Workforce readiness
Career interests, resumes, interview preparation, and professional communication that connect to planning for work.
DJS Solutions · NextGen in juvenile services
Economic mobility
starts before reentry.
A young person’s next chapter needs practical tools. DJS Solutions brings NextGen into juvenile-services settings through an adaptable pathway built around work, money, enterprise, and goals for life after release.
Bring NextGen to Your FacilityA connected approach
Preparation.
Direction.
Possibility.
Skills for the future can begin in the present.
Four pillars
A practical foundation
for the next step.
Entrepreneurial thinking works alongside career preparation and personal goals. Each pillar gives young people another way to imagine and plan a path forward.
Financial capability
Budgeting, banking, and money-management concepts made relevant to everyday decisions and future goals.
Entrepreneurship
Recognizing problems, developing solutions, and practicing how to explain and build a business idea.
Reentry-focused goal-setting
Connecting personal ambitions to concrete next steps for life, work, and contribution after release.
Documented workshop evidence · Maryland DJS · 2026
What the feedback
tells us.
These results come from 13 anonymous youth exit cards and one independent staff evaluation of a single 2026 Maryland DJS workshop. They describe that workshop, not outcomes across facilities or the entire program.
78 / 78
Recorded youth outcome ratings
Every recorded rating was Agree or Strongly Agree.
10 / 10
Wanted more NextGen
Among the youth who answered this question.
5 / 5
Staff recommendation score
From the independent staff evaluator.
6 / 8
Quality dimensions rated 5/5
The other two dimensions were rated 4/5.
The 78 figure counts individual outcome ratings recorded across the exit cards; it is not a count of 78 young people. Feedback is workshop-level evidence and does not establish long-term employment, financial, or reentry outcomes.
Independent staff perspective
A direction
for continued work.
The evaluator recommended continuing NextGen at the facility, expanding to additional facilities, connecting the experience to workforce planning, and developing a longer-term or recurring format.
Partnership conversation
What could a recurring pathway look like in your facility?
Let’s discuss your setting, the young people you serve, and how the four pillars can support their next steps.