Education

Arkansas Legislator

Bills made into law 2025 (1)

Arkansas Department of Public Safety: Revised Standards for Juvenile Detention & Criminal Detention:

• Juvenile Detention Facility Standards
• Detention Facility Standards (Adult)
• Office of Criminal Detention Facilities Review Coordinator

National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS):

• NPJS Desktop Guide for Juvenile Detention Centers (Best Practices)
• NPJS Position Statements for Issues of Detention (Best Practices)

MacArthur Foundation

• Models for Change (Best Practices)
• Calculate the Cost of Detaining a Youth
• PREA Standards for Facilities that Detain Youth
• Screening and Assessment
• HIPPA in JDCs

Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Information, funding/grants, publications, and statistics:

• OJJDP
• Funding
• Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Act - Reauthorization 2018
• Statistical Briefing Book
• Intersection of Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
• Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Detained Youth

Annie E Casey Foundation:

• Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI)

National PREA Resource Center

• PREA Standards

Coalition of Juvenile Justice

• Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (for JDCs)

AR Commission of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (CLEST):

• CLEST Portal
• Managing Minors - Calvin Bishop, CLEST Agent

American Corrections Association (ACA):

• Detention Standards (Adult and Juvenile)
• Juvenile Resources – Training, Publications, Education

National Institute of Corrections

• You're an Adult Now
• Emerging Adults

National Institute of Justice

• Emerging Relevance of Neuroscience in Corrections

FBI

• Criminal Justice Information Services

University of AR

• Criminal Justice Institute
• CJI Ethics for Law Enforcement

Criminal Justice Alliance

• Restorative CJS

AR Juvenile Officers Association

• Events

Harvard Law

• When Science Says Children and the Law says Adults

Pulaski County AR Juvenile Detention Center

• Trauma Informed Interventions - Kiya Horace, LMSW, Pulaski County JDC

Military

• Recruitment Options

National Trauma Stress Network

• Essential Elements of a Trauma Informed Juvenile Justice System
• Trauma and the Environment of Care in Juvenile Institutions

Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice (CTRJJ)

• CTRJJ-Science-and-Services-Spotlight Effect of Trauma Informed Supervision

Craighead County, AR

A Family Guide to Juvenile Justice in Arkansas

AR DYS

A Guide for Families (for Youth committed to DYS)

Steve Nawojczyk Resources:

• http://www.YouTube.com/Nawojczyk (video clips, full length videos about but not limited to youth in gangs)
• Bangin’ in Little Rock