<<

19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services

PROGRAM 1 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 1 Still Delivering Service Beyond Your EXPECTATIONS

Recreation & Clothing & Health & Games Uniforms Personal Care

1-800-334-9880 www.bobbarker.com

2 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services 19TH NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Youth Development in Juvenile Justice: Promising Approaches, Positive Conditions and Safe and Protective Environments Sponsors

National Partnership for Juvenile Services With a mission to provide professional development, deliver technical assistance and promote best practices and standards to the field of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, the National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) will positively impact youth, families and communities and will be recognized as the foremost authority in the field of juvenile justice.

NPJS Executive Leadership Team: Carol Cramer Brooks, CEO Randy Farmer, President - Council for Educators of At-Risk and Delinquent Youth Rich Brunner, President - Council for Juvenile Justice Trainers Anne M. Nelsen, President - Council for Juvenile Corrections Terry J. Martinek, President - Council for Juvenile Detention

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR Co-Sponsors!!! OJJDP’s National Center for Youth in Custody (NC4YC) Coalition for Juvenile Justice Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts Kentucky Juvenile Justice Advisory Board JJAB Subcommittee on Equity and Justice for All Youth The Bob Barker Company

ce Adv sti iso Ju ry e il B n o e a v r d u J JJAB

S

e h e t k Kentucky u in o Y g r Ch u ange for O

2 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 3 AGENDA Sunday, October 20, 2013 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM reGISTRATION OPEN GHE - C 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM cJJ SOUTHERN REGION WELCOME LUNCHEON COMBS CHANDLER 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM cJJ SOUTHERN REGION CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS 1. New Member / Refresher SAG Training TAYLOR 2. Drilling Down into DMC: A Necessary Step for Impact McCREARY 3. Judicial Intervention to Address MH and/or SA BECKHAM 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm NPJS Joint Council Meeting for Youth in Custody Facilities* NUNN 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm NPJS Education Council Meeting* CLEMENTS 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm NPJS Training Council Meeting* WILLIS 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm NPJS Critical Issues and Policy Direction* NUNN 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CJJ Southern Region Business Meeting CLEMENTS 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm JJ Specialist Meeting CLEMENTS 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm DMC Specialist Meeting WILLIS

Monday, October 21, 2013 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM reGISTRATION OPEN GHE - C 8:00 am – 9:45 am NPJS Membership & Marketing Committee Meeting* BROWN 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CJJ PLENARY: ADOLESCENT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT MCCREARY Speaker: Jonathan Cloud, Planning and Management Consultant Child Protection/Youth Development/Juvenile Justice 10:00 am – 12:00 pm NPJS Standards Committee Meeting* BROWN 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Exhibit Hall Set-up GRAND HALL 10:30 am – 10:45 am Sponsored CJJ Break HALLWAY AT McCREARY 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM cJJ SOUTHERN REGIONAL CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS 4. LGBTQ Youth and Delinquency TAYLOR 5. Adolescent Brain Development MORROW 6. Relationship between Trauma and Delinquency BECKHAM 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own) 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM cJJ SOUTHERN REGIONAL CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS 7. Impact of Emerging Synthetic Drugs TAYLOR 8. The School to Prison Pipeline: What We Can Do About It MORROW 9. Working Effectively with Girls in the JJ System BECKHAM 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM NPJS PRE-SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS 10. No Such Thing as a Bad Kid BROWN 11. XXX-ploitation and Expendable People WILLIS 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm NPJS Board of Directors* CLEMENTS 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM cJJ CLOSING SESSION MCCREARY Speaker: Hasan Davis, Commissioner Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM oPENING RECEPTION / VENDOR MEET & GREET GRAND HALL 4 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services AGENDA Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:00 AM - 5:15 PM reGISTRATION CENTER OPEN GHE – B & C 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM coffee HOUSE WITH THE VENDors GRAND HALL 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM BREAKFAST IN VENDOR hall GRAND HALL 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM POSTER SESSIONs GRAND HALL 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM coNCURRENT SESSIONS 12. Judicial Track Workshop ~ Bullying, Trauma, & Tech CARROLL FORD 10:00 Am – 10:45 Am Exhibit Hall GRAND HALL 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM coNCURRENT WORKSHOPS 13. Preparing for an Event that We Hope Never Happens: TAYLOR Emergency Management 14. What Youth Care Professionals Should Know STANLEY About Developmental Psychology 15. Gaining Perspectives through Art MORROW 16. Distance, Blended, and Student-Centered Learning: WILSON 17. Writing New Chapters in Their Lives: Starting a Book Club WILLIS and Writing Workshop for Incarcerated Youth 18. Boomer XYZ: Communication & Learning Techniques BROWN for Our Juvenile Justice Generations 19. Juvenile Suicide in Custody: Guiding Principles to McCREARY Prevention & Critical Components of a Viable Prevention Program 20. Intro to PREA Audit Instrument and Process (Part 1) BECKHAM 21. Relationship between Trauma and Delinquency: CARROLL FORD A Look at Crossover Youth 22. Exploring Your Leadership Style – Part 1 CLEMENTS 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own) 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Kentucky Juvenile Code Task Force Meeting COMBS-CHANDLER 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM coNCURRENT WORKSHOPS 23. Understanding and Addressing Youth Violence McCREARY in Custodial Settings 24. “In the Midst of Something Subtle” – Addressing MORROW Disproportionate Minority Contact in the JJ System 25. Kids Are Different: Ending Life without Parole Sentences TAYLOR 26. Working with Difficult Personalities WILSON 27. Digits in Detention!!! WILLIS 28. Using Risk Assessment to Conceptualize Your Client BROWN 29. Animal Therapy in Juvenile Justice STANLEY 30. Intro to PREA Audit Instrument and Process (Part 2) BECKHAM 31. The Effects of Domestic Violence Exposure CARROLL FORD on Children and Adolescents 32. Exploring Your Leadership Style – Part 2 CLEMENTS 4 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 5 AGENDA 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM WELCOME TO KENTUCKY & PLENARY SESSION BALLROOM A J. Michael Brown, Secretary, Kentucky Justice Cabinet Jerry Abramson, Lt. Governor, Commonwealth of Kentucky KIDS IN CAGES: THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH IN THE ADULT CJ SYSTEM Michele Deitch, J.D., Senior Lecturer University of Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONALS AWARD BALLROOM A PRESENTATION AND RECEPTION - PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP

Wednesday, October 23, 2012 7:00 am - 5:00 PM registration Center OpeN GHE – B & C 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM coffee IN THE EXHIBIT hall GRAND HALL 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM coNCURRENT WORKSHOPS 33. When We Are Good, We Are Good; But When We Are Bad… JONES 35. Responding Appropriately to Youth that Misbehave SEGELL 36. Implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model FRENCH to Decrease Early Involvement into the Delinquency System 37. The Complexity of At-Risk Education Program Design WILLIS 38. Incorporate Adolescent Brain Research into Your Staff Training (4-Hour Session) BROWN 39. Effective Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: COE An Interdisciplinary Approach 40. Application of the PREA Audit Instrument BECKHAM 41. Truancy Diversion Program CARROLL FORD 42. Coaching for Success – Part 1 (4-Hour Session) CLEMENTS 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM coffee IN THE EXHIBIT hall GRAND HALL 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM coNCURRENT WORKSHOPS 43. Treating Mental Health Needs of Youth in Confinement COE 44. Suicide Amongst Youth STOPHER 45. Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, & Stress Management SEGELL 46. Working Effectively with Girls in the Juvenile Justice System FRENCH 47. Life-School Inside Your School: Transform Your Detention Center to Meet Needs WILLIS 48. Incorporate Adolescent Brain Research BROWN into Your Staff Training (4-Hour Session) 49. Addressing the PREA Training Standards JONES 50. PREA Policy Development and Implementation BECKHAM 51. Campbell County Status Offense Program CARROLL FORD 52. Coaching for Success – Part 2 (4-Hour Session) CLEMENTS 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)

6 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services AGENDA 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM coNCURRENT WORKSHOPS 53. Addressing Disproportionate Minority Contact: COE 54. Applying Key Findings from the Pathways STOPHER to Desistance Study Regarding Serious Adolescent Offenders 55. The Newcastle Early Intervention SEGELL and Proportionate Response Model 56. Evidence-Based Programming?? Statistics?? Ugh!! FRENCH 58. Basic Platform Skills BROWN 59. Positive Perceptions: Enhancing the Effectiveness of E-Learning JONES 60. First Response to Sexual Assault BECKHAM 61. Reclaiming Futures CARROLL FORD 62. Everyone Is a Leader CLEMENTS 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM coNCURRENT WORKSHOPs 63. Jail Removal of Youth in Adult Criminal Justice Systems: COE 64. LGBTQI Youth: Language and Cultural Differences JONES 65. Wild Beasts & Natural Fools: A History of the Treatment STOPHER of the Mentally Ill in Detention 66. Juvenile Probation and the Native American Community SEGELL 68. Cultural Sensitivity and Competency BROWN 69. Family: A Part of the Re-Entry Process for Youth FRENCH 70. PREA Toolkit in Audit Readiness BECKHAM 71. Family Engagement CARROLL FORD 72. Now that I Am Here: Which Way Do I Go CLEMENTS

Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:00 am - 11:00 aM registration Center Open GHE – B & C 8:30 am – 10:30 aM concurrent Workshops 74. Flip the Script: Teaching Pro-Social Leadership Skills STOPHER to Students w/ Bullying Behaviors 75. Field Training Instructors Program COE 76. Effective and Professional Communication with LGBTI Youth FRENCH 77. Managing Change JONES 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM closiNG SESSION GRAND BALLROOM A Jimmy Wayne, Singer & Motivational Speaker

www.nc4yc.org 6 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 7 OPENING CEREMONY & RECEPTION

Monday, October 21, 2013 • 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm • Location: Grand Hall

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to relax and network with other professionals in your field. Come and enjoy visiting with exhibitors and experts in the field of juvenile justice.

