New report for those who advocate and provide services to adolescent status offenders

This important resource from the American Bar Association is filled with useful information for those who advocate and provide services to adolescents at risk of, or accused and charged with status offenses (noncriminal offences such as truancy, and running away, that lead in distressingly increasing numbers to youth being adjudicated and incarcerated). It was designed specifically for lawyers, but has great information on adolescent development, understanding the rights of youth, accessing and understanding social services and working with the judicial system that will prove useful to anyone working with adolescents.

Chapters, written by some of the top experts in the field address:
• using federal law to support advocacy
• understanding and using social science research to work with status offenders
• accessing intervention services
• applying pre- and post-adjudication strategies
• using special education advocacy in status offense cases
• crossing over to other family court proceedings.

The report is available for a short time as a free PDF, and is available for purchase as a bound report.

Representing Juvenile Status Offenders, American Bar Association, Hannah Benton, Shay Bilchik, Jana Heyd, Erika Pinheiro, Claire Shubik, Tobie J. Smith, Martha Stone,Casey Trupin, Joseph B. Tulman,
http://www.abanet.org/child/rjso_final.pdf