WA Pilots Juvenile Justice and Social Service Coordination Model

An opinion piece published by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange in September 2019 describes the intersection of housing instability and justice system involvement for youth, and a related cross-system pilot project. Co-designed by the SAJE Center and workgroups in Snohomish and Kitsap Counties in Washington State, the Housing Stability for Youth in Courts (H-SYNC) program is an effort to prevent both homelessness and future court-involvement among youth. The model will be piloted in five WA counties in 2019-2020, and uses existing court data to universally screen juveniles for housing instability, assess the severity of their needs, provide tailored referrals to proven-effective support services, and prompt workers to follow up and reassess.

Read the article here: https://jjie.org/2019/09/20/courts-social-services-can-work-together-on-housing-instability/ 

Learn more about the screening model here: https://www.sajecenter.org/hsync