of the Models for Change initiative in Pennsylvania (over three years). (2008)

Pennsylvania Department of Education (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
$540,000 to implement the Models for Change Pennsylvania work plan, by improving educational outcomes for youth involved in the juvenile justice system (over two years). (2007)

Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
$300,000 to develop accredited professional certification programs for state employees in juvenile justice facilities and improve the coordination of mental health services (over two years). (2006)

Philadelphia Department of Human Services (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$296,000 in support of the Reintegration Reform Initiative as part of Models for Change in Pennsylvania (over two years). (2007)

Pierce County Juvenile Court (Tacoma, Washington)
$400,000 in support of efforts to reduce disproportionate minority contact and achieve system collaboration, as part of the Models for Change initiative in Washington State (over two years). (2007)

Policy Research (Delmar, New York)
$3,240,000 for the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, to provide support to the states participating in the Models for Change Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network (over two years). (2008)

Policy Research (Delmar, New York)
$150,000 for the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice in support of project management for two demonstration sites in Illinois to design and implement model programs for the delivery of community-based alternative sanctions and services to youth (2006)

Policy Research (Delmar, New York)
$1,860,000 in support of work under the Models for Change juvenile justice systems reform initiative (over three years). (2006)

Policy Research, Inc. (Delmar, New York)
$1,500,000 to administer and manage the Mental Health Action Network (over three years). (2007)

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton, New Jersey)
$182,325 for the publication of a juvenile justice volume of the Future of Children journal. (2007)

Spokane Juvenile Court (Spokane, Washington)
$125,000 in support of planning for systems integration and truancy reform activities as part of the Models for Change initiative in Washington. (2007)

Supreme Court of Louisiana (New Orleans, Louisiana)
$150,000 in support of efforts to improve statewide programs to divert children and families from formal juvenile court involvement (over 18 months). (2006)

TeamChild (Seattle, Washington)
$250,000 in support of efforts to improve juvenile indigent defense in Washington State as part of the Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2007)

Technical Assistance Collaborative (Boston, Massachusetts)
$300,000 in support of training and technical assistance to improve the organization, financing, and delivery of mental health services to juvenile justice-involved youth in the Models for Change states (over two years). (2007)

Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$2,655,000 in support of a project to oversee and coordinate the design and implementation of research activities related to the Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2007)

Temple University Department of Psychology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$735,000 in support of research on racial and ethnic disparities as part of Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice (over two years). (2008)

Temple University, Department of Psychology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$600,000 in support of a project to manage and coordinate research activities in the Models for Change initiative. (2007)

Temple University, Department of Psychology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$1,500,000 in support of the Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice (over three years). (2006)

University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$90,000 in support of an assessment to determine if the City of Chicago's new Juvenile Intervention and Support Center can be the subject of a robust outcome evaluation. (2007)

University of Massachusetts at Worcester (Worcester, Massachusetts)
$1,380,000 to provide technical assistance and training for the National Youth Screening Assistance Project (over three years). (2009)

University of New Orleans (New Orleans, Louisiana)
$150,000 in support of data collection and analysis for tracking juvenile justice reform in Louisiana (over 18 months). (2006)

University of Washington School of Law (Seattle, Washington)
$225,000 to help representatives from Washington State Native American tribes develop strategies to address the needs of Native American children in the state and tribal juvenile justice systems as part of Washington's Models for Change. (2009)

University of Washington, Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy (Seattle, Washington)
$400,000 in support of community capacity-building for the identification and treatment of youth with mental health and substance abuse conditions in contact with the juvenile justice system as part of the Models for Change initiative (over 2 years). (2007)

Vera Institute of Justice (New York, New York)
$600,000 support for data analysis and facilitated strategic planning in Models for Change states (over two years). (2008)

Vera Institute of Justice (New York, New York)
$250,000 for data analysis and facilitated strategic planning in Models for Change states (over 18 months). (2006)

W. Haywood Burns Institute (San Francisco, California)
$350,000 to reduce disproportionate minority contact and racial and ethnic disparities in the Models for Change core and action network states (over two years). (2008)

W. Haywood Burns Institute (San Francisco, California)
$230,000 in support of activities to reduce disproportionate minority contact and racial and ethnic disparities in the Models for Change states (over 18 months). (2006)

Washington State Department of Social & Health Services Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration (Olympia, Washington)
$100,000 to develop a plan to reduce disproportionate minority contact in the state's juvenile justice system as part of Models for Change in Washington. (2008)

Washington State University (Pullman, Washington)
$300,000 in support of research on truancy policy and practice as part of the Washington Models for Change initiative (over eighteen months). (2008)

Washington State's Administrative Office of the Courts (Olympia, Washington)
$380,000 to track juvenile justice reform under the Washington Models for Change initiative (over two years). (2008)

Youth Outreach Services (Chicago, Illinois)
$350,000 in support of Cook County's participation as a model demonstration site in Illinois Models for Change (over two years). (2008)