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 • 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm • Location: Ballroom A

The Distinguished Professionals Award Presentation and Reception will honor professionals in the field for their vision and leadership in supporting Juvenile Services.

Sponsored by: Bob Barker Company, Inc

8 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services CLOSING SESSION Thursday, October 24 • 10:45 am - 12:00 pm • Location: Grand Ballroom A

Keynote Speaker - Jimmy Wayne “” is more than another hit record “I became very for Jimmy Wayne. Much more. independent. I had to depend “For 13 years, I have been singing that song,” on myself. Folks he explains. “I sang it on the prison yard when I ask me why I worked at the prison. Even though I didn’t write don’t drink. it, I sang it at writers’ nights in Nashville. It is It’s because the song that taught me how to play the guitar. I needed and In 2002, I sang ‘Sara Smile’ for Scott Borchetta, wanted to be and he gave me a record deal. This song has very conscious had a major impact on my life.” of what I was doing at all Jimmy Wayne’s remake of the Hall & Oates pop times. That’s classic is now the centerpiece of an album that what helped me showcases his formidable talents as both a to survive.” vocalist and a songwriter. His soulful singing permeates every note of such soaring, powerful A North Carolina ballads as “All the Time in the World,” “Belongs couple named Russell and Beatrice Costner took to You” and “Counting the Days.” He rocks him in and encouraged his evolving love of splendidly on “There’s a Memory” and “Things music. At the time, he was singing and writing I Believe.” in a variety of styles, rock, country and even rap and opera. As a songwriter, Jimmy Wayne is uplifting and inspirational. In 2008, Jimmy Wayne’s career Today, Jimmy uses his story and his music was stone cold. “Do You Believe Me Now” turned to inspire people who work with at-risk and him into one of the greatest comeback stories troubled youth. Don’t miss the opportunity to in modern country-music history. hear and meet an incredible individual.

“It’s been amazing,” he says gratefully. “It just goes to show you what perseverance can do. That, plus having a great team.” Let Abel Screening help you MEET YOUR PREA Adversity is nothing new to this gifted HIRING REQUIREMENTS artist. As his fans know, Jimmy Wayne survived a turbulent, abusive childhood. Contact Larry Skinner His father abandoned the family. His mother went to prison, and he was 575-635-9574 shuttled to a series of foster homes. His [email protected] ® stepfather tried to murder him. He was THE DIANA SCREEN DianaScreen.com a homeless teen, living by his wits on the street. The Sexual Risk Screen That Screens in the Safest Staff to Work with Youth

8 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 9 WORKSHOPS BY TRACK CURRENT & EMERGING issues Parole Sentences for Youth • What Youth Care Professionals Should • Working Effectively with Girls in the Know About Developmental Psychology Juvenile Justice System • Juvenile Suicide in Custody: Guiding • Gaining Perspectives through Art Principles to Prevention and Critical • Wild Beasts and Natural Fools: A History Components of a Viable Prevention of the Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Program Detention • Understanding and Addressing Youth Violence in Custodial Settings Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) • When We Are Good, We Are Very Good, but • Introduction to PREA Audit Instrument & When We Are Bad… Process, Part 1 & Part 2 • Responding Appropriately to Youth that • Application of the PREA Audit Misbehave Instrument • Jail Removal of Youth in Adult Criminal • PREA Policy Development and Justice Systems: A State Trends Update Implementation • Evidence Based Programming?? Statistics? • Addressing the PREA Training Standards Ugh!! The Who, What, When, Where and • First Response to Sexual Assault How? • PREA Toolkit in Audit Readiness • Addressing Disproportionate Minority • Effective and Professional Communication Contact: An Important Tool to Improve the with LGBTI Youth Juvenile Justice System • Suicide Amongst Youth STAFF TRAINING • Working with Difficult Personalities • Distance, Blended and Student Centered • Preparing for an Event We Hope Never Learning: Instruction in the New Happens: Emergency Management Millennium • Applying Key Findings from the Pathways • Boomer XYZ: Communication and Learning to Desistance Study: A Study of Serious Techniques for our Juvenile Justice Adolescent Offenders Generations • “In The Midst of Something Subtle”- • Incorporate Adolescent Brain Research into Addressing Disproportionate Minority Your Staff Training Contact in the Juvenile Justice System • Field Training Instructors Program • Treating Mental Health Needs of Youth In • Basic Platform Skills Confinement • The Newcastle Early Intervention and EDUCATION Proportionate Response Model • Digits in Detention!!! • Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, • The Complexity of At-Risk Education Questioning, and Intersex (LGBTQI) Youth- Program Design Language and Cultural Differences • Flip The Script: Teach Pro-Social Leadership • Cultural Sensitivity & Competency Skills to Students with Bullying Behaviors • Compassion Fatigue, Burnout & Stress • Writing New Chapters In their Lives: Management Starting a Book Club and Writing Workshop • Kids Are Different: Ending Life without for Incarcerated Youth

10 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services WORKSHOPS BY TRACK • Life-School Inside Your School: Transform • Effective Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: An Your Detention Center to Meet Needs Interdisciplinary Approach • Positive Perceptions: Enhancing the • Animal Therapy in Juvenile Justice Effectiveness of E-Learning • Using Risk Assessment to Conceptualize • Gaining Perspectives through Art Your Client • Family: A Part of the Reentry Process LEADERSHIP • Now that I Am Here: Which Way Do I Go JUDICIAL ISSUES • Everyone's a Leader • Relationship Between Trauma and • Coaching for Success Delinquency: A Look At Crossover Youth • Exploring Your Leadership Style • The Effects of Domestic Violence Exposure • Managing Change on Children and Adolescents • Bullying, Trauma and Technology: JUVENILE PROBATION Incidence, Impact and Intervention • Implementing the Crossover Youth Practice • Truancy Diversion Program Model to Decrease Early Involvement into • Campbell County Status Offense Program the Delinquency System • Reclaiming Futures • Juvenile Probation and the Native American • Family Engagement Community THe Solution

Certified training programs in the telecommunications field, supplying short-term training for long-term careers. 21 65,000 90% YEARS Students completed certification

Reducing recidivism creating opportunites changing lives visit our booth for more information and www.ctechprograms.com

10 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 11 CJJ SOUTHERN REGION WORKSHOPS

CJJ SOUTHERN REGION WORKSHOPS Intellectual Disabilities; Juvenile Justice C JJ Workshops ( S un/Mon) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2013 Advisory Board 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) 1. NEW MEMBER / REFRESHER SAG TRAINING This session will highlight a model that works Lisa Hutchinson, Ph.D., Developmental Services with judicial intervention and community support Group (AR) to identify youth with mental health/substance abuse issues and get them and their families the Room: taYLOR (3RD FL) resources and support they need. This session is geared toward new SAG members CJJ SOUTHERN REGION WORKSHOPS that are just starting out or seasoned members MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013 that may need a refresher course. Members will 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM learn about the history of the JJDPA, roles and responsibilities of SAG members and the Four 4. lGBTQ YOUTH AND DELINQUENCY Core Requirement of the JJDPA. Bernadette Brown, Senior Program Specialist, 2. DRILLING DOWN INTO DMC: A NECESSARY National Council on Crime and Delinquency STEP FOR IMPACT Room: TAYLOR (3RD FL) Dr. Cherie Dawson Edwards, University of Louisville, Department of Justice Administration; This session will focus on issues around LGBT youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare Dr. George Higgins, University of Louisville, systems. Participants will learn about the factors Department of Justice Administration that elevate the risk of LGBTQ youth entering the juvenile justice system including biased policies Laura McCauley, Kentucky DMC & Title V and a lack of cultural competency that unfairly Specialist criminalizes LGBTQ youth. The presenter will Room: McCREARY (3RD FL) engage participants in a discussion about how three key ingredients -- multi-agency and community This session is geared towards individuals with collaboration, inclusive nondiscrimination some understanding of disproportionate minority policies, and family strengthening strategies – contact (DMC). Members will be provided with in- are helping agencies address the unique needs depth information on the DMC Reduction Model, of LGBTQ youth and reducing their involvement contributing mechanisms and the importance in the juvenile justice system. and necessity for DMC data collection, analysis and assessment. 5. aDOLESCENT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT: PROMISING APPROACHES TO UNLEASHING 3. JUDICIAL INTERVENTION TO ADDRESS THE POWER TO DO GREAT THINGS MENTAL HEALTH AND/OR SUBSTANCE ABUSE Jonathan Cloud, Planning and Management Consultant (WI) Hon. Cathy Prewitt, District Judge for Whitley & McCreary Counties (KY); Reclaiming Futures Room: MORROW (3RD FL) Judicial Fellow for Whitley County (KY); and This session will discuss “deepening the practice Vice Chair KY Juvenile Justice Advisory Board of justice,” as it relates to the adolescent brain. Kari Collins, Policy Advisor, Department Expanding on the plenary session, the presenter for Behavioral Health, Developmental and will delve further into the three key neural systems, 12 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services CJJ SOUTHERN REGION WORKSHOPS

aspirations, and the development of greatness. Resource Officer, Anderson County Kentucky

