In a letter to the Editor of The New York Times, John Tuell, Executive Director of RFK National Resource Center, responded to a recent column ,“Jane Didn’t Get the Help She Needed“ (by Nicholas Kristof; column, June 29) that brought to light the tragic story of a 16-year-old transgender youth in … Continued

The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) recently featured an op-ed by John Tuell, Executive Director of RFK National Resource Center, on the need for dual status youth reform and the importance of multi-system collaboration. The op-ed, Dual … Continued

A new resource, Dependency and Delinquency in SYNC, describes how courts can support community efforts to integrate and coordinate youth-serving system and improve outcomes for dual status youth, and demonstrates how these strategies have been successfully implemented in Newton County’s (Georgia) project: Serving Youth in Newton County (SYNC). This report, authored by Jessica Heldman … Continued

A new online database is introducing powerful tools to help policy makers, advocates, researchers and the media to chart nationwide change in juvenile justice policy, practices, and statistics. The Juvenile Justice GPS (JJGPS – Geography, Policy, Practice & Statistics) site monitors juvenile justice system change by examining state laws and juvenile justice practice, combined with … Continued

On Friday, June 6, the RFK National Resource Center presented a webinar, Dual Status Youth and their Families: Altering the Human and Fiscal Toll Through Improved Youth and System Outcomes, which highlighted the challenges and opportunities jurisdictions face when working with dual status youth population (youth known to both child welfare and juvenile justice) and introduced … Continued