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- The National Standards
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
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- What People Are Saying about the National Standards
- Key Principles
- Section 1. Principles for Responding to Status Offenses
- Section 2. Efforts to Avoid Court Involvement
- Section 3. Efforts to Limit Court Involvement
- Section 4. Recommendations for Policy and Legislative Implementation
- Section 5. Definitions
- Improving Responses to Youth Charged with Status Offenses: A Training Curriculum
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- National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition
- Police and Youth Relations
- Public Safety Performance Project
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- Probation Reform Project
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Executive Board Roles and Responsibilities
The Executive Board holds legal, fiduciary, strategic, and policy-setting authority for CJJ and is empowered to take action between meetings of the Council of SAGs. All members are voluntary and serve without remuneration. There is potential for the Executive Board to have as many as 20 members, all of whom serve staggered two-year terms. They are elected or appointed as follows:
- The CJJ National Chair, Vice Chair, Immediate Past Chair, Treasurer/Secretary, Youth Chair, and Ethnic & Cultural Diversity Chair – are elected by the CJJ Council of SAGs;
- The National Juvenile Justice Specialist Representative, the National Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator Representative, and the National Compliance Monitor Representative are elected by Specialists, R/ED Coordinators, and Compliance Monitors respectively, who work with SAGs in good member standing with CJJ; and
- Four Regional Chairs and Four Regional Representatives are elected by SAG members, Affiliate Organization members, and Members at Large within each of CJJ’s four regions. All Regional Chairs must represent a member SAG.
Executive Board Members
Tracey L. Wells-Huggins (NJ) National Chair New Jersey State Advisory Group Member |
Jack Martin (NV) National Vice Chair Client Executive, Tyler Technologies |
Michelle Diaz (NY) Immediate Past Chair Chairwoman, Canary Impact Fund |
James Hollywood III (DC) Treasurer/Secretary Annie E. Casey |
Tamerdis Hollywood (DC) |
Isidro Marino (KS) Emerging Leaders Committee Chair |
The Honorable Michael Mayer (MN) Midwestern Regional Chair Minnesota State Advisory Group Member, State District Court Judge, 1st Judicial District, Minnesota |
Callie Hargett (MN) Midwestern Regional Representative Director of Youth Justice Office at MN Department of Public Safety |
Janelle Ridley (MA)
Northeastern Regional Chair Founder of Transition HOPE
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Jill Ruggiero (CT) Northeast Regional Representative Professor & Youth Justice Training Consultant |
Chief Tony Jones (FL) Southern Regional Chair Chief of Police, City of Gainesville |
Hasan Davis (KY) Southern Regional Representative |
Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni (HI) Western Regional Representative President and CEO Partners in Development Foundation |
The Honorable Joan Byer (KY) Southern Regional Representative Bowles & Byer Family Law Mediation |
Max Mendoza (KS) Western Region Chair Juvenile Defense Coordinator, Colorado Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel |
Rachel Bingham (KY) |
Anya Sekino (OR) National Juvenile Justice Specialist Juvenile Justice Specialist, Oregon State Advisory Group |
Toni Lemons (DC) National Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator Representative Compliance Monitor, Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council |
Cecely Reardon (MA) Representative at Large Acting Commissioner, Department of Youth Services |
Melissa Milchman (DC) Government Relations Committee Chair Juvenile Justice Specialist, Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants |
Danny Turek (OH) National Compliance Monitor Department of Youth Services |
Shay Bilchik (MD) Representative at Large Founder/Director Emeritus, Juvenile Justice Reform, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University |
Pastor Edward Palmer (KY) |