{"id":177,"date":"2025-07-07T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/?page_id=177"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:53:14","slug":"ourgoals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/ourgoals\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The overarching goal of the Juvenile Justice Initiative is to develop and implement research-based policies, practices, and programming to improve outcomes, reduce youth contact with the juvenile justice system, and increase investment in community-based diversion, delinquency intervention, and alternatives to detention programs.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Improve youth outcomes and reduce contact with the youth justice system<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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  • Conduct analyses of juvenile referrals, intake case handling, pretrail detention, and reoffending using MYCIDS data<\/li>
  • Engage all relevant stakeholders in the process of examining and analyzing the status of juvenile justice policies and procedures and building the collaboration necessary to examine data on a statewide level, while considering all aspects of the justice system, including local perspectives<\/li>
  • Craft and implement data-driven policies and practices to improve public safety, to reduce reoffending and costs, and to increase the equitable treatment of justice-involved youth<\/li>
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      Strategically reinvest resulting costs saved or averted into effective prevention and intervention programs<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      • Identify state, local, and foundation funding resources and share information with juvenile courts and their community-based service partners
        • Provide training on how to complete a successful application for Title II Formula Grant funding from Mississippi, Department of Public Safety<\/li>
        • Provide training on the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model of offender intervention<\/li>
        • Provide training on evidence-based delinquency intervention and diversion programs<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
        • Solicit applications from juvenile courts and their community-based service partner(s) for mini-grant funding to implement diversion, delinquency intervention, and alternatives to detention programs and plan to fund 8 to 10 demonstration projects<\/li>
        • Measure outcomes and program performance through a process and outcome evaluation<\/li>
        • Develop and implement a sustainable strategy for reinvesting the resulting costs saved or averted into proven, effective prevention and intervention programs and services for youth<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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          Our Goals The overarching goal of the Juvenile Justice Initiative is to develop and implement research-based policies, practices, and programming to improve outcomes, reduce youth contact with the juvenile justice system, and increase investment in community-based diversion, delinquency intervention, and alternatives to detention programs.\u00a0 Improve youth outcomes and reduce contact with the youth justice system… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jj.msussrc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}