CAREER: Developing and Testing the Integrated Youth Development Model Framework for the Future of Juvenile Justice Scholarship, Education, and Practice

在美国，我们有一个单独的青少年司法系统，因为政策制定者，从业者和研究人员认为，儿童在法律上需要不同的待遇方面与成年人有着根本的不同。具体来说，我们认为他们更容易接受治疗，干预和康复。事实上，当他们得到适当的支持和资源时，儿童的适应力非常强。然而，少年司法领域通常侧重于遵守和控制，而不是促进积极成长和帮助青年发挥潜力。为了促进健康，繁荣和福利的司法参与青年和移动领域的未来，少年司法系统的政策制定者，从业者和研究人员需要一个指导框架，阐明如何跨学科的方法可以整合，以促进青年蓬勃发展和结构化的一套工具和方法，可以测试框架。我们需要一个组织和指导该领域的示范框架，衡量青年成功的新工具，而不仅仅是他们的缺陷和累犯，以及一个可以在其他司法管辖区轻松复制的示范计划，以促进青年成功。该项目包括一个综合研究，教育和实施计划，致力于开发和测试综合青年发展模式（IYDM），这是一个新的理论框架，展示了如何将跨学科方法整合并提炼成一套可行的核心原则，促进参与正义的青年蓬勃发展。具体而言，CAREER项目有四个目标：（1）开发国际年活动，利用社会生态、青年积极发展、青年赋权和学习科学，促进青年取得积极成果;（2）为各管辖区构建和测试“积极变革中心工具”，以评估国际年知情原则方面的现行做法和观点;（3）系统地测试IYDM的要素，并对参与JJS的青年产生积极影响;（4）让大学生、青年及其家长参与学习和参与行动研究。在这样做的过程中，调查员将创建工具，评估司法管辖区在多大程度上参与积极的青年变化，以及使司法管辖区从评估累犯作为唯一的结果，以使用新的工具，评估其对积极成果的影响。将使用定量/实验和参与性行动研究方法，研究将在全国最大的少年司法系统之一内进行。总而言之，该项目将产生一个新的，经验支持，可持续的，可复制的路径，为青少年司法奖学金，教育和实践的重点是促进学习和growth.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

In the United States, we have a separate juvenile justice system because policymakers, practitioners, and researchers believe that children are fundamentally different from adults in ways that requires different treatment under the law. Specifically, we believe they are more amenable to treatment, intervention, and rehabilitation. Indeed, when they receive the proper supports and resources, children are remarkably resilient. However, the juvenile justice field typically focuses on compliance and control rather than promoting positive growth and helping youth reach their potential. To advance the health, prosperity, and welfare of justice-involved youth and move the field into the future, juvenile justice system policymakers, practitioners, and researchers need a guiding framework that illuminates how interdisciplinary approaches can be integrated to promote youth thriving and a structured set of tools and approaches that can test the framework. We need a model framework for organizing and guiding the field, new tools for measuring youths’ success rather than just their deficits and recidivism, and a model program that can be replicated easily in other jurisdictions to promote youth success. This project consists of an integrated research, education, and implementation plan devoted to developing and testing the Integrated Youth Development Model (IYDM), a novel theoretical framework that demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches can be integrated and distilled into a workable set of core tenets that promotes thriving among justice-involved youth. Specifically, the CAREER project has four objectives: (1) Develop the IYDM, which leverages social ecology, positive youth development, youth empowerment, and learning science, to promote positive youth outcomes; (2) Construct and test a “Positive Change Center Tool” for jurisdictions to assess current practices and perspectives on IYDM-informed principles; (3) Systematically test elements of the IYDM and positively impact JJS-involved youth; and (4) Engage university students, youth, and their parents in learning and participatory action research. In doing so, the investigator will create tools that assess how much jurisdictions engage in positive youth change, as well as enable jurisdictions to shift from assessing recidivism as the sole outcome to using new tools that assess their impacts on positive outcomes. Both quantitative/experimental and participatory action research methodologies will be used, and the studies will take place within one of the nation’s largest juvenile justice systems. Altogether, the project will yield a new, empirically supported, sustainable, and replicable path forward for juvenile justice scholarship, education, and practice focused on promoting learning and growth.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.