Technical assistance is provided based on your perceived need. Rather than providing assistance around one or several areas of interest to the field, our technical assistance capacity assumes that you are in the best position to determine your own need. Through the Technical Assistance Resource Center--which contains over 5,500 documents--professional staff and consultants to the Center can provide you with information pertaining to, and not limited to:

detailed program descriptions and evaluations; juvenile justice research studies; court rules; national task force reports, standards, and conference proceedings; etc. Much of the information contained in the Technical Assistance Resource Center is not readily available elsewhere.

Services of technical assistance include:

Telephone help/consultation-
This type of assistance is exclusively devoted to providing help over the phone by way of a referral to a more appropriate resource and/or the provision of a more detailed explanation, description or technical response.

Preparation of packets on various topics of interest to juvenile justice practitioners-
This type of assistance involves disseminating TARC materials that specifically address the requester's needs. They include research materials, evaluation reports, standards, bibliographic searches, previously prepared packets and limited data analyses.

On-site visits-
These delivery methods are reserved for those situations which require a period of in-depth observation by the assistance provider or where successful response to the request requires interaction with a large group of local practitioners.

Cross-site visits-
This delivery process involves getting the requester to a site where the stated problem has been successfully resolved. Rather than provide a consultant to describe the resolution of a problem, the requester can observe first-hand the program or policy in operation.

Workshop/Forums-
From time to time project staff have convened a workshop or forum when so many agencies requested technical assistance on the same topic that is was infeasible to service them individually. A workshop setting affords the opportunity to provide quality assistance to a number of participants.