Oregon Coalition of Advocates for Equal Access for Girls: Bringing a Trauma-Informed and Gender-Responsive Lens to Juvenile Justice
The Coalition of Advocates for Equal Access for Girls (Coalition) in support of state and county juvenile justice in Oregon developed two handbooks for the field: Gender-Responsive Standards and Assessment Tool (G-SAT) – Handbook and Trauma-Informed Practices for Working with Girls – Staff Handbook. National Crittenton spoke to Pam Patton at Oregon Coalition for Equal Access for Girls about their handbooks as a model of innovation and lessons for the field from this process.