Practice Area 1: Arrest, Identification, & Detention Practice Area 2: Decision Making Regarding...

Practice Area 1: Arrest, Identification, & Detention

Practice Area 2: Decision Making Regarding Charges

Practice Area 3: Case Assignment, Assessment & Planning

Practice Area 4: Coordinated Case Management & Ongoing Assessment

Practice Area 5: Planning for Youth Permanency, Transition & Case Closure

The Crossover Youth Practice Model Phases & Practice Areas

The Crossover Youth Practice Model Guide can be retrieved at:http://cjjr.georgetown.edu/pm/practicemodel.html

Key Practice Concepts -Phase I

• Improving system practices that lead to youth crossing over

• Family Engagement throughout the life of the case starting at the point of arrest/intake

• Utilizing data to assess DMC/DMR in your target population

• Early identification to improve joint case management and youth outcomes

Phase I - General Practice

• Meet with the family at the point of identification to discuss how the systems will work together

• Ensure families are provided some form of documentation that describes how the two systems function

• Develop Family / MDT meetings to ensure active engagement of all person’s/agencies serving crossover youth

• Examine how the site has addressed disproportionality, with particular attention to the crossover population

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Practice Area 1: Arrest, Identification, & Detention

Practice Area 2: Decision Making Regarding Charges

Practice Area 3: Case Assignment, Assessment & Planning

Practice Area 4: Coordinated Case Management & Ongoing Assessment

Practice Area 5: Planning for Youth Permanency, Transition & Case Closure

The Crossover Youth Practice Model Phases & Practice Areas

The Crossover Youth Practice Model Guide can be retrieved at:http://cjjr.georgetown.edu/pm/practicemodel.html

• Create protocols that specify how client information databases can be searched to identify crossover youth.

• Create a memorandum of agreement that describes the ability of child welfare and juvenile justice staff to share information about youth and families involved in both systems. These agreements may also include sharing of educational and behavioral health information.*

• Utilize validated screening and cross system assessment tools that can be used while the youth is in detention.

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Phase I – Arrest, Identification and Detention

* Attorney Protocols developed – see examples from CYPM sites

• Conduct diversion meetings and pursue strategies to reduce youth crossing over into the juvenile justice system.

• Partner on identifying and funding prevention services to ensure that crossover youth have access to services funded by both systems.

• Ensure the CW social worker is in attendance at any relevant JJ court hearings

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Phase I – Decision Making Regarding Charges

Crossover Youth Practice Model Checking In on Progress – Phase I

Ensure that your Implementation Team has considered how:• youth crossover in your jurisdiction, looking for “hot spots,”• staff across child welfare, juvenile justice and other relevant systems will coordinate work during this phase, • family meetings will be convened upon initial notification of a youth crossing over into the juvenile justice system,• legal and relevant caseworker staff will work together to address initial intake, detention and charging decisions, • families will be provided with written material that explains the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and what they can anticipate will be occurring with their case,• the impact on disproportionality will be explored at all decision points across child welfare and juvenile justice, and• funding and other resources will be identified that can be shared between the systems to improve or offer services for dually-involved youth.

Conduct an inventory of the assessment tools used in bothchild welfare and juvenile justice. (This will assist in thedevelopment of a consolidated assessment of the youth andfamily).

Upon notification of a new crossover youth case, the newlyassigned probation officer should immediately make contactwith the assigned social worker. This contact should be madewithin three to five days. This level of contact may happenpre- or post adjudication.

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Phase II: Practice Area 3: Case Assignment, Assessment & Case Planning

Complete a consolidated/joint assessment of the family and youth includingthe following:

• Review of behavior patterns over time;• Examination of the family strengths and protective factors;• Assessment of the overall needs of the youth and family that affect the

safety, permanency, and well-being of children and youth in the family;• Consideration of contributing factors (caregivers) such as domestic

violence, substance abuse, mental health, chronic health problems, and poverty;

• Assessment of criminogenic factors including peer group, school performance, family dynamics, substance abuse, self regulation, history of delinquent behaviors; and

• Review of information gathered through other assessments from partnering agencies (i.e. mental health, substance abuse)

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Development of an integrated case plan that:

• Creates a direct link between the identified need areas and the goals, tasks, interventions and services.

• Focuses interventions on assisting parents/caregivers to improve their parenting skills and the youth in changing his/her risk taking behaviors.

