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ERIC Number: ED609277
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Oct
Pages: 12
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Expanding the Arts across the Juvenile Justice System. Policy Brief
Johnson, Krystal; Pechota, Damion
Education Commission of the States
In a one-day count in 2018, an estimated 37,529 youths resided in juvenile placement facilities across the United States. While the estimated number of juveniles in residential placement facilities has dropped by more than half over 20 years, alternative placement to other government juvenile facilities continues to remove youths from their community and education, creating inequitable, unreliable or inaccessible opportunities to engage in the arts. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified persistent inequities in the juvenile justice system, particularly access to resources related to youth well-being and developmental success, such as the arts. At the end of 2019, the Arts Education Partnership's (AEP) renewed cooperative agreement with its federal partners identified juvenile justice as a new focus area. AEP began this work with a landscape analysis on engaging the arts across the juvenile justice system, focusing on programs that employ the arts. This research found that engaging the arts across the juvenile justice spectrum of prevention, intervention, transition and healing is an area that merits further exploration. This Policy Brief captures the discussion, insights and policy considerations that came out of a Thinkers Meeting with 11 experts in the arts education and juvenile justice fields. It builds on the report, "Engaging the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System," by providing examples for building sustainable, arts-based programming. [For "Engaging the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System," see ED605530.]
Education Commission of the States. ECS Distribution Center, 700 Broadway Suite 1200, Denver, CO 80203-3460. Tel: 303-299-3692; Fax: 303-296-8332; e-mail: ecs@ecs.org; Web site: http://www.ecs.org
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education (ED); National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Authoring Institution: Education Commission of the States, Arts Education Partnership (AEP)
Identifiers - Location: Nevada; Maine; Utah; California
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Every Student Succeeds Act 2015
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A