On September 17, 2-5 PM, the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives will host a briefing with nationally recognized experts on reducing crime and promoting positive youth development. The briefing covers topics of concern to the newly formed congressionalCrime Prevention and Youth Development Caucus. Representative Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29), Caucus Co-Chair, will make opening remarks.
The September 17th briefing will cover the application of prevention science to juvenile justice. Officials and staff at all levels of government (federal/state/local), as well as researchers, evaluators, educators, practitioners, advocates, and funders are welcome.
The briefing will feature:
Welcome by moderator Diana Fishbein, Ph.D.; Professor and Director of C-TRANS, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Director of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives.
Opening remarks from Representative Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29).
Panel One:
- Robert Schwartz, Esq. (Executive Director, Juvenile Law Center).Promoting a Juvenile Justice System that is Fair, Effective, Developmentally Appropriate, and Used Only When Necessary.
- Dr. Richard Catalano (Director, Social Development Research Group, University of Washington). Building Prevention Infrastructure to Reduce Delinquency, Violence and Substance Use: Communities that Care.
- Dr. John Roman (Senior Fellow, Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute).Promoting productive relationships between researchers, practitioners, youth advocates and governmental offices (transfer of knowledge from science to practice to policy).
Panel Two:
- Dr. Jesse Russell (Director of Research, National Council on Crime and Delinquency). Targeting interventions and allocating resources: the value of understanding a youth's risk of future offending.
- Dr. Robin Jenkins (Independent Consultant and former Chief Deputy Secretary, within the NC Department of Juvenile Justice/Delinquency Prevention and Deputy Director of the NC Dept. of Public Safety, Division of Juvenile Justice). The JJDPA As Context for Broadening Evidenced Based Prevention Implementation: Translating Science to Practice through Federal Juvenile Justice Policy.
- Dr. Kristin Anderson Moore (Senior Scholar, Child Trends). Making the Grade: Assessing the Evidence for Integrated Student Supports.
Overview, Questions and Comments
- Crime Prevention and Youth Development Caucus
- Reauthorization of the JJ Prevention Act
- National Prevention Science Coalition (NPSC) overview
For more information, contact:
- Neil Wollman, Co-Director of National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives and Senior Fellow, Bentley University, NWollman@Bentley.edu, 260-568-0116
- Diana Fishbein, Director of NPSC and C-TRANS at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, dfishbei@psych.umaryland.edu
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