JIS
What is Juvenile Information Sharing (JIS)?
Achieving successful outcomes for at risk youth and juvenile offenders requires a coordinated approach among the agencies that are responsible for the safety and well being of children, youth, families and communities. A formalized process of information sharing that allows agencies to have access to pertinent “need to know” information is critical for informed decisions regarding interventions, sanctions, incentives, services and policy development.
Information Sharing to Prevent Juvenile Delinquency Project
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded the Center for Network Development (CND) a competitive cooperative agreement to help state and local level jurisdictions improve information sharing practices. CND innovated Juvenile Information Sharing (JIS) as an approach to share need to know information across juvenile justice, child welfare and other youth service agencies; determined Guidelines for JIS, which provide research based standards and methods for achieving JIS; and created a data model for juvenile justice information exchange, the Juvenile Extensible Mark Up Language Data Model.
CND has assisted more than 680 juvenile justice and other youth service professionals address the challenges and barriers to juvenile information sharing through multilevel instructional training and technical assistance.
Learn more about JIS at www.juvenileis.org and on the CND Publications page.
What's New in JIS?
- In 2009 CND will conduct web based instructional training sessions that will highlight developments in juvenile XML and JIS privacy protections.
- The first national Symposium on JIS brought together professionals and advocates from across the nation to learn about JIS developments. Go to http://www.juvenileis.org to review audio tapes and power point presentations of many breakout sessions and a video of the popular plenary session, the “JIS Insider Show”.
- The popular database, State Statutes on Juvenile Records and Information Sharing, is now available through our JIS website. The databse provides quarterly updates on state legislation relevant to JIS that is researched by Dr. Bernard James and students at Pepperdine University.
- Development of the Juvenile Extensible Markup Language (JJXML) data model is NIEM compliant. Potential benefits from JXML reside in the identification of pertinent data components that can be commonly shared and understood among various juvenile justice and other youth serving agencies to benefit individual youth and families.