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Focus Group: Responding to the Staffing Crisis in Juvenile Justice Systems
SESSION INFO
Monday, February 13, 2023
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Session Type: Workshop
This session will provide an opportunity for a limited number of juvenile probation leaders (i.e., Chief/Deputy Chief Juvenile Probation Officers) to discuss the staffing crisis occurring in juvenile justice systems across the country. Facilitated by Georgetown University's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute, this roundtable discussion of up to 10 leaders will be designed to explore current challenges, as well as concrete, top-down/bottom-up strategies jurisdictions are using to address staffing issues. Areas of discussion will include administrative strategies to directly address staff hiring and retention (e.g., rethinking staff roles and responsibilities, compensation, relationships with service providers and universities, licensure apprenticeships, and efforts to lift staff morale), as well as legislative and funding approaches. Information gathered will be shared with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in order to inform the development of resources to assist the juvenile justice field.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Shay Bilchik
Director/Research Professor, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
Shay Bilchik is the founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. The Center’s purpose is to focus the nation’s public agency leaders, across systems of care and levels of government, on the key components of a strong juvenile justice reform agenda. This work is carried out through the dissemination of papers on key topics, the sponsorship of symposia, and Certificate Programs at Georgetown providing public agency leaders with short, but intensive study, and ongoing support in their reform efforts. Prior to joining Georgetown on March 1, 2007, Mr. Bilchik was the President/CEO of the Child Welfare League of America, a position he held from February of 2000. Shay led CWLA in its advocacy on behalf of children through his public speaking, testimony and published articles, as well as collaborative work with other organizations. Prior to his tenure at CWLA, Shay headed up the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the U.S. Department of Justice, and before coming to the nation's capital, he was an Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Florida from 1977-1993. He earned his B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Florida.
Ashleigh Lacourse
, Michigan State University
Ashleigh is a PhD candidate at Michigan State University. She previously received her MS in criminal justice from UNC Charlotte (2016), her MEd in mental health counseling from Winthrop University (2015), and her BA in justice and law from American University (2013). Her primary research interests include the impact and experience of higher education in prison, prison programming, and individuals’ experiences with incarceration and reentry. Her work can be found in Criminology & Public Policy, Crime & Delinquency, and Justice Evaluation Journal.
Myrinda Schweitzer Smith, PhD
Executive Director, University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute
Dr. Myrinda Schweitzer Smith received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and is a Senior Research Associate and Interim Director at the Corrections Institute in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Schweitzer's research interests include the assessment of correctional programs, the science of implementation and knowledge transfer, and more generally correctional treatment and rehabilitation. She has co-authored several publications, presented nationally and internationally on correctional interventions, and served as a project director for over 200 correctional projects. Specific topics of research and service include a state-wide correctional treatment program evaluation, the development and implementation of cognitive-behavioral programs for general delinquency, criminality, substance abuse, employment, and sexual offending, as well as recent initiatives to implement effective practices for community supervision and support.
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