In collaboration with Missouri Division of Youth Services, we developed this resource for anyone engaging with and advocating for youth, with specific guidance for juvenile justice staff who wish to reinforce existing and develop new practices and systems that support wellbeing.
Download the guide for definitions of each of the five domains of wellbeing, relevant research and considerations to support youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
Full Frame Initiative was joined by Angela Cochran, Ohio START Caseworker in Trumbull County, Ohio and Mike Kenney with the Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO), who shared about their two-and-a-half-year journey toward centering community and co-creating a framework that is led by those most impacted.
FFI Senior Fellow Phyllis Becker, and Henry A. J. Ramos of The New School Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy explore how centering youth, families and communities creates more sustainable responses to crime.
Learn what we heard through community conversations across Missouri and how it led to a paradigm-shifting approach to transforming the state's child welfare system.