Bridging Two Worlds: Youth Involved in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems – A Policy Guide for Improving Outcomes

January 1, 2008 This guide is intended to provide the primary options for formal policy development and implementation at the federal, tribal, State, and local levels on behalf of youth who cross over from child welfare to juvenile justice, or from juvenile justice to the child welfare system. It is derived from a Wingspread Conference held from May 7-9 2008, to outline a policy agenda to improve outcomes for these children and their families. The guide begins with an explanation of why action from the national policy level to the individual case practice level in the child welfare and . . .