Juvenile Justice

Metis Associates has spent more than a decade applying its knowledge of juvenile justice, juvenile-justice information systems, and information technology to help reduce confinement of youth and improve their chances of success when they return to their communities. Much of this work has been conducted in the area of information technology for the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Metis’s work for JDAI has focused on helping grantees obtain and organize the data needed for planning and assessment and to develop infrastructure for data acquisition, maintenance, and analysis.

Metis’s expertise in the evaluation of youth-development programs extends to programs that help young people who have been released from prison or jail to reenter the workforce and the life of their communities. The evaluation of the NYC Justice Corps implementation, for example, focuses on documenting and understanding the development of this innovative program model, and provides a base of knowledge for a rigorous outcome evaluation.