Special Issue – July 2020 Newsletter on Race and Justice
FROM THE JPRC DIRECTOR’S DESK In May, the world was shocked by video footage of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, being killed by the Minneapolis police. As someone who comes from a long history of decorated New York City Police Department officers, and as someone who wanted to be a police officer, I was […]
Montgomery County, PA Substance Use Prevention Evaluation (2018-present)
WestEd is currently funded by the Office of Drug and Alcohol in Montgomery County, PA to assist in evaluation planning, program implementation, data collection, and comprehensive reporting of evidence-based alcohol and drug programming (e.g., Second Step, Signs of Suicide, Life Skills, etc.) in the county. Specifically, WestEd is designing data collection procedures, training providers on […]
Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts: Policy And Practice Scan
WestEd, as part of a research team on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Initiative to Develop and Test Guidelines for Juvenile Drug Courts, conducted a policy and practice scan to provide data on a small sample of local juvenile drug treatment courts (JDTCs) in the United States. This report describes a sample […]
The Anatomy of a Multiagency Research and Practice Partnership to Evaluate Juvenile Correctional Innovations
Download our article that was featured in Translational Criminology: The Anatomy of a Multiagency Research and Practice Partnership to Evaluate Juvenile Correctional Innovations