This measure reflects the number of Juvenile Justice and Youth Services (JJYS) critical assault with injury incidents that occurred within Secure Care, Locked Detention, and Gemstone programs, during specified State Fiscal Year Quarters. Data on JJYS Incidents are collected through the Division's Incident Reporting System.

Results for this measure are updated quarterly, within 45 days after the end of each quarter.

In Fiscal Year 2023, Juvenile Justice and Youth Services (JJYS) identified the need to improve skills for staff working with complex youth entering JJYS residential and secure facilities to reduce critical assault incidents and improve facility safety. JJYS believes that staff training focusing on trauma response, behavior change, and escalation prevention, would best position staff and youth for success in JJYS programs while also improving the overall safety of facilities. However, such a curriculum or training specifically for this skill set did not exist. Therefore, to supplement JJYS's Integrative Crisis Response (ICR) training, and after researching other programs and states' approaches, JJYS developed a new escalation prevention curriculum called CONNECT, a relationship based model for working with youth. The evidence-informed CONNECT training is for all direct care staff and focuses on building relationships, verbal skills, and pre-escalation (i.e, How do we help youth before they escalate so that they can stay closer to baseline and manage their emotions and behavior more effectively?).

JJYS's current goal is to prioritize the CONNECT training during SFY 2025 for units in secure care and detention facilities, to best prepare and support staff working with youth. JJYS believes that implementing this new training will reduce critical assault incidents in facilities. JJYS's target for this measure is to have no critical assault incidents in JJYS opperated, residential facilities.