Promoting Positive Development: The Critical Need to Reform Youth Probation Orders
This brief outlines the importance of reforming juvenile probation orders so that they are developmentally appropriate, achievable, and individualize in a way to increase positive youth outcomes.
Probation is the most common disposition for youth who are adjudicated in juvenile court. Yet the scope, language, and form of many probation orders make it difficult for youth to succeed while on probation, despite the fact that probation agencies are focused on achieving positive youth development and accountability.