C JJ Workshops ( S un/Mon) 6. relatioNSHIP BETWEEN TRAUMA AND Joe Gutmann, Educator, Jefferson County Public DELINQUENCY: A LOOK AT CROSSOVER Schools and retired Prosecutor YOUTH Deb Bennett, Regional Coordinator, CDWs, Hon. Joan L. Byer, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts Court (KY) Preston Elrod, Professor and Division Chair, Christopher A. Mallett, Ph.D., Esq., LISW, Undergraduate Studies, EKU Cleveland State University (OH) Room: MORROW (3RD FL) Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) This panel will present information on the school Research suggests that a presumably high number to prison pipeline and examine the following of youth served by the court system are Crossover issues that contribute to this phenomenon: Youth (i.e. youth that have experienced the trauma (1) Systemic failure to apply our knowledge of of maltreatment and engaged in delinquency.) child development when dealing with children’s This workshop will identify key characteristic problems, (2) The development of the “school of crossover youth, look at system experiences, prison” through the use of police to maintain order court outcomes, and implications of research. and solve problems (3)The increasing reliance on Promising approaches will also be discussed for law and legal remedies to deal with children’s this type of population. problems and (4) The operation of the juvenile justice process (why it should be avoided if at all CJJ SOUTHERN REGION WORKSHOPS possible). The panel presentations will present a MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013 case for smarter responses to children’s problems 1:30 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. and provide arguments for changing child harming 7. iMPACT OF EMERGING SYNTHETIC DRUGS systems into child helping systems.

Van Ingram, Executive Director, KY Office of 9. WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH GIRLS IN THE Drug Control Policy JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM Jeremy Triplett, Forensic Laboratory Supervisor, Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, President, National KY State Police Crittenton Foundation Room: TAYLOR (3RD FL) Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL)

The session will be an overview of Kentucky’s This workshop will provide an intellectual and history as it relates to synthetic drugs and what practical framework for working effectively with has been done to address the problem. The girls in the juvenile justice system. Through real presenters will also discuss the pharmacology of life experiences of girls in the system participants these drugs and what new threats are emerging. will learn about girls’ unique pathways to delinquency including and gain important insights 8. the SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE: THE from recent research on what girls say they need PROBLEM AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT to turn their lives around. Results from the 2012 pilot administration of the Adverse Childhood Ed Brown, Educator, Bellevue Learning Center, Experiences questionnaire in Crittenton agencies Madison County Public Schools with girls in 18 states will be discussed. Examples Paul Blackhurst, Deputy Sheriff, School of innovative programs and practices will be shared. 12 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 13 MONDAY 1:00 PM-5:00 PM WORKSHOPS

NPJS PRE-SYMP0SIUM WORKSHOPS the second most lucrative criminal enterprise in Monday 1:00 pm - 5:00 MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013 the world, second only to drug trafficking. This 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM workshop will pay specific attention to youth, vulnerabilities, the online grooming process, and 10. NO SUCH THING AS A BAD KID: THE POWER recognizing the signs of trafficking. Runaways, OF A STRENGTH-BASED APPROACH IN throwaways, and vulnerable children fall prey RESHAPING THE LIVES OF TROUBLED to traffickers, and systems working with youth CHILDREN AND YOUTH need to “look beneath the surface” to recognize potential victims. Charles Appelstein, MSW, Appelstein Training Resources, LLC (NH) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Room: BROWN (2ND FL) BREAKFAST WITH THE VENDORS AND Strength-based practice is an emerging approach POSTER SESSION to helping at-risk youth and their families that is exceptionally positive and inspiring. Its focus is 12. BULLYING , TRAUMA AND TECHNOLOGY: on strength-building rather than flaw-fixing. It INCIDENCE, IMPACT AND INTERVENTION begins with the belief that every individual has or can develop strengths and utilize past successes Joel Griffith, Prevent Child Abuse KY to mitigate problem behavior and enhance functioning. This comprehensive workshop Rebecca Hale, Prevent Child Abuse KY will highlight many of the key principles and techniques of this transforming modality. Areas Room: CARROLL FORD (2ND FL) covered include: What is strength-based practice & the power of a positive attitude & culture; While bullying is not a new circumstance among strength-based communication principles and children and youth, as a society we are becoming techniques - including reframing, using solution- more aware of the prevalence and traumatic impact focused questions and inspirational metaphors; to victims. With regard to bullying, access to self-esteem building & activities for at-risk youth; technology has not been a positive development. how to help cognitively inflexible young people; On the contrary, cyber-bullying has expanded the the importance of being family centered; why, opportunity for bullying; creating an anonymous how, and when to use incentive plans; respectful and seemingly inescapable venue to bully victims. limit setting; and a host of creative cognitive This workshop will review research and data behavioral strategies. regarding the incidence and impact of bullying, with particular emphasis on cyber-bullying. 11. XXX-PLOITATION AND EXPENDABLE PEOPLE Effective strategies and tools to reduce cyber- bullying will be presented. Adriane Reesey, Broward College, Department of Criminal Justice (FL) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Meeting Room: WILLIS (2ND FL) This workshop provides an overview of the 13. PREPARING FOR AN EVENT WE HOPE NEVER crime of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking which HAPPENS: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT encompasses every demographic, but focuses on the extremely vulnerable juvenile. The commercial Charles J. Kehoe, ACSW, CCE (VA) sex trade and human trafficking has become 14 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services TUESDAY 10:45 AM-12:15 PM WORKSHOPS

Room: TAYLOR (3RD FL) 15. GAINING PERSPECTIVES THROUGH ART T uesday 10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Juvenile detention and correctional facilities are as Joseph T. Szafarowicz, JTS ArtWorks, LLC (OH) vulnerable to emergencies as any other public or private facility. How administrators and employees Jan Revill, JTS ArtWorks, LLC (OH) respond during a crisis can mean the difference between life and death. Having emergency plans Room: MORROW (3RD FL) are of little value if they have not been developed in a partnership with law enforcement agencies, This creative session will focus on art integration fire services, first responders, and other adult and techniques; implementing lesson plans that will be juvenile correctional agencies. Regular training provided as a hands on activity; the relationship and actual drills ensure that employees know between art and academics; the fascinating their responsibilities and are prepared to respond link between art, academics and the private to a crisis. sector; and the potential for art exhibitions to bring communities together in a win, win, win Participants in this interactive workshop will proposition; detentions centers win, youth win identify various types of emergencies, identify the and parents win. essential elements of emergency plans and identify agencies they should engage as they develop their 16. DISTANCE, BLENDED AND STUDENT emergency management plans. CENTERED LEARNING: INSTRUCTION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM 14. WHAT YOUTH CARE PROFESSIONALS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DEVELOPMENTAL Suzanne Hopf, Dept. of Public Advocacy (KY) PSYCHOLOGY Charles Appelstein, MSW, Appelstein Training Room: WILSON (3RD FL) Resources, LLC (NH) Effective instruction relies not only on choosing Room: STANLEY (3RD FL) appropriate content, but delivering the content in a manner that enhances the recipient’s A good knowledge of developmental psychology understanding. This session will focus on can greatly influence how professionals assess and changing the delivery method of instruction respond to children, youth, and adults presenting from the traditional lecture style model to online with serious emotional and/or behavioral issues. learning, blended learning and student centered This entertaining, (almost) jargon-free workshop learning instruction. It will open with a brief examines some of the key developmental periods, overview of current relevant learning theories and illustrates how failure to meet developmental and will also introduce the participants to session tasks and milestones can be manifested later in life. planning, and provide resources for the instructors Topics covered include: How to help neurologically for developing on-line, blended learning, and inflexible young people, the implications of failed student centered learning instruction. Participants bonding, the origin and treatment of character will be introduced to various delivery methods disorders, why at-risk kids have trouble making so that they can choose the most appropriate and sustaining friends – and what to do about methods for their needs. The session will this, why “splitting” and staff dissention are often also consider various resources available to prevalent in child welfare settings– and how to instructors. Participants will explore their own counteract this; and a new and developmentally- learning philosophies so that their instructional friendly definition of success in the work with development techniques can be best tailored to at-risk children, youth, and their families. reflect their teaching styles. Best practices will be 14 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 15 TUESDAY 10:45 AM-12:15 PM WORKSHOPS

