Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Meeting

Subcommittee on Policy’s Report to the Coordinating Council

Overview

The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Policy 

Subcommittee has met four times since the last full Coordinating Council meeting on 

December 6, 2023. Monthly meetings were held on December 14, 2023; January 25, 2024; 

February 15, 2024; and March 21, 2024

Quarterly Update

Discussions on Recommendations

During the four meetings covered by this report, members continued to review and discuss the 

recommendations they will present to the full Council. The Policy Subcommittee and the 

Programs and Practice Subcommittee started with nearly 100 recommendations, drawn from 

ideas discussed and presented at past Council meetings and shared by members of the public via 

the Council webpage. Included was the input of youth who spoke at the October 2022 re-launch 

meeting; speakers and panelists from Harris County; presenters from the April reentry meeting 

at the Department of Labor; and expert panelists from December 2023. Through a process of 

discussion, internal agency vetting, and prioritization, this list was categorized and narrowed to a 

final list of 16 recommendations for consideration by the full Council at its April 10th meeting.

Annual Report

Subcommittee members also discussed the Annual Report to the President and Congress, which 

is due 120 days after the last Council meeting of the fiscal year. Recommendations identified by 

the subcommittees, and ultimately approved by the full Coordinating Council, will form the 

basis of the recommendations and workplan presented in the Annual Report.

Continuum of Care

At the March meeting, Kristen Kracke, Policy Subcommittee Chair, presented to subcommittee 

members on OJJDP’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Framework. OJJDP uses this framework to 

highlight the range of programs necessary to support justice-involved youth at every point along 

the continuum. The framework ranges from prevention to intervention, out of home placement, 

and reintegration. Kristen noted that this information would also be presented at the April 10th 

full meeting as a possible way to guide the Council’s recommendations and future workplan.

During the course of discussion, subcommittee members shared their thoughts on the CoC 

Framework and its relationship to their own work. Tib Campise, representing the Department of 

Defense, noted that DoD has been using the multi-tiered system of support, which focuses on 

prevention and intervention. The CoC Framework helps members to think about what they can 

put in place to prevent a child from going into the juvenile justice system. Cheri Hoffman, 

representing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), noted that prevention in 

HHS is about keeping children out of the child welfare space. She sees an interplay with child 

welfare across OJJDP’s continuum of care wheel, where child abuse and neglect is a risk factor 

for delinquency, but also a potential out-of-home placement that HHS shares with OJJDP. Jeff 

Buehler, representing the Department of Education, saw elements of Education’s Title I, Part D 
program in the prevention, out-of-home placement, and community reintegration wedges of the 

CoC wheel. 

Recommendations to the Council

The Policy Subcommittee makes the following recommendations to the Coordinating Council.

• The subcommittee recommends that the Council adopt OJJDP’s Continuum of Care as a 

guiding framework for its recommendations and workplan.

• The subcommittee recommends that the Council accept its shortened, top 16 

recommendations list for further consideration. 

Policy Subcommittee Members

Kristen Kracke, Chair, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Marissa Abbott, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Jeffery Buehler, U.S. Department of Education

JosephBullock, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Mary “Tib” Campise, U.S. Department of Defense

Amiyah Davis, Practitioner Member

Sherene Donaldson, U.S. Department of Education

Gregory Henschel, U.S. Department of Education

Cheri Hoffman, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Jennifer Kemp, U.S. Department of Labor

Michael Mendoza, Practitioner Member

Diana Morales, U.S. Department of Defense

Mark Patterson, Practitioner Member

Lourdes Rosado, Practitioner Member

Liz Simons, Practitioner Member

Lisa Trivits, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services