We've got to move beyond one-size-fits-all solutions in the juvenile justice system if we want to help youth achieve better outcomes and build safer communities.

An article on Time.com about adolescent drug treatment is fascinating and unsettling. Unfortunately, it overlooks the fact that ineffective practice persists in the field—despite a decade of innovation.

The recent report of the Governor's Task Force on Transforming Juvenile Justice in New York State is a bold blueprint for system reform. Not to be overlooked among the report’s revelations of abuse and inadequate services, the all-important calls for better oversight, and the sensible recommendation that certain evidence-based programs be introduced as alternatives to incarceration is perhaps the report’s most powerful recommendation: a call for innovation.