The development and evolution of Reclaiming Futures at the ten-year mark: Reflections and recommendations

Laura Burney Nissen and Dan Merrigan

Children and Youth Services Review, 2011, vol. 33, issue Supplement 1, S9-S15

Abstract: Reclaiming Futures has been a successful national demonstration project, initially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which seeks to improve a system-wide response to young people in the juvenile justice system with substance abuse issues. The initiative is a multiyear effort that has included complex simultaneous community and cross-system planned change efforts. The intention of the initiative is to develop, test, and disseminate a response to unmet needs and to extensive gaps and fragmentation in the availability and quality of services and opportunities that would have a positive impact not only on the lives of individual youth, but on community capacity to engage and encourage youth success as well. This article summarizes the developmental trajectory of the initiative, with a focus on elements of the planned change process. How change efforts were conceptualized, sequenced, executed, and evaluated are discussed and their implications explored. Now adopted in 29 communities around the nation, this article describes two federal and state dissemination efforts as examples of its continued expansion.

Keywords: Reclaiming; Futures; Juvenile; justice; reform; Systems; change; Collaboration; Adolescent; substance; abuse; treatment; Leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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