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A Model for Judicial Leadership: Community Responses to Juvenile Substance Abuse

Drawing on the collective experience of Reclaiming Futures, this paper provides information and guidance on the following points: The evolving nature of the judicial role in systemic and community responses to juveniles involved with drugs, alcohol, and crime; the role of the judge as a convenor and collaborator in system change; adapting the principles of problem-solving courts to the creation of an integrated system of care for juveniles involved with substance abuse in the juvenile justice system.

Available online

http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/

Date

March 2006

Publisher

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Periodical

Reclaiming Futures National Fellowship Report