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How Do You Know Reentry is Working?
SESSION INFO
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Session Type: Workshop
As many as seven out of every 10 young people leaving juvenile justice systems fail. Yet we know now more than ever from research about what works to prevent subsequent offending and to promote positive youth outcomes. The missing link is data. This workshop will share the findings of two previous Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) data projects that provide that identify the missing link: The Initiative to Develop Juvenile Reentry Measurement Standards and the Juvenile Justice Model Data Project as well as a third OJJDP project combining the two to help agencies improve reentry data collection, analysis and reporting. This interactive workshop will feature a short presentation and two activities for participants to work directly with key data elements.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Kim Godfrey Lovett
Executive Director, Performance-Based Standards Learning Institute
Kim Godfrey Lovett is the first and founding Executive Director of Performance-based Standards (PbS), a nonprofit organization with a continuous improvement model implemented in over 150 facilities in 33 states to reform the conditions of confinement and quality of life, and winner of the 2004 Innovations in American Government Award by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded PbS funding to develop national measurement standards for reentry services and programs and Ms. Godfrey Lovett serves as project director. She also served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Models for Change National Resource Bank and worked in several states to ensure juvenile justice youths had better access to mental health services. Ms. Godfrey Lovett worked as a newspaper reporter for seven years and earned two master’s degrees: in journalism (Northwestern University) and criminal justice (Northeastern University).
Melissa Sickmund
Director, National Center for Juvenile Justice
Melissa Sickmund joined NCJJ in 1986 and has been at its helm since 2012. Dr. Sickmund’s work at NCJJ has had the goal of improving juvenile justice statistical information and facilitating the use of data to support decision-making at the national and local levels. Dr. Sickmund oversees NCJJ’s work on several national data efforts including: National Juvenile Court Data Archive, NCJJ’s longest running project; Juvenile Justice Model Data Project, NCJJ’s newest project; National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program and its online Statistical Briefing Book; Juvenile Justice GPS (Geography, Policy, Practice and Statistics) website; Multi-state Study of Subsequent Offending; Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement; Juvenile Residential Facility Census; and the Survey of Juveniles Charged as Adults in Criminal Court. Dr. Sickmund is best known for the Juvenile Offenders and Victims publication series, a product of the National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program.
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