Accelerating Juvenile Reentry: A Practical Capacity Building Model for Sustaining Aftercare

Proven Practices for Building a Transformational Public Program

Herein is the story of how remarkable people with extraordinary ideas and spirit are revolutionizing how we usher our wayward youth back into the community fold with compassion and high expectations. This guide presents the wisdom and practical knowledge of seven Reform Models. It explains Capacity Building and the Life Cycle of these programs, demonstrating how these concepts can help you develop your own service idea. All-important action items and Effective Practices show you how to:

• Develop leadership and staff.
• Establish bottom-up organization and communication.
• Design services for life skills with strengths-based modalities.
• Evaluate and analyze as you build to maintain program fidelity.
• Determine and obtain sustainable resources.
• Assess capacity and cost effectiveness.
• Implement your processes using the checklist of field-proven Effective Practices.
• Stabilize your operations with brokered services and mapped service systems.
• Expand your program incrementally so it can begin to realize transformation.

Basic is the belief that all children can succeed at being independent and productive.
A child ushered to good citizenship brings a generation of returns.