National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ)

The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) is a national center to conduct research, training, technical assistance, advocacy, and dissemination activities to develop more effective responses to the needs of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system or those at-risk for involvement with it.

Center activities included school- and community-based prevention, education programs in detention and correctional settings, transition interventions for youth leaving corrections and reentering their communities, the release of a monograph series, and a national survey to determine the prevalence of disabilities among system-involved youth. AIR has had a leading role in four aspects of the Center: project management, policy studies, survey/data analysis and the dissemination of EDJJ's research.