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Diyaniyan: Girls+ and the Promise for Meaningful Probation Work
SESSION INFO
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Session Type: Workshop
With the recent growth of scholarly understanding surrounding girls’ specific needs, vulnerabilities to traumatic experiences, and powerful strengths, a more informed and purposeful type of community supervision for girls is a necessity. In this workshop, learn why girls-focused work is important and explore a trauma-responsive model for probation supervision of girls+, Ape Siyalu Diyaniyan (All Our Daughters), a supervision model designed in consultation with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Essential Elements of a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice System and the 8 Principles of Evidence Based Practices in Corrections. Through the lens of this supervision model, discover ways your agency can implement trauma-responsive methods and create shifts in how we supervise girls on probation. Empowering approaches for agents in their day-to-day work as well as policy ideas for leadership will be offered.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Lindsay Jayawardena
Diyaniyan Probation Agent, Carver County Court Services
Lindsay Jayawardena, M.S., is a gender-specific probation agent for Carver County Court Services in Minnesota’s Twin Cities metro area. She is the author of the Ape Siyalu Diyaniyan (All Our Daughters) probation supervision model for girls. She has 13 years of experience working as a probation agent for youth and is a cognitive skills facilitator, Adverse Childhood Experiences trainer, and youth empowerment program writer. She is passionate about creating programs, models, and interventions which incorporate evidence-based practices from cross-sectional fields of research in not only Corrections, but Education, Counseling, and Public Health. She has served as consultant to school districts for professional development on Adverse Childhood Experiences and issues related to poverty and learning. She is a contributor to APPA’s professional publication, Perspectives, on issues related to racial equity. She and her agency are currently working with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as a grant recipient for her trauma-responsive probation supervision model for girls, awarded in 2023. She takes particular interest in exploring how lived experiences of girls can make us all better at what we do.
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