Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Launching Two Certificate Programs
The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University Public Policy Institute is launching two revolutionary Certificate Programs designed to advance multi-systems work to improve outcomes for youth involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. One program is for Individuals and one is for Multi-Jurisdictional Teams called the Certificate Program/Breakthrough Series Collaborative. Both programs are designed to provide intensive study for leaders responsible for policy development and implementation in their jurisdictions in order to enhance systems integration and build a strong cadre of public agency leaders supportive of juvenile justice reform and better results for our young people. Participants will benefit from a deeper level of instruction and results-oriented activities. Faculty who will teach the modules are comprised of experts from across the country and within the Georgetown faculty.
Through the generous support of Casey Family Programs, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, participating jurisdictions will be able to benefit from expert guidance, professional resources, and financial assistance to support their work across the juvenile justice and related systems of care. Individuals and jurisdictions will receive financial support for the travel, lodging and tuition for the Certificate Program (details are outlined in the Request for Applications available on the Center’s website: cjjr.georgetown.edu).
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Prosecutors who are knowledgeable in the law, are skilled in the courtroom, and who use the balanced approach are motivated to stay in the profession, are better positioned to further community safety, to hold offenders accountable for their conduct, and to insist on offender skills development. They are also more likely to take leadership roles outside the courtroom and to be involved in creating and supporting early identification of at-risk youth and early intervention and prevention services.
The NJJPC is fortunate to have an Advisory Group that is comprised of elected, chief assistant, line prosecutors, and juvenile justice professionals who, with their wealth of experience, knowledge, and dedication, provide invaluable guidance to the NJJPC director and staff. Advisory group members assist in policy and curriculum development, serve as faculty, and promote the mission of the NJJPC in local, regional, and national forums.
The NJJPC recognizes that to achieve our mission we must rely upon many different disciplines. Although NJJPC faculty members are primarily drawn from prosecutors’ offices across the country, we also have many non-prosecutor faculty members. NJJPC faculty members include judges, probation officers, psychologists, researchers, law enforcement professionals, and victim’s advocates.
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