• Are focused, time limited, behaviorally specific, attainable, relevant, and understandable to all and agreed to by the parent(s).

• Provide the basis for understanding when the work is completed. Conversely, they provide the basis for deciding that sufficient change has not occurred so that permanency goals may be justified and pursued.

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Families should help guide the process of determining what interventionscould best address their situation, within the context of a sharedcommitment to making necessary changes. This process should betransparent – the CW social worker/JJ case worker team should share thetools and information being used to build the service plan.

There is an expectation that all jurisdictions will make a commitment toreduce its use of group care (including residential and institutional) forcrossover youth. Residing in a family setting is ideal for all youth regardlessof their current or past situation.

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Identify kin to care for crossover youth. • Strive to engage the family as soon as the youth is

identified to the system. • Ensure that kin are given the same level of support as

resource families.

Sites must implement one of the following Court models: • Dedicated court docket • One judge/one family• Multi-system planning and court reporting.

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Ensure that your Implementation Team has:• Conducted an inventory of the assessment tools used in

both child welfare and juvenile justice (this will assist in the development of a consolidated or aligned assessment of the youth and family).

• Developed a protocol that ensures that upon notification of a new crossover youth case, the newly assigned probation officer immediately makes contact with the assigned social worker. This contact should be made within three to five days.

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Crossover Youth Practice ModelChecking in on Progress - Phase II

Ensure that the Implementation Team has:Created a protocol that provides for a consolidated/joint assessment of thefamily and youth including the following:


safety, permanency, and well-being of children and youth in the family;• Consideration of contributing factors (caregivers) such as domestic violence,

substance abuse, mental health, chronic health problems, and poverty; • Assessment of criminogenic factors including peer group, school

performance, family dynamics, substance abuse, self regulation, history of delinquent behaviors; and


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Ensure that your Implementation Team has:• Developed an integrated case planning approach that results in case

plans that:• Create a direct link between the identified need areas and the goals,

tasks, interventions and services.

• Focus interventions on assisting parents/caregivers to improve their parenting skills and the youth in changing his/her risk taking behaviors.


• Provide the basis for understanding when the work is completed; and conversely, provide the basis for deciding that sufficient change has not occurred so that alternative permanency goals may be justified and pursued.

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Ensure that your Implementation Team has:• Conducted an inventory of the assessment tools used in

both child welfare and juvenile justice (this will assist in the development of a consolidated or aligned assessment of the youth and family).

• Developed a protocol that ensures that upon notification of a new crossover youth case, the newly assigned probation officer immediately makes contact with the assigned social worker. This contact should be made within three to five days.

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Ensure that the Implementation Team has:Created a protocol that provides for a consolidated/joint assessment of thefamily and youth including the following:


safety, permanency, and well-being of children and youth in the family;• Consideration of contributing factors (caregivers) such as domestic violence,

substance abuse, mental health, chronic health problems, and poverty; • Assessment of criminogenic factors including peer group, school

performance, family dynamics, substance abuse, self regulation, history of delinquent behaviors; and


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Ensure that your Implementation Team has:• Developed an integrated case planning approach that results in case

plans that:• Create a direct link between the identified need areas and the goals,

tasks, interventions and services.

• Focus interventions on assisting parents/caregivers to improve their parenting skills and the youth in changing his/her risk taking behaviors.


• Provide the basis for understanding when the work is completed; and conversely, provide the basis for deciding that sufficient change has not occurred so that alternative permanency goals may be justified and pursued.

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Phase 3: Practice Area 4 - Coordinated Case Supervision & Ongoing Assessment

Consideration of the use of coordinated case supervision (between the agencies), specialized case management & supervision units, special qualifications and/or training of case managers, & use of CW or JJ liaisons

CW social worker and JJ case worker should make a determination as to which agency should take the lead in providing services on a case

Minimum of monthly contact regarding each case to ensure coordination of efforts the CW social worker & JJ case worker

Ensure the conducting of formal gatherings based on case dynamics; to include (but not limited to):

- Prior to court hearings- When significant changes in family dynamics occur- At the request of family member

Phase 3: Practice Area 5 - Planning for Permanency, Case Closure & Transition

Begin planning for permanency at the onset of a case

Ensure that concurrent planning is occurring throughout the life of a case

Embedding learning opportunities for independent skills throughout service delivery in all aspects of the case

Implementing the use of permanency pacts for all crossover youth

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