
JDAI IN OTOE COUNTY
By Michele Lueders, | Juvenile Intake & Detention Alternatives Specialist Nebraska State Probation
The Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) was designed with the vision that all youth involved in the juvenile justice system have opportunities to develop into healthy, productive adults. After more than two decades of innovation and replication, JDAI is one of the nation's most effective, influential, and widespread juvenile justice system reform initiatives.
JDAI promotes changes to policies, practices, and programs to reduce reliance on secure confinement, improve public safety, reduce racial disparities and bias, save taxpayers' dollars, and stimulate overall juvenile justice reforms.
In Nebraska, JDAI has been active since 2011 in Douglas County and 2012 in Sarpy County. Through the leadership of Judge Robert O’Neal and Dave Partsch Otoe County Attorney, the JDAI efforts expanded into Otoe County, Nebraska’s first rural county to implement JDAI. The local Through the Eyes and Juvenile Justice teams provided an already existing structure for Otoe County to ensure that the right stakeholders were at the table to begin the work and can continue to work together.
Otoe County began by participating in a System Assessment, where multiple community stakeholders were interviewed to discuss what is working well within their community, what barriers exist and what gaps that may exist for young people and their families. Through this process, a report was developed, highlighting what was going well as well as recommendations as to where Otoe County could work to make system improvements. Another part of this process included the development of a Detention Utilization Study, which provided Otoe County with data points related to young people involved with the juvenile justice system.
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LEGISLATIVE REVIEW WEBINAR
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- TIME: 11:00 - 12:00 pm CST
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