Whats New in N or D

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Whats New in N or D?

• Accountability for Student Performance
• Develop a uniform evaluation model. Improve the
  effectiveness of programs administered by State
  educational agencies by developing a uniform
  evaluation model.
• Local Education Agencies submit program
  evaluation results to the Secretary of Education
  as well as to the State Educational Agency.
• Provide technical assistance to the State
  Education Agencies. Capacity-building of State
  agency programs will be provided by
  Federally-supported technical assistance
  providers.

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Evidence that Communities Are Focusing on
Transition

• Literature review revealed very little that was
  evidence-based and it was hard to find primary
  source data. Very little targeted research has
  been conducted since the early nineties.
• TA Center held two meetings with the Panel of
  Practitioners and Experts and one topical meeting
  with 10 12 states discussing transition.
• SEA, juvenile justice and neglect institutions
  education programs sent representatives
• One criteria - state teams bring the transition
  coordinator
• Second criteria work together the plan

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Whats New in N or D?

• Closing the Achievement Gap for Disadvantaged
  Students
• Make students returning from correction
  facilities a priority. (This is one place we can
  make sure we identify homeless or otherwise
  unaccompanied children.)
• The local educational agency program will need
  focus on the transition and academic needs of
  students returning from correction facilities.
• Coordinate achievement activities. State
  educational agencies are to encourage
  correctional facilities to coordinate with local
  educational agencies or alternative education
  programs so that student assessments and academic
  records are shared jointly between the correction
  facility and the local educational agency or
  alternative education program.

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Evidence of Prioritization of this Population

• Planning together
• State teams identify transition liaisons
• Teams seek promising models from colleagues

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An Introduction to the National Evaluation and
Technical Assistance Center for the Education of
Neglected, Delinquent or At-Risk Children and
Youth

• Disseminate information about effective programs
  and practices related to the issues surrounding
  the education and transition of children and
  youth who are served in neglected or delinquent
  institutions
• Foster collaboration among various neglected and
  delinquent programs, organizations, professionals
  and communities with interest in addressing the
  educational needs of children and youth who are
  served in neglected or delinquent institutions

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Is there any Evidence that information is being
disseminated to others who serve this population?

• States have asked that models be placed on the TA
  Center website
• Numerous presentations have been made at
  national, state and local meetings to get
  information out
• Departments having responsibility for this
  population are partnering in presentations and
  sharing links to the work funded by those
  departments for the same population.

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What do we know about transition planning?

• Best practices in the transition of youth from
  short and long term correctional facilities can
  be identified
• Increases rate of returning to school
• Increases probability of wise use of scarce
  resources
• Provides avenue for communication between all
  stakeholders
• Increases likelihood of successful
  integration/reintegration in the community
• The more youth are engaged the less likely they
  are to recidivate (Bullis, Yovanoff, Mueller
  Havel, 2002)

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Additional Outcome Measures of Successful
Transition

• Written Transition Plan
• Engagement in School
• Placement in and maintaining employment or job
  training
• Presence of caring adult for support
• Funding for transition
• Shared accountability for transition

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Our Website www.neglected-delinquent .org

• Purpose dissemination of information to those
  who serve neglected, delinquent or at risk youth
• Transition is the first issue for Fall 2003
• Information is updated monthly
• Educators can add programs, activities or
  innovations they want to share with colleagues
• Users will be able to ask a question for a
  response from the field through the listserv link

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Our Website www.neglected-delinquent .org

• Purpose dissemination of information to those
  who serve neglected, delinquent or at risk youth
• Transition is the first issue for Fall 2003
• Information is updated monthly
• Educators can add programs, activities or
  innovations they want to share with colleagues
• Users will be able to ask a question for a
  response from the field through the listserv link

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For more information, please contact
Joyce BurrellAmerican Institutes for
Researchjburrell_at_air.org(202)
298-2610 or Natalia Pane American Institutes
for Researchnpane_at_air.org(202) 944-5300