Url Resource class Title Creator Subject Type Identifier Abstract Date Available Funded by Biography Note https://wou.omeka.net/s/jr3/item/40 Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on Community-Based Intervention Programs for Justice-Involved Youth: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Darren R. Beneby | Jonathan W Glenn COVID-19 | community-based programs | juveniles | practitioners jr3/vol2022/iss1/4 The aim of this study is to explore the challenges facing community-based intervention programs designed for justice-involved young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted four focus groups with practitioners working in community-based intervention programs at the onset and decline of the pandemic in the fall of 2020 and spring of 2021, respectively. The results suggest that there was ample preparation for programs earlier during the pandemic but that unforeseen challenges still arose. Moreover, the results obtained from the second round of focus groups, which coincided with the rollout of the vaccines, suggest that practitioners had to be creative to accomplish organizational goals during the pandemic. They also suggest that, for the sake of future practice, much can be learned from the experience of working to rehabilitate justice-involved minority youth during the pandemic. Feedback from practitioners can help identify recommendations for community-based interventions in the future. 7/28/2022 The North Carolina Policy Collaboratory and North Carolina Central University's Advanced Center for COVID-19 Related Disparities (ACCORD) Darren R. Beneby, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Beneby's current research examines community corrections, criminological theory, and the punitive social control of African American youth with special attention to the intersection of racialized criminalization across social institutions. Jonathan W. Glenn, Ph.D., serves as the Associate Director of the Juvenile Justice Institute at North Carolina Central University. His research interests include racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system, criminal justice quality control, and health disparities in criminal justice. He has published papers on school resource officers, implicit bias, and the hypercriminalization of minority youth. 72 https://wou.omeka.net/s/jr3/item/39 Reforming Juvenile Justice Requires Innovating Equity in Education Ivy T. Bonk unaddressed trauma | inequity | education | juvenile justice reform | school-to-prison pipeline jr3/vol2022/iss1/5 As many as 85 percent of students in juvenile justice are said to have some type of learning disability (National Council on Disability, 2015). A root cause analysis of indicators across societal systems reveals a pattern or chain of events which lead to this contemptible outcome. A contemptible outcome that represents the detriment of millions of children and families used to feed a cycle that erode the emotional and mental wellbeing not only of individuals, but the societies in which they live; not only erodes emotional and mental wellbeing but stands as a hallmark for the devaluing of human life. A contemptible outcome that must be interrupted. Research and best practices are available to disrupt this alarming statistic and with it reduce the number of students ever becoming systems-involved with juvenile justice. Using a synthesis of research and review of best practices, this article identifies problems, offers insights and strategies for intervention, revealing a solution that could put an end to the school-to-prison pipeline. 10/8/2022 Dr. Ivy Bonk, founder at Every Child Whole, is a systems strategist, master synthesizer, and innovator with over two decades of experience in education. Fourteen years ago, as a principal she suspected a correlation between the misdiagnosis of learning disabilities and the symptoms from childhood trauma. Her suspicions led her down a path of inquiry which resulted in a doctorate in Educational Psychology. This awareness of the impact of unaddressed trauma on learning development converging with the fragmentation and incongruence in the education system is what motivates her every day to design and advocate for strategies and solutions to counter the systemic inequity this causes. Supporting her doctorate in Educational Psychology from Regent University, is an MBA as well as specialty training in Neurosequential Modeling in Education (NME) from the Child Trauma Academy (CTA). In addition to her education and work experience, her passion for systemic reformation has fueled the writing of courses and books including The Day Trauma Came to Class, LOST: Finding My Way Back to a Place I’ve Never Been and Grounded Learning: Education’s Recovery Plan. She is the architect of The Lost Child Theory and Grounded Learning Framework. 