Case Management – CJ445 The seminar on May 15, 2019 began with a brief introduction by Professor Rego, a poll to assess where students were joining the course from, proper ways of getting questions answered, and an overview of what we will be discussing during week 1. The purpose of the first seminar was to …
Case Management – CJ445-01 The Unit 6 seminar on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 began with a brief overview of the written assignment this week. The written assignment is a worksheet regarding diversion program for juvenile offenders. The topic of this week’s reading and seminar is alternative sentencing programs such as diversion programs, restorative justice, and …
Case Management – CJ445-01 The unit 4 seminar on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 began with a brief overview of the two discussion boards that we will be completing this week. The first will be about the harms associated with adolescents using drugs/alcohol and the second will be about differences between female and male delinquents. The …
the Four Major Shifts in Federal Juvenile Policy Case Management – CJ445-01 Adolescents throughout history have been characterized by their immature, irresponsible, impulsive, reckless, and inconsiderate behaviors. It is no secret that they are unreliable, forgetful, messy, unorganized, and do not think before they act. Is there a scientific explanation for these behaviors or are …
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Case Management – CJ445-01 The American journalist and political commentator, Nicholas Kristof, once said that “the wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul,” (Kristof, 2017) which, I feel, perfectly explains the objectives of wilderness programs for juveniles. Unlike any other innovative treatment strategy that is currently used by the juvenile justice system, wilderness programs …
Case Management – CJ445-01 Although there is no uniform definition for the wraparound process, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention defines it as “a youth-guided, family-driven team planning process that provides coordinated and individualized community-based services for youths and their families to help them achieve positive outcomes. It is a multifaceted, system-level intervention …
Case Management – CJ445-01 Since the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and increasing number of police jurisdictions have been hiring Case Managers to process their juvenile offenders. Their job is to assess their client’s needs, develop a service plan, link the client to appropriate services, monitor their client’s progress, and advocate for the client where …
Case Management – CJ445-01 Each person that immediately surrounds the life of a child provides a profound impact and helps to shape them into the young man or woman that they will eventually become as an adult. Separately, each person influences the child in their own powerful, unique way, but when those significant individuals come …