Supporting Crossover Youth Involved with Child Welfare and Juvenile Court Systems

Session specific videos:

Welcome & Opening Remarks (Christian M. Connell, Ph.D., Director, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State)

Session 1:  Understanding the Crossover Youth Population (Denise C. Herz, Ph.D., Professor, School of Criminal Justice & Criminalistics at California State University, Los Angeles & Joseph P. Ryan, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan, Co-Director, Child and Adolescent Data Lab)

Session 2:  Crossover Youth Effects in Pennsylvania

1. Do Foster Youth Face Harsher Juvenile Justice Outcomes? (Ezra Goldstein, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University)
2. What happens when justice contact precedes substantiated child welfare concerns? The effects of ‘reverse crossover’ on the child welfare response (Christian M. Connell, Ph.D., Director, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State University)
3. Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism for Child Welfare Involved Youth (Allison Kurpiel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Penn State University)

Session 4: Implementing Crossover Youth and Dual System Youth Models

1. Determining the What: Making systemic changes that support youth who are at-risk of or have crossed over (Macon Stewart, MSW, Senior Fellow/Deputy Director in the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center for Juvenile Justice Reform)
2. Building a Collaborative Multi-System Team to Support Youth and Families (Jacki Hoover, LSW, previously Deputy Director for Allegheny County Children, Youth and Families)
3. David Workman, J.D., Administrative Lead Judge in Juvenile and Family Court of Lancaster Count

Session 5: State Perspectives on the Intersection of Children and Youth Services and the Juvenile Justice System’s Response 

1. Laval Miller-Wilson, J.D., Deputy Secretary of the Office of Children, Youth & Families (OCYF) via Zoom
2. Robert Tomassini, MS, Executive Director of the Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission (JCJC)
3. Jonathan McVey, Complex Needs Planner for the PA Department of Human Services