Carol Cramer Brooks
Senior Advisor / Staff and Program Development
Wilmington, North Carolina
Carol Cramer Brooks’ career in juvenile justice has spanned thirty plus years across the continuum of juvenile justice services. Currently, Ms. Cramer Brooks is an independent juvenile justice consultant with the Juvenile Justice Associates, LLC and the National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS). Her primary focus areas include providing training and technical assistance for staff and agencies in leadership, trainer and program development (confinement education, behavior management, and cognitive behavior training) as well as writing training curriculum for staff.
Ms. Cramer Brooks is the former Director of the OJJDP’s National Center for Youth in Custody (NCYC), a training and technical assistance center created to assist staff in juvenile detention, corrections and adult facilities serving youth and the past Chief Executive Officer of the NPJS.
Ms. Cramer Brooks has experience in detention (county operated, pre-adjudicated status) and corrections (state operated, post-adjudicated treatment) facilities, government grants, and detention education. She is the former Director of Program Development and Support Services for the State of Michigan’s Department of Human Services, Bureau of Juvenile Justice (BJJ). In this capacity she was responsible for the education, quality assurance, policy and resident assignment units for the BJJ. Prior to her position in state government, Ms. Cramer Brooks served as the principal of the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Schools in Kalamazoo Michigan, where she also was a special education teacher for sixteen years.
Ms. Cramer Brooks served as the Director of Training and Confinement Education for the National Juvenile Detention Association’s Center for Research and Professional Development at Michigan State University (CRPD). At CRPD, Ms. Cramer Brooks co-authored the “National Training Curriculum for Educators of Youth in Confinement” and the Detention Careworker Training Curriculum, 3rd Edition.