discussed and examples of these practices will be Room: BROWN (2ND FL) shown to the participants. Additional resources will be provided for students to review. One potentially challenging aspect of our profession’s work environment is the blending of 17. WRITING NEW CHAPTERS IN THEIR LIVES: multiple generations in the office or facility. Rarely STARTING A BOOK CLUB AND WRITING have we seen such a myriad of generations side by WORKSHOP FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH side. To help address this challenge, “Boomer XYZ: T uesday 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Communication and Learning Techniques for Our Tara Libert, Free Minds Book Club & Writing Juvenile Justice Generations” was developed. This Workshop (DC) highly interactive session is focused on providing professionals, especially trainers and leaders, with Kelli Taylor, Free Minds Book Club & Writing generational skills. “Boomer XYZ” is designed Workshop (DC) to identify the key traits of each generation in our workplace, including communication and Keela Hailes, Free Minds Book Club & Writing collaboration preferences. It addresses areas Workshop (DC) such as technology, learning preferences and styles, perceptions of other generations, and Room: WILLIS (2ND FL) expectations. In addition, the course incorporates a cross-generational small group exercise to This session will provide an overview of the reinforce new skills. Regardless of your own unique program model created and developed generation, “Boomer XYZ” provides easy-to-apply by the nonprofit Free Minds Book Club & Writing skills in communicating, collaborating, and team- Workshop (www.freemindsbookclub.org) as well building. Whether you watched “The Patty Duke as strategies for implementing the program in Show,” “M*A*S*H,” “Cosby,” or “The Big Bang juvenile facilities. Free Minds holds a book club Theory,” come learn about current and future session for 16 and 17 year old boys who have been generations in Juvenile Justice! incarcerated as adults at the DC jail every week. The youth voluntarily choose to participate and read 19. JUVENILE SUICIDE IN CUSTODY: GUIDING and discuss books relating to their own lives and PRINCIPLES TO PREVENTION AND CRITICAL write poetry. The community is engaged through COMPONENTS OF A VIABLE PREVENTION monthly “Write Nights” where a diverse group of PROGRAM volunteers gather to read Free Minds members poems and provide positive feedback to the new Lindsay M. Hayes, National Center on writers. The comments are then brought to the Institutions and Alternatives (MA) youth at the jail. Through these activities Free Minds members improve their literacy, learn the Room: McCREARY (3RD FL) skills of creative expression and self awareness and learn how to interact positively in a group setting Although juvenile suicide in custody is an along with building compassion and empathy. infrequent event, it has a devastating impact on the victim’s family and those entrusted with the 18. BOOMER XYZ: COMMUNICATION AND care and custody of youth. Many of these deaths LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR OUR JUVENILE are preventable. This workshop will provide direct JUSTICE GENERATIONS care, health care (medical/mental health), and detention/correctional facility administrators an Ken Jenkins, Ada County Juvenile Court Services overview of juvenile suicide in custody, current (ID) national research, as well as offer guiding principles for suicide prevention and critical 16 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services TUESDAY 1:30 PM-3:30 PM WORKSHOPS

components to developing and/or revising a viable Room: CLEMENTS (2ND FL) suicide prevention program. Regardless of the positions we hold in our 20. INTRODUCTION TO PREA AUDIT organizations, we are all leaders – leaders of INSTRUMENT & PROCESS – PART 1 (PART organizations, leaders of subordinate staff, leaders 2 AT 1:30 P.M.) of the youth in our care, etc. In this session the concepts of management and leadership will be

Caleb Asbridge, The Moss Group (DC) explored and an overview of leadership styles T uesday 1:30 pm -3:30 will be presented. Participants will complete Wendy Estano, Independent Consultant & PREA the Shared Leadership Questionnaire in order to Auditor (AR) determine their personal leadership style related to the amount of task-oriented vs. relationship- Joshua Delaney, Attorney, U.S. Department of oriented behaviors they tend to use. Participants Justice (DC) will have an opportunity to look at and discuss the impact of these styles on the effectiveness of Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) other people within the organization.

This session will provide an overview of the PREA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 Audit Instrument for juvenile facilities and the 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM PREA audit process. Participants will receive an introduction to the instrument itself and receive 23. Understanding and Addressing some basic information on how the instrument Youth Violence in Custodial Settings will be applied in auditing situations. Michele Deitch, Lyndon B. Johnson School of 21. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAUMA AND Public Affairs, University of Texas DELINQUENCY: A LOOK AT CROSSOVER YOUTH McCREARY (3RD FL)

Hon. Joan L. Byer, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, Many JJ agencies are dealing with the challenge of Family Division One (KY) managing a juvenile population that is increasingly violent and emotionally or mentally impaired. Room: CARROLL FORD (2ND FL) Levels of youth violence in custodial settings are rising, often alongside increasing rates of injuries Research suggests that a presumably high number to staff. This session will highlight a recent study of youth served by the court system are Crossover of youth violence in Texas’s state-run secure Youth (i.e. youth that have experienced the trauma facilities. Using Texas-specific data as an example, of maltreatment and engaged in delinquency.) the session will identify the kinds of data that This workshop will identify key characteristic agencies should be tracking to assess levels of of crossover youth, look at system experiences, violence within facilities and trends that should court outcomes, and implications of research. raise concern for administrators. The presenter Promising approaches will also be discussed for will discuss a multi-tiered behavior management this type of population. model, based on nationally-recognized best practices, that incorporate strategies to prevent 22. EXPLORING YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE – youth violence and to respond effectively when PART 1 misbehavior and violence occurs. Ineffective practices such as the use of isolation, restraints, Pam A. Clark, MSW, NC4YC (IN) and force will also be discussed. 16 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 17 TUESDAY 1:30 PM-3:30 PM WORKSHOPS

24. “In The Midst of Something Subtle”- parole sentences for children. Recent Supreme Addressing Disproportionate Court decisions, research into brain science and Minority Contact in the Juvenile adolescent development, shifting public opinion Justice System and new approaches in several states have led to a new day in the way that we hold children Robert Lee, Cook County Juvenile Temporary accountable when they commit serious crimes. In Detention Center (IL) 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. Florida

T uesday 1:30 pm - 3:30 that life without parole sentences for youth who do Melinda Maciel, Cook County Juvenile not commit homicides are unconstitutional, and Temporary Detention Center (IL) just two years later, in Miller v. Alabama the Court barred mandatory life without parole sentences Room: MORROW (3RD FL) for youth. With over 2,500 sentenced to life in prison without parole in the United States and no Addressing Disproportionate Minority Contact in one in the rest of the world, we must thoughtfully the Juvenile Justice System examines the issue contemplate how to address how to hold children of Mass Incarceration among minority juveniles accountable for their crimes in age appropriate in the State of Illinois & Nationally and initiatives ways that acknowledge their capacity for change to address the issue through Disproportionate and focus on rehabilitation and re-integration into Minority Contact Task Forces and Models for society. After providing an overview, presenters Changes Initiatives. Disproportionate Minority will seek the perspectives of audience members, Contact was brought to national awareness as who work with juvenile offenders on a daily basis, early as 1974 where all 50 states were mandated about ways to advance this movement. to address the issue. Disproportionate Minority Contact also reflects the numbers of youth that are 26. Working with Difficult Personalities touched by the system period. Many who use to be confined are now on Electronic Monitoring and ToriShana Johnson, Cook County Juvenile diverted to Evening Reporting Centers nevertheless Temporary Detention Center (IL) they are involved in the Juvenile Justice System. The language that is being promoted more recently Room: WILSON (3RD FL) is Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System. The session will look at risk factors as well Every person has the right to work in a harassment as protective factors that can impact this issue in free environment, but in most workplaces, a meaningful way. The open discussion will be personalities will clash. Making all employees sure to raise the consciousness of all who attend. aware of the different personality types and tips to coping with difficult personalities, will assist 25. Kids Are Different: Ending Life without individuals with changing their personal thinking Parole Sentences for Youth patterns, which in turn will positively change the way they behave. This workshop will examine James Dold, Campaign for the Fair Sentencing four personality identifiers and several common of Youth (DC) personality types that will allow participants learn coping techniques to work with blended LaShunda Hill, Campaign for the Fair Sentencing personalities. After this workshop participants of Youth (DC) will be able to identify their own personality type and recognizes some of those traits in other Room: TAYLOR (3RD FL) people, as well as learning the core components of effective communication. Through guided This session will provide a primer on life without practice, participants will be able decipher between 18 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services TUESDAY 3:30 PM-5:00 PM WORKSHOPS

listening and hearing. Participants will also be able 29. aNimal Therapy in Juvenile Justice to identify other common workplace stereotypes and use the helpful tips and techniques provided Jay Wilkinson, Bluegrass Training and Therapy in this course to help mitigate nuisance behaviors Center (KY) that impede the flow of work productivity. Erica Bowen, Bluegrass Training and Therapy 27. Digits in Detention!!! Center (KY) Room: STANLEY (3RD FL) David Beatty, Lincoln Public Schools / Lancaster County Youth Services (NE) We will begin our presentation with a short 10-minute video that gives a tour of our facility Room: WILLIS (2ND FL) and an overview of the programs that we offer. We will then have a power point that will last about This session will demonstrate how emerging 25 minutes. The power point will cover; a profile instructional technologies are being utilized by of youth served and their presenting problems T uesday 1:30 pm - 3:30 youth at the Pathfinder Education Program within and obstacles, method of service delivery and the Lancaster County Youth Detention Center, therapy model (EAGALA), a detailed description Lincoln, Nebraska. Participants will get ideas on of three programs we feel that are necessary current hardware and software technologies that for success (employment training, therapy, have been proven to engage students within the transitional housing), how to locate federal and field of juvenile justice education. The presenter state resources to assist with transition and re- will demonstrate how I-Pads and free/low cost entry to the community and successful outcomes “apps” are used by students. An augmented reality and methods of monitoring after discharge. Next IPad app will also be presented that has been used we will have 10 minutes of youth testimonials. In to assist reluctant readers while in the classroom. conclusion, we will leave 15 minutes at the end In addition, the presenter will discuss the uses for for questions and discussion. Greyhound dogs an exciting, low-cost computer initiative named will be in attendance…don’t miss them!!! Raspberry Pi (a powerful $35 credit-card sized computer). 30. Introduction to PREA Audit Instrument & Process - Part 2 (cont. 28. USING RISK ASSESSMENT TO from 10:45 a.m.) CONCEPTUALIZE YOUR CLIENT Caleb Asbridge, The Moss Group (DC) Ida Dickie, Ph.D., Spaulding University (KY) Wendy Estano, Independent Consultant & PREA Auditor (AR) Room: BROWN (2ND FL) Joshua Delaney, Attorney, U.S. Department of This session will teach participants how Justice (DC) to conceptualize how risk factors predict delinquency. The presenter will also explain the Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) difference between risk and protective factors. This session will provide an overview of the PREA If you want to understand your clients better Audit Instrument for juvenile facilities and the through the use of risk assessment, then this is PREA audit process. Participants will receive an the session to attend. introduction to the instrument itself and receive some basic information on how the instrument will be applied in auditing situations.

