Contributions from: C. Michael Nelson.
Abstract
Youth with disabilities are grossly over represented within the juvenile justice system and are at-risk for involvement in the system. School failure, inadequate prevention, and ineffective transition services impede the ability of some youth with disabilities to make successful transitions to adulthood. The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice is a collaborative research, training, technical assistance and dissemination program designed to understand and develop more effective responses to the needs of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system or those at-risk for involvement in the juvenile justice system. Center activities include designing school and community-based prevention activities, education programs in juvenile correctional settings, and transition activities as youth leave juvenile corrections and re-enter their communities. The policy research, and effective practice issues concerning services to youth with disabilities in the juvenile system.
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