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We Saw Long-lasting Reforms from Models for Change in Our States

By Robert G. Schwartz, Diane Geraghty, Stephen Phillippi and Bobbe Bridge | February 19, 2018

The work done during the Models for Change Initiative (funded by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) has embedded structural and practice improvements that continue to influence policy change in juvenile justice toward a more developmentally oriented and equitably responsive system.

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