Juvenile Justice Reform and its Impact on Youth Serving Agencies:
Youth Service Bureaus, Juvenile Review Boards and Status Offenses
Speaker
Erika Bromley, CYSA and KADE Consulting
Program Description
Learn about the statutorily based Youth Service Bureau System, Diversion and efforts to combat truancy. In this training learn more about how a Youth Service Bureau functions, what Diversion is, and how youth who are truant are being identified and served. After a brief introduction of the YSB and JRB system, discussion will be focused on recent reforms that have changed the way status offenders and delinquency cases are referred and look at the gaps in services, barriers and other difficulties, especially in serving the truant population.
Speaker Bio
Erica Bromley, MSW, is a consultant for CYSA and the owner of KADE Consulting. She currently serves as the Juvenile Justice Consultant for CYSA (CT Youth Services Association). She has extensive experience in the Juvenile Justice sector and with the Youth Service Bureau system, having been a director in two different towns for a total of 16 years prior to becoming a consultant in 2014.
Erica has had extensive involvement in the field of Juvenile Justice and Diversion, as well as with advocacy at the local, state and federal levels. She has worked closely with the CT General Assembly on several projects and regularly advocates for CYSA, YSBs, and for Juvenile Justice reform. She is currently the LIST (Local Interagency Service Team) grant manager, overseeing all 12 LISTs across CT. She is a trained Results Based Accountability (RBA) trainer and has also been trained in Facilitative Leadership. In 2016, she co-authored the Juvenile Review Board Policies and Procedures Guide, which received its copyright in 2017. She has also done extensive work with Chronic Absence and Truancy intervention and reform.
Erica is currently a member of the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee (JJPOC), a legislatively bound committee working on strengthening the Juvenile Justice system and state level policy across CT. She is also the Co-Chair of its Diversion Workgroup and its multiple subgroups, as well as a member of the Executive Team and the Data Sharing, Auto Theft, and Education subgroups. She is a member of the CT Juvenile Alliance (CTJA) Steering Team, and a previous member of the CT Kids report Card, which was run through the Legislature’s Children’s Committee, and its liaison to the Chronic Absenteeism Strategic Action Group (the group is no longer active). In May of 2016, Erica received an executive certificate in Juvenile Diversion from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and is now a Georgetown Fellow.
Erica graduated with her MSW from Springfield College School of Social Work and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a BA in Psychology and Education. She is also a former member of the Hebron Board of Education and held the position of Board Chair. She currently lives in Hebron with her son, husband, two dogs and three horses.