18 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 19 WEDNESDAY 8:30 AM-10:00 AM WORKSHOPS

31. The Effects of Domestic Violence Room: JONES (3RD FL) Exposure on Children and Adolescents The leading juvenile justice reformers have Rashmi-Ad Brown, CHES Solutions (KY) tried to build some of their reform efforts on a “detention is bad” platform. However, even in all Room: CARROLL FORD (2ND FL) of the reform strategies, there has always been the acknowledgement of the need for detention This workshop will provide an overview of the in the juvenile justice continuum of services. A immediate and long-term effects of children who much more effective platform, and one that the have been exposed to domestic violence. This detention community could embrace is that “BAD workshop will identify the correlation between DETENTION IS BAD”. The detention community children who are exposed to domestic violence has an obligation to respond aggressively to bad and future challenges. For many of these children, detention, but some detention is HELPFUL and

Wednesday 8:30 am - 10:00 violence interrupts their experience of consistent successfully and effectively fulfilling its role in safety and care, and creates an environment of the JJ continuum, and our obligation is equally uncertainty and helplessness. as strong to effectively spread the word about what is good about the work that we are doing 32. Exploring Your Leadership Style – with youth. Part 2 Presenters and workshop participants will engage Pam A. Clark, MSW, National Center for Youth in a facilitated discussion format about “helpful” in Custody (IN) and “bad” detention. The desired outcome for this workshop is for participants to develop a Room: CLEMENTS (2ND FL) series of talking points promoting the positive outcomes of helpful detention and responding Regardless of the positions we hold in our to the real and perceived negative outcomes of organizations, we are all leaders – leaders of detention experiences for youth. organizations, leaders of subordinate staff, leaders of the youth in our care, etc. In this session the 35. responding Appropriately to Youth concepts of management and leadership will be that Misbehave explored and an overview of leadership styles will be presented. Participants will complete Richard Gentry, Ingham County Youth Center the Shared Leadership Questionnaire in order to (MI) determine their personal leadership style related to the amount of task-oriented vs. relationship- Room: SEGELL (3RD FL) oriented behaviors they tend to use. Participants will have an opportunity to look at and discuss The Ingham County Youth Center (Lansing, MI) the impact of these styles on the effectiveness of has been successful in implementing modified other people within the organization. and individualized programming for youth in the detention setting who have demonstrated WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013 extreme acting out behaviors. In this workshop, the 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM participant will learn evidence-based methods in working with youth that misbehave in the detention 33. When We Are Good, We Are Good; But and residential environment. The workshop When We Are Bad… will present various aspects of incentive-based programs that utilize positive re-enforcement Carol Cramer Brooks, NC4YC (MI) and re-enforcement tools to facilitate positive 20 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services WEDNESDAY 8:30 AM-10:00 AM WORKSHOPS

and lasting behavior change. All behavior is 37. the COMPLEXITY OF AT-RISK EDUCATION the result of the search for significance in the PROGRAM DESIGN world of the adolescent. The attendee will learn the three primary goals of misbehavior, the Randall Farmer, Lincoln Public Schools / effectiveness of logical and natural consequences CEARDY (NE) and why punishment is not an effective method of discipline. Room: WILLIS (2ND FL)

36. IMPLEMENTING THE CROSSOVER YOUTH Attendees will analyze the key elements of a PRACTICE MODEL TO DECREASE EARLY high performing at-risk education program. They INVOLVEMENT INTO THE DELINQUENCY will be presented with an understanding of the SYSTEM relationships between these elements and their impacts upon facilities, staff, educators and most

Brenda Mahoney, Division Director, Stearns Co. importantly the youth we serve. Attendees will then Wednesday 8:30 am - 10:00 Human Services (MN) utilize these elements and their understanding to design, enhance, and implement, for improvement, Becky Bales, Division Director, Stearns County their own educational programming. The session Human Services (MN) will include informational presentation, analytical discussion, and interactive application of the Room: FRENCH (3RD FL) elements and ideas. Interaction and discussion will allow each attendee to individualize the “take Stearns County, Minnesota, implemented an away” from the presentation to fit their own facility, initiative to reduce the number of youth entering program, or classroom. This session would the delinquency system. County child protection, benefit anyone who works in or around at-risk corrections, disability services, and attorney education programs by providing a comprehensive collaborated with law enforcement, the judicial understanding of the myriad of factors that system, education, and community agencies to influence the design of a school within a facility launch the Crossover Youth Initiative. Based on that serves at-risk youth. A program designed on the practice model developed by the Georgetown clear priorities can maximize services to youth and University Public Policy Institute, evidenced based provide a clear understanding for the community, practices and other promising projects, the funding groups, parents, and youth. Initiative is designed to strengthen how juvenile justice addresses the needs of youth involved in 38. Incorporate Adolescent Brain the child welfare or disability services systems Research into Your Staff Training who have now “crossed over” into the juvenile (4 Hour Session) justice system. The Crossover Youth Initiative (CYI) has enhanced Stearns County’s strong tradition Cindy Thacker, NPJS Council for Juvenile Justice of collaboration and encourages open dialogue Trainers (NC) between child welfare, disability services, juvenile justice, the courts, community providers and Margaret Davis, NPJS Council for Juvenile education to support better outcomes for youth, Justice Trainers (NC) their families, and their communities. Session will focus on research regarding crossover youth, the Room: BROWN (2ND FL) jurisdictional planning process, implementation of CYI, and effective strategies to appropriately This interactive session will explore recent research divert youth from the delinquency system. on adolescent brain development including common perceptions and misperceptions about 20 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 21 WEDNESDAY 8:30 AM-10:00 AM WORKSHOPS

how teenagers think and the importance of Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) adolescent experiences for shaping later function. We will then discuss the importance of sharing this This session will focus on applying the PREA information with staff who work with adolescents audit instrument to specific challenging PREA and look at ways you can incorporate this standards. Participants will learn how the PREA information into your current training programs. audit instrument can be used to audit specific situations and how to prepare for audits in an 39. effective Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: effective manner. An Interdisciplinary Approach 41. truancy Diversion Program Claus Tjaden, Ph.D, Martinez Tjaden, LLP (GA) Judge Shan Embry, Grayson & Meade County Orlando L. Martinez, Martinez Tjaden, LLP (GA) TDP Site (KY) Wednesday 8:30 am - 10:00 Room: COE (3RD FL) Room: CARROLL FORD (2ND FL)

