Development Defining a network is only a first step towards building a successful network. The next step requires an understanding of how network-based integrated juvenile justice and alcohol and drug treatment networks develop over time. The following suggests some beginning ways of understanding how networks form, grow and mature over time. Opportunities Kids, families and communities need more choices from us than they currently have. They need better services, more coordination and more support from us to help them through the maze and back out to their lives.
Communities are ready for better results.
The stakes for failing to coordinate and link services together effectively have never been higher. The Reclaiming Futures Initiative is specifically designed to provide communities the chance to forge new kinds of alliance, take calculated risks to improve service coordinations and outcomes and find new ways to connect youth, families and communities more successfully to one another. Ten communities will be selected to take the next steps forward with the Reclaiming Futures Initiative using the information gleaned from existing literature and practice wisdom of those who have attempted to negotiate this type of systems change, we are preparing to launch. The upcoming grantmaking process will painstakingly provide a vehicle for assessing and ascertaining who is most ready to engage in this level of systems improvement and change. A Practice Guide.