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Monitoring and Sustaining System Change
Moderator: Alessandra Meyer,
Senior Program Associate, Vera’s Center on Youth Justice
April 21, 2023
January 6, 2015
Slide 2 • April 21, 2023
The Status Offense Reform Center
• Vera’s Status Offense Reform Center (SORC)
• Funded and supported by the MacArthur Foundation, as part of the Resource Center Partnership
• www.statusoffensereform.org
• Mission
• To help policymakers and practitioners create effective, community-based responses for keeping youth who commit status offenses out of the juvenile justice system and safely in their homes and communities.
• What does SORC provide?
• A range of tools, resources, and information to help guide system transformation
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How to Bring About System Change
• Featured Resource: A Toolkit for Status Offense System Change
• Module 1: Structuring System Change• Module 2: Using Local Information to Guide System
Change• Module 3: Planning and Implementing System
Change• Module 4: Monitoring and Sustaining System
Change
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Monitoring and Sustaining System Change
• Step 1: Monitor Performance
• Step 2: Conduct a Process Evaluation
• Step 3: Conduct an Outcome Evaluation
• Step 4: Sustain Positive Change
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Our Presenters
Julie Revaz
Manager of Administrative Services, Judicial Branch,
State of CT, Court Support Services Division
Tara Grieshop-Goodwin
Chief Policy Officer, Kentucky Youth Advocates
Dane Bolin Jeff Vander
Assistant Administrative Administrator Analyst
Calcasieu Parish Policy Jury
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Connecticut: Monitoring performance
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An Overview of Reform Approach
• Child and Youth Family Support Centers (CYFSCs) are one-stop service centers for youth and families needing intensive services
Immediate Access / Intake / ServiceCognitive Behavioral GroupsEducational AdvocacyFamily Mediation and EBP Referrals
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Continuous Quality Improvement – Results-Based Accountability
Results Based Accountability
...is a framework adopted by the CT Legislature to answer: How much do we do? How well do we do it? Is anyone better off?
…requires the development of indicators of success, the creation of goals based on
benchmarks
…favors inclusion and transparency
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RBA continued
• Stakeholder focus groups brainstorm “how you’d know if the miracle occurred….”
• Stakeholders vote on measures to select 3-5 based on their communication, data and proxy power
• One year of baseline data is assembled and annual goals are typically set 1% above or below the baseline
• Contractors have real time access to data
• Data is reviewed locally quarterly, by administration bi-annually, and with all parties together annually
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Other Quality Assurance Efforts
• Evidence-based models have prescribed QA expectations
• Quality Assurance coaches review videotapes of assessments, cognitive behavioral groups, and some case management sessions, and provide monthly feedback to program staff
• Clients provide quarterly input via Working Alliance Inventory surveys (WAIs)
• CT Judicial Branch contract staff act as problem-solvers and TA coaches with program providers
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Status Offender Program Completion
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Q1 Group Completion Rates
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Tips for Performance Monitoring
1. Teach a man to fish
2. The story behind the numbers
3. Transparency of outcomes
4. Unanticipated consequences of “what gets measured gets done”
5. So then what?
6. Sometimes less is more
7. Performance-based contracting
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Status Offenders Referred to SCJM
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Court Commitments 1999 - 2013
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Juvenile Court Intake 2008-2013
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Calcasieu Parish, LA:Conducting process and outcome evaluations
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An Overview of Reform Approach
The center is a collaborative project of the Calcasieu Parish Children and Youth Planning Board Member agencies.
The mission of the MARC is to provide a single entry point and coordinated approach to juvenile services for the youth and families of Calcasieu Parish.
MARC Video: http://youtu.be/59T1CMiBecQ
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MARC Goals MARC Criteria• Provide youth and families with a single access point.
• Provide on-site screening and assessments of youth.
• Reduce Law Enforcement processing times.
• Reduce time between arrest and intake.
• Promote public safety and wellbeing.
• Walk-in cases (Families requesting information or assistance)
• Alleged Status cases
• Alleged Delinquent cases
MARC Goals/Criteria
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Process Evaluation
• Evaluation Structure
Partnership with Vera (outside evaluator)
Vera had prior knowledge of process and site development
• Qualitative in nature
Interviews with staff
Pre/Post-MARC opening data sets
• Timing of the evaluation
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MARC Outcome Research Questions
• Are youth referred to MARC more likely to be successfully diverted compared to prior system youth?
• Does MARC produce a net-widening effect?
• How well are youth assessed and referred to the appropriate services based on their needs?
• Did the implementation of MARC increase the speed of service delivery and case processing of youth?
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Learning and Improving from the Process Evaluation
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Learning and Improving from the Process Evaluation
• Evaluation identified: JIFF goals nominated were not matched directly to services.
Follow-up assessments required a continuation of services and follow-up documentation.
• The Agency: Increased documentation of cross-referrals
Instituted random quality assurance audits
Developed a follow-up procedure of high-risk cases.
Developed a walk-in Mental and Substance Abuse assessment clinic.
Developed a work flow application to ensure follow-up of services.
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Reduced processing times
Outcome Evaluation
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• Reduced time to re-referrals Pre-MARC days to new referral- 125
Post-MARC days to new referral- 159
Outcome Evaluation
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Diversion vs. Formal Petitioned
Outcome Evaluation
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Tips for Conducting an Evaluation
• Create a concrete set of research questions in the beginning.
• Data, Data, Data... Pre and Post
• Identify Staff that can provide feedback and assist in data collection to Evaluators.
• Set-up status calls throughout, be prepared for bumps in the road.
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Kentucky:Sustaining reform through legislation
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Kentucky context
50 statesamong
Data source: Coalition for Juvenile Justice
4th highest
for youth locked up for status offenses
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Youth in secure detention in Kentucky
Data source: Department of Juvenile Justice and Louisville Metro Youth Detention Services
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An Overview of Reform Approach
• Statewide reforms many years in the making
• Building will to reform system
• Power of local model
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Key components of legislative reforms
• Creates team to review cases that aren’t successful with diversion process
• Some specific limits on detention of youth for running away
• Graduated response in diversion
• Creates fiscal incentive program
• Improves data collection
• Establishes Juvenile Justice Oversight Council
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Sustaining Reform through Legislation
• Building buy-in for statewide reforms
• Elevate the issue with public
• Engage lawmakers
• Strong communication
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• Determining the “how”
• Power of local model
Deciding on reforms
Campbell County
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Implementation
• Two phases
• FAIR team pilots underway
• Revisions to rules of law
• State agencies implementing changes
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Tips for Reforming through Legislation
• Share the numbers
• Create a strong message
• Engage media
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Questions?
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To learn more about Vera’s work in this area, contact:Alessandra Meyer, ameyer@vera.org
To access the Toolkit for Status Offense System Change and other resources, visit the Status Offense Reform
Center at:www.statusoffensereform.org
Find us on twitter: @SOreformcenter
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