As the field of mentoring has expanded and Developed by the Administrative Office of the matured, both program leaders and funders Courts, Truancy Diversion works to identify have expressed a growing interest in developing students who have excessive unexcused absences effective mentoring programs to serve youth and are at risk of being referred to Family Court or who are at risk for school dropout, substance District Court for truancy charges. This program use, delinquency, aggression or other problem will help students, with the assistance of their behaviors. This workshop will examine the families, develop strong attendance habits, which evidence on the prevention of problem behaviors will enhance their potential for success in school. from different research perspectives and suggests how an inter-disciplinary approach might inform 42. Coaching for Success – Part 1 – (4- mentoring program theory and practice. An Hour Session) overview of what has been learned from rigorous, large-scale evaluations of different kinds of youth Brian Philson, Highfields, Inc. (MI) mentoring programs, distilling general findings and findings that seem particularly relevant to Room: CLEMENTS (2ND FL) working with higher-risk youth will be presented. Two different approaches to prevention work Coaching is an integral part of the agency with at-risk youth: a Positive Youth Development training process. For on-the-job training to be framework and a Public Health Risk and Resilience successful, extensive coaching is necessary. framework will be examined. Additionally, when employees attend training programs or complete field training they need 40. Application of the PREA Audit reinforcement, support and guidance to apply Instrument the skills and knowledge learned in training. Without this support the skills and knowledge will Caleb Asbridge, The Moss Group (DC) soon be forgotten. This workshop is designed to teach trainers, mentors, and or supervisors Wendy Estano, Independent Consultant & PREA how to improve their skills to better provide that Auditor (AR) reinforcement, support and guidance. These strategies can help employees to continuously Joshua Delaney, Attorney, U.S. Department of improve their job performance. Justice (DC) 22 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services WEDNESDAY 10:15 AM-12:15 PM WORKSHOPS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013 frequency amongst youth and provide techniques 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM for prevention. This session will use case study vignettes to highlight warning signs and allow 43. Treating Mental Health Needs of hands on practice for the participants. During Youth In Confinement this workshop, participants will review alarming facts as it relates to youth and suicide. This Ines Nieves, NYS Office of Children and Family workshop will help participants identify risk Services (NY) factors that contribute to suicidal behaviors, help participants recognize the signs for youth Dr. Joe Tomassone, NYS Office of Children and contemplating suicide, help direct care staff Family Services (NY) employees understanding bullying and LGBTQ risk factors that increase a youth’s chances of Room: COE (3RD FL) committing suicide as well as understanding self- injury and how it differs from suicide. Over the last two decades there has been much advancement in the treatment of court­ involved 45. compassion Fatigue, Burnout & Stress youth with mental health issues. Assessment and Management screening tools have improved, access to clinicians and qualified mental health professionals has KimLoan Tran, Cook County Juvenile Temporary increased, efforts have been made to limit the Detention Center (IL) effects of the correctional facility environment, Wednesday 10:15 am-12:15 pm and young people have been connected to more Room: SEGELL (3RD FL) community-based re-entry mental health services than ever. However, as the juvenile justice system This workshop highlights the importance of downsizes, and the profile of youth in facilities self-care and the dangers of compassion fatigue, reflects higher needs and risks, there has been burnout, and stress on the body and mind (both a troubling trend regarding the use of practices short and long-term consequences). Focus areas that are not conducive to treating mental health will include emphasis on health and wellness conditions. This session will focus on providing through the use of self-assessments and small participants information on the need for treatment group discussions. Participants will 1) gain an in juvenile justice facilities, prevalence of mental awareness of being attuned to their personal health disorders, relationships between mental needs, limitations, resources and emotional health and delinquency, strategies for change, regulation as well as practice self-acceptance; and the overview of a model designed for trauma 2) understand the importance of a balanced responsive treatment and mental health in a lifestyle and maintaining balance among different residential setting. priorities (work, play, rest); 3) learn to build supportive connections and positive relationship 44. suicide Amongst Youth with coworkers, friends, and family members.

ToriShana Johnson, Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (IL)

Room: STOPHER (3RD FL)

Suicide is the third leading cause of death amongst youth. This workshop is designed to provide significant information regarding the 22 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 23 WEDNESDAY 10:15 AM-12:15 PM WORKSHOPS

46. Working Effectively with Girls in the This will be a session meant to help you go beyond Juvenile Justice System the JDC system to do what is best for your students. It will give you the information you need to start Jeannette Y. Pai-Espinosa, National Crittenton to re-invent your own detention center based on Foundation what your kids need. Materials and resources will be offered to all who attend. Room: FRENCH (3RD FL) 48. Incorporate Adolescent Brain This workshop will provide an intellectual and Research into Your Staff Training practical framework for working effectively with (continued from 8:30) girls in the juvenile justice system. Through real life experiences of girls in the system Cindy Thacker, NPJS Council for Juvenile Justice participants will learn about their unique pathways Trainers (NC) to delinquency and gain important insights from recent research on what girls say they need to Margaret Davis, NPJS Council for Juvenile turn their lives around. Results from the 2012 Justice Trainers (NC) pilot administration of the Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire in Crittenton agencies Room: BROWN (2ND FL) with girls in 18 states will be discussed. Examples of innovative programs and practices will be This interactive session will explore recent research Wednesday 10:15 am-12:15 pm shared. on adolescent brain development including common perceptions and misperceptions about 47. Life-School Inside Your School: how teenagers think and the importance of Transform Your Detention Center adolescent experiences for shaping later function. to Meet Needs We will then discuss the importance of sharing this information with staff who work with adolescents John Luvera, Coupeville School District (WA) and look at ways you can incorporate this information into your current training programs. Aimee Bishop, Coupeville School District (WA 49. Addressing the PREA Training Room: WILLIS (2ND FL) Standards

If you join this session, you will hear the story Caleb Asbridge, The Moss Group (DC) of one 21-bed detention center’s journey, re- inventing itself to serve individual student needs. Room: JONES (3RD FL) During this session, you will see examples and hear the evidence-based reasoning of why and This session will provide participants with an how a JDC came to offer grocery shopping, overview of the PREA employee training standards cooking, cleaning, personal finance, self-care, and and how to develop training strategies to address professional attire plus skills in job searching. these standards. Information and resources will We will share success stories from community be provided on training strategies and materials. partnerships helping students quit tobacco use, earn community service hours (while in detention), 50. PREA Policy Development and join work apprenticeships and link with mentors. Implementation We will share examples of other “needs” based curriculum offerings, all while meeting state and Mykel Selph, The Moss Group (DC) national Common Core Standards. 24 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services WEDNESDAY 1:30 PM-3:00 PM WORKSHOPS

Joshua Delaney, Attorney, U.S. Department of programs or complete field training they need Justice (DC) reinforcement, support and guidance to apply the skills and knowledge learned in training. Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) Without this support the skills and knowledge will soon be forgotten. This workshop is designed This session will address the policy requirements to teach trainers, mentors, and or supervisors embedded within the PREA standards and provide how to improve their skills to better provide that information and strategies on how to address reinforcement, support and guidance. These these requirements in conjunction with the PREA strategies can help employees to continuously Audit Instrument. Participants will receive key improve their job performance. information on how to use policy to address the PREA requirements and how to ensure that policy WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013 is implemented appropriately. 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

51. Campbell County Status Offense 53. Addressing Disproportionate Program Minority Contact: An Important Tool to Improve the Juvenile Justice Karen Thomas, Administrative Office of the System Courts (KY) Elissa Johnson, Southern Poverty Law Center Melissa Goins, Administrative Office of the (MS) Wednesday 1:30 pm - 3:00 Courts (KY) Room: COE (3RD FL) Room: CARROLL FORD (2ND FL) This session will examine the issue of Status Offense Program seeks to identify juveniles Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) and how who are at risk of being referred to Family Court the overexposure of children of color to the juvenile for status offense charges such as Beyond Control justice system negatively impacts the effectiveness of Parent, Beyond Control of School, Habitual of juvenile justice systems and harms communities Runaway, and Habitual Truancy. These are and families. With an increase in incarceration and juveniles who are at risk of court involvement. referral to the juvenile justice system from schools, This program is designed to help juveniles this session will include a discussion of how the address family and behavioral issues in a positive overcriminalization of youth for non-criminal environment that praises individual milestones conduct contributes to this problem. The overview by providing resources and support to families. provided in this session will include an explanation of key terms, concepts, and statistics regarding 52. Coaching for Success – Part 2 – the prevalence of DMC in several jurisdictions. (continued from 8:30) Attendees will discuss examples of strategies that have successfully reduced DMC in jurisdictions Brian Philson, Highfields, Inc. (MI) across the country. The discussion will increase participants’ understanding of DMC and how it Room: CLEMENTS (2ND FL) affects all aspects of the juvenile justice system as well as the importance of continued efforts to Coaching is an integral part of the agency combat the issue in all jurisdictions. training process. For on-the-job training to be successful, extensive coaching is necessary. Additionally, when employees attend training 24 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 25 WEDNESDAY 1:30 PM-3:00 PM WORKSHOPS

54. Applying Key Findings from the Newcastle Youth Offending Team is internationally Pathways to Desistance Study: recognized for its highly successful partnership A Study of Serious Adolescent approach to reducing the numbers of first time Offenders entrants to the Juvenile Justice System. We will set out the underpinning critical success factors, Orlando L. Martinez, Martinez Tjaden, LLP (GA) the multi-agency roles and lessons learned in reaching the performance evidenced today. We Claus Tjaden, Martinez Tjaden, LLP (GA) will describe the partnership and Multi disciplinary team and in particular the links with Child Services, Edward P. Mulvey, University of Pittsburg (PA) Criminal Justice Agencies, Physical and Mental Health services and Education services. Carol A. Shubert, University of Pittsburg (PA) Room: STOPHER (3RD FL) We will explain in detail the structure, evidence base and delivery models of: Community The session describes findings from the Pathways Resolution, Triage and Youth Justice Liaison and to Desistance study, a multi-site, longitudinal study Diversion program. These new approaches have of serious adolescent offenders as they make the demonstrably reduced the numbers of juveniles transition from adolescence into early adulthood requiring statutory justice services by over 70% (a 7-year period). We will focus on two areas with (2007-2013). This success has enabled the service particular relevance for juvenile justice practice. to focus resources on children with complex needs, First, we examine the patterns of self-reported reducing re-offending, minimizing the use of offending and official record arrest over a 7-year custody and lowering the risk of vulnerability and period, with a focus on changes in the level and serious harm. We will evidence that a local child type of offending as well as factors that might be focused Criminal Justice System can be achieved related to these changes. Second, we look at how through innovation rather than legislation. youth perceptions of an institutional environment can influence their behavior upon release and the 56. Evidence-Based Programming?? Wednesday 1:30 pm - 3:00 effects of confinement on development. Finally, Statistics? Ugh!! The Who, What, When, we discuss specific ways in which these findings Where and How? can be used to improve juvenile justice practice. Stanley J. Granger, Jr., Ingham County Youth 55. The Newcastle Early Intervention Center (MI) and Proportionate Response Model Richard Gentry, Ingham County Youth Center David Parks, Newcastle Youth Offending Team (MI) (UK) Room: FRENCH (3RD FL) Paul Brownlee, Newcastle Youth Offending Team (UK) Traditional thought tells us that programming in detention is extremely difficult. Ingham County Room: SEGELL (3RD FL) (Lansing, MI) is currently running a Cognitive Behavioral Program in a secure detention facility. Reducing the numbers of children entering into Mr. Granger and his staff have collected six years a criminal justice system through effective and of data that supports and provides an evidence- proportionate diversion and prevention activity is based foundation for their programming. This critical to an efficient and child focused juvenile session will explore the challenges of collecting justice service. and maintaining a user-friendly database that 26 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services WEDNESDAY 1:30 PM-3:00 PM WORKSHOPS

