The latest brief from the Youth Protective Factors Study—a partnership between the CSG Justice Center, UMass Chan Medical School’s Implementation Science and Practice Advances Research Center, and UC Berkeley’s Risk-Resilience Lab—examines how protective factors and strength-based services impact long-term youth reoffending, especially for serious offenses.

Key findings reveal which protective factors help prevent reoffending and how jurisdictions can use this data to improve case planning, supervision, and services.

Read the second brief to explore these insights and their implications for juvenile justice policy and practice: