Power of Us Workforce Survey

Seeking Juvenile Justice Input on Recruitment and Retention Issues

Recruitment, retention, and workforce development have been challenging issues for the juvenile justice system for a number of years, but has been exacerbated during the pandemic.  The National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) made these issues a top priority to study and address in 2023.

To better inform strategy about this important issue, NPJS is partnering with American Institutes for Research (AIR) to gather data from those working the front lines as well as those volunteering with justice involved youth.  An important survey has been designed to learn more about the experiences and career aspirations of the youth fields workforce – including detention and residential frontline staff and volunteers.

Please help us by asking your staff and volunteers to take this anonymous survey (Power of Us Workforce Survey) and select National Partnership for Juvenile Services as the organization that connected them with the survey. If we can boost the survey responses from the juvenile justice sector, this data set will help inform our recruitment strategies as well as how to better support our staff to stay and grow in the field.

The survey closes March 31st and we need your help to make sure the juvenile justice sector is well represented in this study. 

Please share the survey with your direct care staff and volunteer coordinators. All survey completers have the option to enter into a monthly drawing for ten $100 gift cards.

Thank you, and reach out to powerofus@air.org with questions. Let’s lift up the voices of our sector’s staff in this important study!