will help keep your program in check and of instructions. One of the key elements of a provide measures for improvement. Currently flexible delivery mode is the use of e-learning. At his staff is maintaining daily statistical analysis Hope Academy, we revamp classroom instruction regarding programming, effects of trainings, youth into online training. Put in online and make it behaviors, token economy and staff performance. mandatory, in the hopes that the experience would He will discuss and provide examples of how they make them more open to taking other courses were able to institute a collection process and on their own. The e-learning uses multiple media compile significant data with limited resources. His such as video, slides, and graphics what would current data provides outside parties an avenue to be a full day of classroom training into 90-minute see what their facility is doing and determine if it segments each day for a week. is effective or not. Their data provides a measure of impact a training may have with their youth, The online class also often helps individuals staff and programming. It also has been a great improve their computer skills, which is an asset tool for motivating and recognizing staff, who in other aspects of their jobs. It’s such a different are excelling and/or who may need assistance. way of doing things than traditional classroom teaching. The student orientation focuses on 58. Basic Platform Skills ensuring that students are familiar with the technology involved, the learning environment, Munna Rubaii, NY State Office of Children and and the concept of facilitated learning. Family Services (NY) 60. first Response to Sexual Assault Gerald Gay, Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center (PA) Laura Dolan, Ohio Department of Youth Services (OH) Room: BROWN (2ND FL) Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) Like actors, trainers are “on stage” when presenting Wednesday 1:30 pm - 3:00 training. Like actors, trainers can use their This session will address national best practice in voice and body to increase the impact of their the area of responding to sexual assault. These performance. In this session, we will play with practices will be informed by the PREA Standards some basic platform skills which trainers can use and will address specific topics such as coordinated to improve the effectiveness of their training, response, agreements with outside entities, and whether they are presenting that training “live” follow-up services. or via distance learning. 61. reclaiming Futures 59. Positive Perceptions: Enhancing the Effectiveness of E-Learning Kari Collins, DCBS (KY)

Dr. Joris Ray, Shelby County Schools (TN) Michelle Kilgore, DCBS (KY)

Michael J. Smith, Shelby County Schools (TN) Judge Cathy Prewitt, Administrative Office of the Courts (KY) Room: JONES (3RD FL) Room: CARROLL FORD (2ND FL) Schools and institutions have long recognized the need of their learners to participate in This program offers a new approach to teenagers education programs through a flexible delivery caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol and crime. 26 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 27 WEDNESDAY 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM WORKSHOPS

Reclaiming Futures promotes improved standards Room: COE (3RD FL) of care in juvenile justice and behavior health utilizing a six-step model. Key elements of the Given the overwhelming research, policy positions model include screening and assessing teens of professional associations of justice system for drug and alcohol problems and assembling stakeholders including NPJS, and public opinion a team to develop a strength-based care plan; research, states have initiated reforms to remove training drug and alcohol treatment providers in youth from the adult criminal justice system and evidence-based practices shown to have worked adult jails. with teens; and involving community members as natural helpers and role models to provide support. According to “Trends in Juvenile Justice State Legislation 2001 - 2011” a new report released 62. everyone’s a Leader by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) 2012, a number of states have undertaken Jim Green, Green River School (KY) policy reforms in the last decade, including the removal of youth from the adult criminal justice Room: CLEMENTS (2ND FL) system and from adult jails and prisons.

Everybody is a leader in some capacity of their life. Under these new policies, youth are retained You are in charge of how you respond to things in the juvenile justice system and therefore are from the time you walk in the door of any new not subject to placement in adult jails. States or difficult situation: a meeting, a job, or even include Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, a relationship. Leadership expert John Maxwell Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Utah, Virginia said, “Everything Rises and Falls with Leadership,” and Washington. Additionally, some states If you are a manager, supervisor, or leader of an have changed their state statutes to remove or organization, the effectiveness of your staff may encourage removal of youth from adult jails such very well be determined by your effectiveness as as Colorado, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Virginia.

Wednesday 3:15 pm - 4:45 a leader. In this workshop, we will take a look at John Maxwell’s book, “The 21 Irrefutable Laws 64. Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, of Leadership,” and explore the importance of Questioning, and Intersex (LGBTQI) these laws and how they can help us create an Youth-Language and Cultural awareness and understanding of the struggles Differences and challenges you will face in your role as a leader. Come fill your leadership toolbox with Mykel Selph, The Moss Group (DC) skills and techniques that will serve you and your organization and can be easily implemented into ToriShana Johnson, Cook County Juvenile your organizational culture. Temporary Detention Center (IL)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013 Room: JONES (3RD FL) 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM This workshop will provide participants with a 63. Jail Removal of Youth in Adult brief introduction of basic LGBTQI nomenclature Criminal Justice Systems: A State and cultural issues. The session will highlight the Trends Update cultural clash of sex segregated juvenile justice facilities against the competing and specific Carmen Daugherty, Director of Policy Campaign needs of LGBTQI and/or gender non-conforming for Youth Justice youth. Using their own experience and expertise, participants will discuss common scenarios in 28 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services WEDNESDAY 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM WORKSHOPS

order to think critically about policy and cultural 50 percent of our Native youth do not live with issues in their own facilities to determine if they a biological parent and one in three quit school. are meeting the needs of LGBTQI youth. There is a yearly protest by the Native community at Juvenile Court and juvenile probation. Through 65. Wild Beasts and Natural Fools: A addressing cultural issues this officer has worked History of the Treatment of the with the Native Community in creating a program Mentally Ill in Detention called Native Youth Standing Strong. Through this collaborative effort between juvenile probation, Marc A. Booker, Virginia Department of Juvenile social services, and the Native community this Justice officer has been allowed an unusual access into the Native community. This access has included Room: STOPHER (3RD FL) many different types of ceremonies and cultural practices throughout the mid west, including the This workshop will examine the fascinating, and sun dance, kettle ceremony, naming ceremony, sometimes disturbing, history of the treatment inipi (sweat lodge), quarrying Pipe Stone and of the mentally ill in the institutionalized and healing ceremonies. Often this officer is the only correctional setting. Particular emphasis will be non-Native person in attendance. This program placed on the examination of legal developments has received much recognition and has been a that impact youth and staff in detention facilities. proven program to bridging cultural difference The workshop will also include a survey of current and beginning the process of reducing crime best practices and available resources to assist and the recidivism rate among our Native Youth. facilities and practitioners in better serving the Through open discussion by all in attendance the needs of this very vulnerable, growing population. workshop will assist the attendee in learning how they can help in bridging the differences between 66. Juvenile Probation and the Native law enforcement and the minority community in American Community their own community. Wednesday 3:15 pm - 4:45 Will Meier, Juvenile Court Services (IA) 68. cultural Sensitivity & Competency

Room: SEGELL (3RD FL) KimLoan Tran, Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (IL) This officer will address the obstacles that have been faced in his own community. This officer Room: BROWN (3RD FL) will in briefly address 400 years of failed policies and failed attempts by the law enforcement When staff show respect for juveniles’ culture and community in working in the Native American their individuality, juveniles feel valued. Juveniles community. This officer works out of Woodbury who are proud of themselves and their community County, Iowa. Woodbury County is located in the take care to act responsibly. It can help juveniles northwest corner of Iowa. Sioux City is located to understand how they have harmed other people in Iowa while South Sioux City is in Nebraska in the community if they look at crime from the and North Sioux City is in South Dakota. Within victim’s point of view. It can also help the youth a 90-minute drive there are over 10,000 Native to think about what kind of community culture Americans. It is not uncommon for the Native they are creating when they act. Some youth people to relocate looking for opportunities. will be returning to communities with a blend In Woodbury County the disproportionality of of cultures. By modeling respect for diversity the Native juvenile in our detention center is and sensitivity to the differences of others, staff seven times that of a Caucasian juvenile. Over encourage juveniles to value their own culture 28 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 29 THURSDAY 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM WORKSHOPS

and individuality, and to respect the needs of Joy Varney, Kentucky Partnership for Families all members of their community, regardless of and Children (KY) race, culture, or gender. Staff can respectfully help youth analyze and make conscious decisions Room: CARROLL FORD (2ND FL) to choose those social influences that are most positive, rejecting those that are not useful. This session will provide an overview of the importance of family engagement in the context of 69. family: A Part of the Re-Entry Process the juvenile justice system. The barriers to family for Youth engagement will be discussed as well as some strategies for working together with families as John Wells, Ph.D., Family Empowerment Services partners to increase positive outcomes for youth. (MI) 72. Now that I Am Here: Which Way Do I Room: FRENCH (3RD FL) Go

