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CANCELED: Evidence-based Alternative Responses and Diversion Practices: Road Map for Success
SESSION INFO
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Session Type: Workshop
Our youth justice system can serve the interests of our communities and the majority of our youth through alternatives to formal prosecution. While not straying from the important fundamentals of community safety, accountability and victim rights, we can effectively develop a comprehensive system of alternative. This session will highlight a road map for success for juvenile justice leaders and stakeholders to create a comprehensive system of impactful alternative responses and diversionary approaches that fully protect public safety, ensure accountability, and take advantage of restorative justice principles. Session participants will learn the key steps in collaborative planning and the tenets of implementation science to ensure achievement of targeted goals and objectives of this system change/reform. The RFK National Resource Center’s Alternative Response Initiative Workbook (November 2019) highlights a five step process to achieve success in local jurisdictions. These steps will be detailed while featuring specific jurisdictional successes using this approach.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
John Tuell
Executive Director, RFK National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice
John A. Tuell serves as the founding Executive Director for the Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice that launched operations in 2013. Mr. Tuell began his career in the Fairfax County, Virginia Court Service Unit and served there from 1979-1996. Mr. Tuell also served with the U.S. Department of Justice (1996-2001) in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). He also served as the Director Juvenile Justice Division at the Child Welfare League of America (2001-2009). Mr. Tuell has been an author and contributing author to numerous publications that support the work of the National Resource Center’s Dual Status Youth, Probation System Reform, and Juvenile Justice System Enhancement initiatives. He also was the lead author for the Developmental Reform in Juvenile Justice: Translating the Science of Adolescent Development to Sustainable Best Practice Brief (2017). Mr. Tuell earned his Bachelor of Social Work degree from James Madison University and his Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from George Washington University.
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