137 https://wou.omeka.net/s/jr3/item/38 Opioid Misuse Prior to Incarceration Among Incarcerated Men Nearing Release from Prison Durmus Alper Camlibel | Salih Hakan Can opioid misuse | male inmates | life stressors | earned release program and substance use disorder treatment program Text One hundred and seventy-five male inmates with a history of opioid misuse participated in Wisconsin’s residential substance abuse treatment programs. Nearing release, inmates completed surveys to report demographics, three life stressors (health, money, family), and two forms of opioid misuse (prescription opioid/opiate pain medications and heroin) during the year before incarceration. ANCOVAs illustrated that age and education were not associated with either prescription pain medication misuse or heroin use, but ethnicity was associated with heroin use, with Black inmates reporting less than White or other ethnicities. Multiple regression analyses comparing the three life stressors found that only money stressors were significantly associated with both forms of opioid misuse. 6/23/2022 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Penn State Schuylkill https://wou.omeka.net/s/jr3/item/37 Let’s Work Together: Police Views on Collaborating with Recovery Coaches Laurie T Becker | Sean P. Varano Reentry | substance use disorder | police attitudes | recovery coaches jr3/vol2022/iss1/2 Fighting on the front lines against the opioid crisis for over three decades now, law enforcement agencies are increasingly shifting away from a strictly enforcement-based approach in favor of a public health model focused on both prevention and intervention. Embracing this new approach, many police departments are collaborating with non-traditional law enforcement partners, such as recovery coaches. Although many police departments across the nation are currently engaging in, or strongly considering, a police-recovery coach collaboration, there is little research regarding police attitudes toward this type of partnership. Therefore, this study examines police views on incorporating recovery coaches into the police station for collaboration as well as what variables predict positive views toward this collaboration. To answer these questions, officers from three New England states were electronically surveyed. Findings showed that approximately half of officers supported recovery coaches working in the police station, with variables related to demographics, addiction exposure, and views on policing predicting officer viewpoints toward collaborating with recovery coaches in this manner. The findings of this study are not only valuable to police leaders as they contemplate partnering with members of the recovery community, but to the larger criminal justice system as successful police-recovery coach partnerships can positively impact the success of individuals who are suffering from substance use disorder in their reentry efforts. 6/23/2022 Laurie T. Becker is a doctoral student studying criminal justice in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her research interests include policing, opioids, and the intersection between policing and public health. Sean P. Varano is a professor of criminal justice in the School of Justice Studies at Roger Williams University. His research interests including policing and community-based crime prevention strategies. 87 https://wou.omeka.net/s/jr3/item/36 Stakeholder Perceptions and Potential Barriers to Pretrial Release Reform Shanell Sanchez | Jacqueline Strenio Algorithmic risk assessment | stakeholder buy-in | implementation process | VPRAI jr3/vol2022/iss1/1 Pretrial release reform is an important component of justice reinvestment initiatives. However, little work has examined the implementation process or stakeholder perceptions of the implementation of a pretrial release program. In this study, we explore the perceptions and experiences of stakeholders in the criminal justice system in a county in Oregon by conducting interviews with judges, district attorney’s, defenders, and pretrial staff to assess their perceptions of the reform, including the county’s adoption of the Virginia Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument (VPRAI). Our findings highlight four main themes, which we labeled Just Keep Them Out of System, The Tool Plus Experience, What Factors Are You Talking About, and Training Would Be Great. Stakeholders generally had positive perceptions of pretrial release but expressed concern about potential barriers to successful implementation, including the risk assessment tool used, the factors evaluated, and the need for training. This research highlights the importance of assessing stakeholder perceptions when implementing reform efforts. 4/19/2022 This project has been funded by Oregon Criminal Justice Commission: Justice Reinvestment Grant Program. Shanell Sanchez, Ph.D. An Associate Professor at Southern Oregon University. Her primary interests are inequality, race and ethnicity, and teaching pedagogy. Jacqueline Strenio, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at Norwich University. She is a health and feminist economist currently researching the economic determinants and consequences of intimate partner violence. 159