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Ready of Not? How Can We Make a Young Person's Reentry Successful?
SESSION INFO
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Type: Workshop
It’s easy to know when a young person fails after leaving juvenile justice residential placement or community supervision. There are many different names for it – recidivism, reoffending, recommitment – but our focus on failure hasn’t done much to reduce the number of young people who “fail” nor the overrepresentation of young people of color who are incarcerated. This session will engage participants in discussion about strategies to shift juvenile justice practices from focusing on failure- catching young people making mistakes- to adopting a positive youth development approach- coaching and catching young people doing things right. The presenters will set up the discussion with findings from national projects that identify reentry practices based on positive youth development research and input from young people describing how prepared and ready they feel as reported to the Performance-based Standards (PbS) Youth Reentry Survey. Discussion will focus on practical next steps participants can take home.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Kim Godfrey Lovett
Executive Director, PbS Learning Institute
Kim’s passion stems from early her graduate schoolwork interviewing young people about to leave secure treatment programs to better understand how their perceptions of themselves impacted their readiness for reentry. Her belief in the ability of all young people to thrive if given opportunities was deepened as a volunteer yoga teacher for several years at a nearby training school and the many young people, she’s met visiting PbS facilities. Recognizing the significant impact education and employment has on reentry success and the mounting barriers facing young people leaving facility placements, Kim launched the PbS Education and Employment Foundation in 2019 to raise money and awareness to support scholarships and reentry and work opportunities with the goal of education and employment equity.
John "Jack" Martin
Client Executive, Clark County Juvenile Justice Services
Director John "Jack" Martin, MA, of the Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services has over 20 years of juvenile justice experience. Mr. Martin brings an eclectic range of experiences to the Department having served in California, Arizona and Hawaii before arriving in Nevada in 2009. His unique leadership style and direct experience rebuilding troubled systems gives him a unique perspective when incorporating innovative and time-tested programs into the Clark County juvenile system. Mr. Martin is a believer in second chances for children and has dedicated his professional life to improving the systems that serve children and families. Mr. Martin graduated from the University of Phoenix with his BS in Criminal Justice Administration. Mr. Martin is married to his long time sweet heart and has four beautiful boys.
Melissa Sickmund
Director, National Center for Juvenile Justice
Melissa Sickmund, Ph.D., joined the National Center for Juvenile Justice 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 (Georgraphy, 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 Charge as Adults in Criminal Courts. 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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