Jon has extensive experience in assessing and making recommendations concerning child welfare programs. He has direct service experience in both field and residential programs. He also offers assessments of the care and services offered in psychiatric programs. Jon can assist in the development or revision of operational policies and procedures.
Jon also has experience in helping agencies develop and improve their quality assurance/quality improvement processes.
JUVENILE JUSTICE:
Jon has extensive experience in juvenile probation, parole, court intake, community residential programs, and training schools. He is experienced in assessing the way programs operate and making suggestions regarding how they might be improved. He is experienced in the development and revision of operational policies and procedures.
Jon also has experience in developing and maintaining effective quality assurance programs for juvenile justice programs.
TRAINING:
Jon is an experienced trainer and public speaker. He has a reputation for being entertaining and informative. On the regional and national level he has made presentations for The American Correctional Association, the Southern Leadership Council of the Child Welfare League of America, the Heartland Juvenile Detention Association, the Southern States Correctional Association, the National Resource Center for Youth Services and the Southwest Association of Youth Services.
Topics have included ethics for those who work with children, anger management, the influence of popular culture on troubled children and youth, and working in a large bureaucracy.
LITIGATION:
Jon has served as an expert witness in cases involving possible wrongful death, conditions of confinement, quality of life, and possible civil rights violations. Jon has worked with both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of cases. He has worked with both private attorneys and lawyers representing agencies.
Jon served as liaison to the Federal Court Monitor in both the child welfare and juvenile justice programs in Oklahoma's Terry D. v. Rader lawsuit. That historic case was dismissed in 1997. Jon has also been a member of the panel established in 2004 to monitor the settlement agreement drawn between the United States Justice Department and Los Angeles County (California) governing conditions of confinement in the three Los Angeles County juvenile halls (secure juvenile detention).
