B4: Building a Continuum of Care to Help Youth Succeed and Prevent Juvenile Justice Involvement

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has released three opportunities for Building a Continuum of Care to Support Youth Success. This planning funding includes a fiscal realignment of programming to focus on prevention. JBS International and our partners have focused on delivering technical assistance to these grantees that has a holistic, family-centered, culturally relevant, and trauma-informed lens. In doing so, we have worked with planning committees around issues related to social determinants of health and other impediments to youth well-being. We are seeking to help youth thrive in the community and in parallel process the community will thrive.

This session will introduce the Continuum of Care framework. We will discuss the successes and challenges faced by grantees thus far in the planning processes. Much of the work being done requires creating and navigating partnerships and collaborations while including youth and family voice. This session will discuss strategies used to engage the necessary representation and participation occurs to plan a continuum that serves all youth and helps the community thrive.

Learning Objectives

• About the OJJDP framework for a Continuum of Care to support youth success
• About planning processes and proposed implementation to increase prevention efforts and decrease out of home placement and deeper system involvement
• Strategies for engaging community members, agencies, and service providers to create thorough assessment and planning to help realign the investments into youth well-being with prevention

Presenter

Jennie Cole-Mossman
Technical Expert Lead II
JBS International

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