New research on recidivism after discharge from Terry J. Martinek, Berrien County Juvenile residential programming demonstrates that there Center (MI) is a need for new reentry delivery systems with greater parent involvement to lower recidivism Richard Gentry, Ingham County Juvenile rates and possible lengths of stay in residential Detention Center (MI) and foster care. Often youth return “healthier” than their home environment. Changes in technology Room: CLEMENTS (2ND FL) have created the possibility of involving families in spite of distance and travel. The implications Identifying those situations or encounters that may of increasing family involvement in residential hinder our own aspirations and goals in working programming will be discussed. Strategies to with youth today. Reviewing and discussing the engage resistant families will be presented. feelings we get that upset our life and perhaps our career goals. What does one need to think about 70. PREA Toolkit in Audit Readiness and consider if they want to be more than a Line Staff Worker. What do I need to do in order to be Caleb Asbridge, The Moss Group (DC) considered for and promotion or change in how I work today. What does one need to consider to Room: BECKHAM (3RD FL) become more successful in my career. Do I have

T hursday 8:30 am - 10:30 what it takes? This session will provide participants with strategies on how to prepare for their PREA audit, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013 using the PREA Toolkit for Juvenile Agencies and 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Facilities (along with other resources) as a guide. Participants will learn how to use the Toolkit in 74. Flip The Script: Teach Pro-Social the most effective way so as to ensure they are Leadership Skills to Students with prepared for the PREA auditing process. Bullying Behaviors

71. family Engagement Eric Landers, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University (GA) Barbara Greene, Kentucky Partnership for Families and Children (KY) Room: STOPHER (3RD FL)

30 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services WEDNESDAY 1:30 PM-3:OO PM WORKSHOPS

Current research on bullying shows that many 76. Effective and Professional students with bullying-type behavior do not lack Communication with LGBTI Youth self-esteem or are isolated from their peers. In fact, many bullies are just the opposite - equipped with Mykel Selph, The Moss Group (DC) good social skills and possess natural leadership abilities. The issue with the typical bully’s Room: FRENCH (3RD FL) leadership style is that it is guided by anti-social behaviors. This session discusses the importance This session will address promising and best of tapping into a bully’s natural leadership ability practices related to working with lesbian, gay, and developing pro-social leadership skills that bisexual, transgender, intersex and gender can be used for the pro-social change in schools nonconforming (LGBTI) residents. This will and the elevation of peers. The bottom line is specifically include strategies for effective and that bullies are motivated by the power he/she professional communication with these residents receives through these anti-social skills. It’s time as required by the PREA Standards. to flip the script and make these skills work for pro-social change. 77. Managing Change

75. field Training Instructors Program Pam A. Clark, MSW, National Center for Youth in Custody (IN) Billie Monk, KY Department of Juvenile Justice (KY) Room: JONES (3RD FL)

Room: COE (3RD FL) Change is inevitable – organizational, individual, developmental, etc, so we will close out the Whenever something “goes wrong” where people Leadership Series/Track looking at change are involved one of the first questions to be management. In this session we will look at answered during the “incident reconstruction” a model for personal change as well as one is “how was that person trained?” Training is a for organizational change. The traditional critical component of our jobs and making sure management approach to organizational change that new staff are trained adequately helps to is presented along with a six-stage model that ensure that state agency and local facility liability emphasizes a more transformational approach are protected. This workshop will explain how the to change. Through a facilitated change activity, statewide job task analysis completed for entry participants will explore the seven predictable level Youth Workers (line staff) was used to retool dynamics of change. The session will culminate T hursday 8:30 am - 10:30 both the new Youth Worker Academy training with participants planning for an effective change curriculum as well as creating a Field Training (organizational, personal, programmatic, or Instructors curriculum that would meet the needs other). of the new worker during their on-the-job training. In addition to discussing the results of research tool, this workshop will also outline statewide The National Partnership for Juvenile implementation, selection process, training and Services would like to extend its sincere follow-up design of the Field Training Instructor thanks to all of the faculty for their Program. commitment to the 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services.

30 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 31 SYMPOSIUM EXHIBITORS Special thanks to all of our exhibitors and advertisers for supporting the 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services. 2 SISTERS KEY FINDERS C-TECH Associates, INC. P: 502-931-8416 P: 973-726-9000 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Rep: Faye Simpson www.ctechprograms.com Rep: David Brady ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS P: 212-870-3107 CUMBERLAND HALL HOSPITAL E: [email protected] P: 270-886-1919 www.aa.org www.cumberlandhospital.com Rep: AA Volunteers Rep: Brad Kirkman

ABEL SCREENING, Inc. The Dibble Institute P: 575-635-9574 P: 800-695-7975 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] www.abelscreening.com www.dibbleinstitute.org www.dianascreen.com Rep: Joyce Huff Rep: Larry Skinner Family works, Inc. ADVENTFS.COM P: 740-594-2502 P: 866-494-8556 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] www.familyworksinc.com www.adventfs.com Rep: Adam Lewis Rep: Josh Hartlage GeorGe Junior Republic Bob Barker Company, Inc. in PENNSYLVANIA P: 919-552-3431 P: 7412-526-3233 www.bobbarker.com E: [email protected] Rep: Bob Barker www.georgejuniorrepublic.org Rep: Anthony Salerno Correctional Healthcare CompanY P: 720-622-8062 HANDEL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES E: [email protected] P: 307-742-5555 www.correctioncare.com E: [email protected] Rep: Lada Odobasic www.handelit.com Rep: Even Brande

32 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services SYMPOSIUM EXHIBITORS JKM Training, INC. - Safe Crisis Our Lady of Peace Management Training PRogram P: 502-451-3330 P: 717-960-0457 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] www.hopehasaplace.org www.safecrisismanagement.com Rep: Kelly Watts Rep: Todd Fountain PACE Learning Systems JTS Artworks P: 800-826-7223 P: 419-319-3977 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] www.pacelearning.com Rep: Joseph Szafarowicz Rep: Susan McKee

KY Juvenile Justice Advisory Board PTS Solutions, INc. E: [email protected] P: 888-831-5151 Rep: Nancy K. Pfaadt E: [email protected] www.ptssolutions.com MAD MARKETPLACE Rep: Mark Morgan E: [email protected] www.themadmarketplace.com Rivendell Behavioral Rep: Kristen Dahl Health Services P: 270-843-1199 National Center for E: [email protected] Youth in Custody (NC4YC) www.rivendellbehavioral.com P: 269-383-8644 Rep: Patrick Solomon E: [email protected] www.nc4yc.org RTT Mobile Interpretation Rep: Carol Cramer Brooks P: 859-893-8615 E: [email protected] NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP www.rttmobile.com FOR JUVENILE SERVICES Rep: Becky Ritchey P: 859-333-2584 E: [email protected] Youth Villages www.npjs.org P: 812-265-1840 Rep: Kristen Dahl E: [email protected] www.youthvillages.org Rep: Heather Owsley

32 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 33 CERTIFIED JUVENILE WELCOME NPJS MEMBERS SERVICES PRACTITIONER NPJS would wishes to thank their members for Since 1968 the National Juvenile Detention attending the 19th National Symposium for Juvenile Association (NJDA), a founding partner of Services. If you are an NPJS member, please stop by the National Partnership for Juvenile Services the Registration Desk for a special gift. (NPJS), has sought to improve the quality of the juvenile justice workforce. NPJS is pleased Come find out why you should join NPJS today! Join you have shown an interest in joining ranks NPJS during the 19th National Symposium for a with other concerned practitioners across the discounted yearly membership fee of $39. country in becoming an advocate for children, youth and the juvenile justice profession. The Partnership strives to... • Advocate for the highest standards in care, The National Juvenile Detention Association’s management and programming for detained (NJDA) position statement on Recruitment, youth Selection, and Retention of Juvenile Detention • Strengthen training and professional Professionals opens with the following development opportunities for practitioners statement: • Lead juvenile justice systemic reform efforts

The most valuable resource in the juvenile detention field is a highly qualified, committed, and professional workforce who will implement ELSA programs and provide meaningful services for Breaks the detained youth. Language In support of this statement, the National Barrier Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) is Mobile, Live Interpretation in now offering certification for juvenile services 180 Languages — practitioners. This certification will serve to Anywhere, Anytime provide employers and potential employers • On-demand, cost- effective solution with information regarding a practitioner’s • 24/7/365 Interpretation education, training, and experience as they • Compact, lightweight and durable relate specifically to the field of juvenile • Access recorded calls justice, in particular to an individual’s basic and reports • Engineered for use in understanding and knowledge of the work they rugged field conditions will be required to do in a juvenile confinement setting. These requirements reflect what is Becky Ritchey believed to be minimally necessary for an Authorized Re-Seller www.rttmobile.com | [email protected] | 859-893-8615 individual to be an effective practitioner in the field of juvenile services.

To find out more about becoming a Certified Learn more and schedule a demo. Juvenile Services Practitioner, please visit: www.rttmobile.com | +1 859-893-8615 | [email protected]

© 2013 RTT Mobile Interpretation. All rights reserved. http://www.npjs.org/

34 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services 34 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services October 20 - 24, 2013 • 35 36 • 19th National Symposium on Juvenile Services