OJJDP Family Listening Sessions: Executive Summary - Office of ...

2. What was your child’s experience with the system Were all of your needs met
3. What was your family’s experience with the system Were your needs met and your rights
respected
4. Was there aftercare; i.e., what happened when your child was no longer in the system Did
your child receive support
The facilitators asked additional questions within each topic area to clarify the kinds of responses
that they considered appropriate and to stimulate the discussion. The full list of questions appears
in appendix A.
Participants
Racially and ethnically diverse families of varying socioeconomic backgrounds participated in
the listening sessions. Collectively, the participants represented a geographically dispersed group
from locations across the United States, as shown in table 2.
Table 2: States Represented by Family Participants
• Arizona • Maryland • Nevada • South Carolina
• Colorado • Minnesota • New Mexico • South Dakota
• Illinois • Mississippi • Oklahoma • Virginia
• Louisiana • Missouri • Pennsylvania • Wisconsin
The participants represented a cross-sampling of jurisdictions and juvenile and criminal justice
systems across the United States and comprised the following three groups:
• Male and female teens currently in the system.
• Male and female teens and young adults previously involved in the system.
• Primary caregivers; i.e., parents, grandparents, guardians, and foster parents of youth
involved in the system.
Identities of the family participants have been kept confidential. Contact information for
participants from the organizing agencies, where available, is provided in appendix B.