Meeting the Needs of Female Juvenile Offenders [Lesson Plan and Participant's Manual]
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 23, 2009
ANNOTATION: This 38-hour course is designed to help juvenile justice agencies evaluate and respond to the needs of juvenile female offenders in their specific service delivery areas. It outlines a framework for translating expressed needs and profiles into appropriate programs and services. Eight sections comprise this manual:- Introduction;
- Defining the context of juvenile female offender issues within the juvenile justice system;
- Defining the context of juvenile female issues within your juvenile justice system; applying the female lens to your organization--addressing staffing issues;
- How to find and evaluate resources for your service delivery area;
- Identifying risk factors in your programming and service world;
- How to address major risk factors in your service delivery area;
- How to evaluate your program and services;
- And supplemental material.
This program is more about how to develop and program for girls in various juvenile justice settings, whereas "Services and Programs for Juvenile Female Offenders (NIC accession no. 017513) is primarily a primer on working with girls.
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