Data from growing research have stormed into the juvenile justice and child welfare fields over the past two decades, providing more raw material to help troubled teens than ever before. But turning that information wave into better outcomes for children — and convincing practitioners within established systems to adopt new approaches — still requires some prodding and commitment to adopting these findings, according to judges, case workers, academics and advocates for children.
A two-day conference at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy brought together hundreds of experts for a series of discussions on how to get the most out of the new data. Panelists and attendees also spent hours examining barriers to progress and discussing ways they can be overcome.
[For more of this story, written by John Holland, go to http://jjie.org/2017/04/07/new...s-say-at-conference/]
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