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JDAI Practice Guides
This set of guides offers practical instructional materials on how to implement successful reform strategies and best practices. For example, the Juvenile Detention Risk Assessment Practice Guide reviews contemporary juvenile detention risk-screening technology through the lens of experience provided by JDAI sites, and includes specific recommendations on how to design, test, and implement detention risk-screening instruments. The Detention Facility Self-Assessment Practice Guide includes a set of guidelines for conducting facility assessments and “how to” materials that offer recommendations regarding what documents to review, which people to interview, and what things to observe during assessments.

JDAI Detention Facility Self-Assessment Practice Guide.pdf

NACo Juvenile Detention Reform Guide for County Officials.pdf

Practice Guide to Juvenile Detention Risk Assessment.pdf

State-Level Detention Reform Practice Guide.pdf

State-Level Detention Reform Practice Guide: Supplemental References.pdf

Tour through the Practice Guide on Detention Reform for Girls (Atherton).pdf

Tour through the Practice Guide on Detention Reform for Girls (Irvine).pdf

Tour through the Practice Guide on Detention Reform for Girls (Sherman).pdf

Using Media Advocacy to Promote Detention Reform: A JDAI Practice Guide.pdf

Additional Resources

Media Advocacy Webinars: View the following webinars hosted by the Justice Policy Institute which expands on key outreach practices and tips discussed in the JDAI Media Advocacy Practice Guide. If you do not have Flash installed, you will be prompted to install Flash before viewing.

Creating a Compelling Message

Effective Media Outreach