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Reentry

Barriers Bigger than Ever

Imagine coming home to nothing. No clothes that fit, no wash cloths, no soap and on top of all of that you enter your community in the middle of a pandemic. COVID-19 has added to the challenges for youths leaving juvenile justice facilities by making it difficult to purchase certain items such as toilet paper and groceries. Performance-based Standards (PbS) tries to ease youth ...

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2020 PbS Reentry Award Winners

The year 2020 marks the fifth year of the Performance-based Standards (PbS) Reentry Award and we celebrated by giving out more than double the awards we’ve given out in past years. This awards season was a little different: In addition to facing the realities of reentering the community without enough resources they also faced a pandemic. We received 10 outstanding applications ...

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PbS Convenes First Virtual Institute on Reentry Data Collection, Reporting and Analysis

On April 28, Performance-based Standards (PbS) along with project partners the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), convened reentry teams for our first virtual institute.   Designed to be virtual for a larger reach, participants from five agencies in four different time zones attended the training at the same time. Parti ...

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Available TTA to Improve Juvenile Reentry Programs

Performance-based Standards (PbS) hosted a webinar earlier this week to announce upcoming training opportunities that will be available through an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) project to improve reentry data capacity within agencies and programs.

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PbS has been a partner in assisting this facility to become a dynamic work environment that is not satisfied with maintaining the status quo.