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Using Youth Courts as a Supportive School Discipline Practice
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This Webinar provides the knowledge that school, district, and court staff, law enforcement and legal personnel, youth, families, and other community stakeholders need to better understand how the use of youth courts in schools can ensure offender accountability while offering fair and restorative consequences for discipline infractions. By directing lower level cases away from the formal justice system, youth courts can be an integral part of a school’s supportive disciplinary process, serving as an alternative to traditional disciplinary measures such as suspension and detention.
Learning Objectives:
~ Understand the primary purposes and functions of youth courts
~ Examine how, through policy and practice change, schools can use youth courts to develop a supportive discipline system
~ Understand the importance of peers in the youth court process and the goals of accountability and restoration
~ Identify various models of youth courts employed by schools and districts using examples from some jurisdictions
This Webinar provides the knowledge that school, district, and court staff, law enforcement and legal personnel, youth, families, and other community stakeholders need to better understand how the use of youth courts in schools can ensure offender accountability while offering fair and restorative consequences for discipline infractions. By directing lower level cases away from the formal justice system, youth courts can be an integral part of a school’s supportive disciplinary process, serving as an alternative to traditional disciplinary measures such as suspension and detention.
Learning Objectives:
~ Understand the primary purposes and functions of youth courts
~ Examine how, through policy and practice change, schools can use youth courts to develop a supportive discipline system
~ Understand the importance of peers in the youth court process and the goals of accountability and restoration
~ Identify various models of youth courts employed by schools and districts using examples from some jurisdictions
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OJJDP State Training and Technical Assistance Center (STTAC)
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00 2013
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