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Ned is the Executive Director of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, and the President of the PbS Learning Institute. He served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) from 1985 to 1993. Prior to that, Mr. Loughran served for more than five years as the Department’s Deputy Commissioner. During his tenure, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency declared DYS the most cost-effective juvenile justice agency in the country, with the lowest recidivism rate. Before coming to Massachusetts in 1980, Mr. Loughran spent 10 years with the New York State Division for Youth as a program director for juvenile offenders and administrator in the agency’s central office. A frequent lecturer and writer on topics of juvenile justice, Mr. Loughran teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses at Suffolk University in Boston. He has served as a consultant to a variety of juvenile justice agencies throughout the country. He co-authored a book: Balancing Juvenile Justice. He is member of the National Association of Juvenile Correctional Agencies, the American Correctional Association and a member of the Correctional Association of Massachusetts. Mr. Loughran holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Saint Joseph’s College (Princeton, N. J.) and graduate degrees from Mary Immaculate College (Northampton, PA) and Fordham University (Bronx, New York).

Kim is the executive director of the PbS Learning Institute, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving youth correctional programs, services and practices. Kim was hired when CJCA incorporated in 1994. In 1995 CJCA was awarded a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), US Department of Justice, to develop and implement Performance-based Standards (PbS) in Youth Correction and Detention Facilities and Ms. Godfrey has worked since then to create the PbS system of continuous improvement to help facilities and agencies raise the quality of life and better conditions of confinement in youth facilities nationwide. In 2004, PbS was named a winner of the Innovations in American Government Award by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University and Ms. Godfrey served as the lead staff for the competition. She also serves as the director of the PbS Learning Institute, a subsidiary organization incorporated in 2004 to transition the free federally-funded PbS program to a income-generating non-profit venture that is sustainable and scaleable. She earned two master’s degrees: in journalism (Northwestern University) and criminal justice (Northeastern University.) She worked as a newspaper reporter for seven years prior to joining CJCA.

Darlene is an administrative assistant for the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the education and support of its members. Prior to CJCA, Darlene worked as an administrator for Interleaf, Inc., an electronic publishing company for 15 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

Jeanne is employed by the CJCA as the accounting manager which handles all areas of finance for CJCA and PbS Learning Institute; including all research and grant projects, membership services, national office operations, audit compliance, and the PbS Learning Institute. Jeanne Hickey was educated at Bentley College, Waltham, MA and has years of experience working with non-profit organizations.

Akin is currently employed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) as the Implementation Director of the Performance-based Standards (PbS) project for Youth Correction and Detention Facilities. Mr. Fadeyi provides guidance and assistance to new participating (candidacy) sites to implement the PbS standards, goals, expected practices and processes and to complete the project’s improvement cycle. He serves as a liaison between the consultants, the project team and sites; coordinates project expansion to new states/sites; and works with project teams to develop strategic plans for the integration of the standards as a management tool. In this capacity, Mr. Fadeyi has visited many juvenile facilities in several states around the country.

Prior to this appointment with CJCA, Mr. Fadeyi was a Consultant functioning as the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Juvenile Justice Services, Department of Human Services of the City of Philadelphia, PA. He was responsible for new program development and enhancement, and compliance with the City’s court consent decree on improvement at the detention center. He was Special Assistant at Youth Services Administration, Department of Human Services Washington, DC. Mr. Fadeyi assisted the Administrator in the overall management of the agency and compliance with the City’s court consent decree to effect improvement in the juvenile justice system. He has worked in several spheres of public management and administration both in the United States and Nigeria. Mr. Fadeyi has a Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) degree and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Public Administration and Political Science from Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Brendan Donahue is employed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) as an Information Technology Coordinator and also assists in the Performance-based Standards (PbS) and Community-based (CbS) projects. Brendan has a great amount of experience working in freelance website design and systems administration. He brings over four years of technical experience and skills to CJCA. Brendan has an Associates Degree from Quincy College in Business Administration.

Brian McHugh is employed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators as a Program Specialist for the Performance-based Standards (PbS) and Community-based Standards (CbS) projects. Brian previously worked in the financial industry in a wide array of positions in the communications division before leaving the industry to work for a community residential program within the North American Family Institute. Brian also brings experience working with adolescents referred from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health as well as the Department of Children and Families. Brian holds a bachelors degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts at Boston