Working Together: Building Local Monitoring Capacity for Juvenile Detention Centres.

Summary: The California Juvenile Hall Self-
Inspection Training Project was
established by the Annie E Casey
Foundation and the Youth Law
Center
when the State of California
discontinued funding for state
agency
inspections of juvenile detention
facilities and handed over
responsibility for monitoring
conditions to the facilities themselves
in 1992
The California Juvenile Hall Self-Inspection Training Project was
established by the Annie E Casey Foundation and the Youth Law
Center
when the State of California discontinued funding for state
agency
inspections of juvenile detention facilities and handed over
responsibility for monitoring conditions to the facilities themselves
in 1992.

Working Together, is a report on this project. The goals of the
project were to increase knowledge of applicable legal standards
and
to develop local capacity to do quality self-inspections of juvenile
facilities. The successes of the project far exceeded these goals.
It
created an unprecedented opportunity for collaboration between
children's advocates and those who work in facilities and many
countied went from the self-inspections to correction of
deficiencies.
Owner: Sue Burrell and Loren Warboys

Web: 
http://www.youthlawcenter.com/htm/ylc_jjus.htm

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