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Back on Track: Supporting Youth Reentry from Out-of-Home Placement to the Community

Members of the Juvenile Justice Reentry Task Force and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition offer this issue brief to raise awareness and encourage investment of resources to expand reentry services nationally. It outlines the concept of reentry services in theory and practice, offers a review of federal policy previously enacted to support reentry, suggests opportunities for improvements in public policy, and reviews promising initiatives.

Available online

http://www.sentencingproject.org/

Author(s)

Ashley Nellis and Rich Hooks Wayman

Date

November 2009

Publisher

Youth Reentry Task Force of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition