The Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, an effort begun by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 1992 to reduce racial disparities in and the inappropriate use of detention, has helped bring about lasting reductions in both juvenile incarceration and crime, a report from the foundation finds. Drawing on data from 2008 through 2016, the report, JDAI at 25: Insights From the Annual Results Reports (21 pages, PDF), found that in communities where JDAI was implemented, the collective number of days juveniles spent in detention fell by 1.4 million, the overall annual admissions count declined by 49 percent, and documented juvenile crime fell, on average, by more than 40 percent. The report also found that challenges remain, including the persistence of racial and ethnic disparities in incarceration rates. Indeed, among the one hundred and forty JDAI sites in 2016, youth of color accounted for 52 percent of the youth population but 80 percent of the average daily population (ADP) in juvenile detention. With some JDAI sites seeing a flagging of momentum on the detention reform front and one in six seeing ADP trend upward, the report calls for a reexamination of the racial and ethnic inequities driving those trends.