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    This document discusses a feasibility study examining a trauma-informed mindfulness-based yoga intervention for justice-involved youth in multi-site juvenile justice facilities. Stakeholders perceived positive impacts on youth such as improved anger management, calming effects, and better emotion regulation. However, implementation challenges included lack of staffing support and negative staff attitudes towards yoga. Facilitators and obstacles to both implementing yoga classes and expanding the program more widely are explored.

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    A Trauma-Informed, Mindfulness-Based Yoga Intervention with Justice-Involved

    Youth: A Feasibility Study Examining Challenges and Successes of a Yoga


    Intervention in Multi-Site Juvenile Justice Facilities
    Ashli Owen-Smith, PhD; Michaela Cotner, MA; Lynn DeBar, PhD; Ralph DiClemente, PhD; Julian Ford, PhD; Matt Hayat, P

    UND Q
    THEMES
    recidivism among youth in the juvenile
    ffectiveness. “…there was one youth that used to really get just
    key predictor of recidivism, trauma- Stakeholder’s Perceived Impact of Yoga on Youth hot tempered. He was always argumentative with
    posure to traumatic events is Ø Improved Anger management everything. Then—he was one of our longer-
    standing kids in the TIMBY project and yoga. He wa
    Ø Calming effect just more pick your battle type guy…he wasn’t as
    Ø Better Emotion/Mood regulation quick to anger. He definitely wasn’t as impulsive.”
    Ø Relief of trauma symptoms
    URPOSE
    Ø Yoga as a trigger for trauma symptoms
    med, mindfulness-based yoga (TIMBY)
    Ø Enhances other DJJ programs
    uth
    “I can count on one hand, where it brings back some trau
    current implementation of the memories and some flashbacks of things that have bee
    upsetting that they come back when they get quiet,
    especially during savasana. Then that’s when it’s potent
    cale implementation of the Facilitators to Implementing Yoga Classes in the Facility upset for them because they’re remembering things.
    That…isn’t a bad thing. It’s just something that we have t
    Ø Sufficient staffing to support yoga classes aware of as clinicians so that we can follow up with the
    Ø Collaboration between departments within the facility
    DS and make sure they get some debriefing or counseling
    afterwards.
    stakeholders from various roles within

    out the Department of Juvenile Justice “I think that the collaborat


    teamwork across our divisio
    Y study make it work, to take those ba
    ure Facilities (N=1) and try and find solutions fo
    port Services (N=1) Obstacles to Implementing Yoga Classes in the Facility
    a DJJ facility (N=3) Ø Lack of security staffing to support program
    Ø Staff perception of and attitude towards yoga (e.g. “People who may not be open to change. People who
    resistant to change, unable to see beneftis) don’t want to try different things and new things. If you
    want the best for your kids, you’re gonna try things that
    IS will help them. Bad attitudes…people who are not open to
    something different, that would definitely hinder the
    standard qualitative content analysis success of a yoga program.”
    ing NVivo text-analysis software.
    monstrate high intra-rater reliability, Factors Impacting Youth Participation in Yoga
    alitative categories and themes Ø Characteristics of youth (e.g. youth enjoy yoga, interest in
    on of the findings, and discuss and developing leadership skills)
    “In terms of kids wanting to be in the program,
    like I said, some kids are real receptive right
    Ø Teacher qualities (e.g. patient, calming, welcoming) away, and some they just they know for sure
    they don’t wanna do it. The kids that are more
    Ø Other program responsibilities
    TS on the fence, we try to encourage them a little
    bit more to just try it and see if they liked it. It’s
    no commitment.”
    on youth, such as improved behavioral
    Facilitators to Yoga Program Expansion
    ementation of yoga classes Ø Staff and leadership buy-in to yoga “…I just think the buy-in of the staff, especially
    mental health staff, is huge. It doesn’t succeed
    m expansion Ø More outcomes showing benefits of yoga unless there’s people that are promoting it and
    Ø Outcomes specific to populations other than justice-involved championing it. That’s crucial to me. If you
    ON youth (e.g. non-incarcerated youth)
    wanted to take us into a bigger space, I think
    that’s one of the things you can do that would be
    ve impact on youth; challenges that Ø Youth buy-in really helpful in terms of having it catch on.”

    expansion of the program both depend


    ff support and retention
    ce for the positive impact of trauma- Obstacles to Yoga Program Expansion
    “I think other challenges might be location of
    Ø Limited access to yoga service providers the facilities. Some of our long-term facilities are
    r to streamline the implementation of Ø Staffing at each facility further south in the state…there might not be
    access to the providers that might—the physical
    e for future expansion of the program Ø Facility capability location of the facility might be a challenge for
    needed to address lack of access to Ø Systemic issues of the justice system (e.g. Punishment vs. recruitment of teachers or instructors.”
    Rehabilitation)

    Acknowledgments: Research reported in this publicatio


    Integrative Health of the National Institute Health under Aw
    responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily repre

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