The Justice Initiative for Drug Endangered Families (JI-DEF)
For more information on JI-DEF, visit www.jidef.org.
JI-DEF Collaboration
Serving as relentless advocates for children and families. We work as a team to span team boundaries and employ a multidisciplinary method to support prevention, early intervention, substance recovery and offender accountability.
JI-DEF seeks to identify drug endangered families and provide high quality care using evidence based prevention and treatment models. JIDEF provides opportunities for parental substance recovery, the prevention of child maltreatment, and reduction of child welfare involvement & out of home placement when appropriate. JI-DEF utilizes evidence-based home visitation in child maltreatment cases. This highly aggressive initiative recognizes that all systems play an overlapping role in supporting children and families while keeping the community safe.
The Justice Initiative for Drug Endangered Families (JI-DEF) is a unique collaboration between:
- Denver Juvenile and District Courts
- Denver District Attorney’s Office
- Denver Police Department
- Denver Department of Human Services
- Denver Juvenile Probation Department and its internal DJFJ TASC Project
- Denver District Probation Department
- Denver Drug Endangered Children’s Alliance
- The Kempe Center ASPIRE Program
- Community Based Service Organizations
Each partner addresses their area of need, but always keeps in mind how to work towards the best outcome for the entire family.
The Kempe Center ASPIRE Program - Access to Services for Parent Infant Relationship Enhancement (ASPIRE) works to treat trauma exposed children, regardless of child welfare involvement, to ensure that these children do not become abusers themselves.
Law enforcement advocates - work directly with families to provide support and promote accountability.
Probation and Court systems - integrate a family centered approach during the course of a criminal case.
TASC - serves as an internal treatment component within the probation department, and houses substance abuse clinicians who assist in coordinating prevention and treatment services, encouraging offender compliance and family advocacy.
To find out more about this program please contact:
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Lilas Rajaee-Moore |
Dr. Christina Little Director, ASPIRE Program 12123 E 16th Ave. B390 Aurora CO 80045 303-864-5300 little.christina@tchden.org |
