Juvenile Services

National Demonstration Project & Initiatives

The Juvenile Services Department (JSD) is currently operating a National Demonstration Project with the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous national researchers. The purpose of the demonstration project is to utilize proven research methods to reform an active, functioning juvenile justice system. The project is working with a variety of juvenile offenders in order to strategically apply interventions that will ultimately reduce the juvenile crime rate in a major urban area, historically plagued with a high juvenile crime rate.

The JSD also began a partnership in 2003 with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) that allows ONDCP to utilize findings of the demonstration project in order to facilitate their goals' achievement of reducing substance abuse usage among adolescents in the United States.