Sentences with phrase «affecting juvenile justice»

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Some civil rights groups have contended that there is a need for additional regulations to clarify how the law — including the most relevant provision (Title 1, Part D)-- affects students with juvenile justice experience.

It's easy to say that when young people enter the juvenile justice system, it negatively affects their education.

Advocacy groups, researchers, and public policy experts believe that the juvenile justice system has become the only alternative for many poor and minority youth with psychiatric disorders.88 - 92 Many states have imposed more severe sanctions for delinquent youth and transfer increasing numbers of juveniles to adult court,93 - 95 policies that disproportionately affect minority youth.94, 96 In addition, 2 recent changes in public health policy may have inadvertently contributed to the criminalization of youth with mental disorders.

recognize that the problems affecting Aboriginal juveniles are so widespread and have such potentially disastrous repercussions for the future that there is an urgent need for governments and Aboriginal organizations to negotiate together to devise strategies designed to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are involved in the welfare and criminal justice systems, and, in particular, to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are separated from their families or communities, whether by being declared to be in need of care, detained, imprisoned or otherwise.

The Federal Attorney General's Department provided funding to undertake a short research project examining the issues affecting Indigenous young people with a cognitive disability and / or mental health issue in the juvenile justice system.

Anderson, who is chair of the Lowitja Institute, issued a strong appeal to the Royal Commission that its inquiry into abuse of Aboriginal young people in juvenile justice does not result in a report that gets shelved like so many vital investigations into issues affecting Indigenous people in Australia.

The report also recommends the Commonwealth Government establish a national inquiry into child protection laws and processes affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, recognising the links between out - of - home care, juvenile justice and adult incarceration.

Trauma Affect Regulation / Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET): A case study moving toward trauma - informed juvenile justice systems.

This article describes a new model, TARGET (Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy), that was developed and has been tested with justice - involved youth, and that has been disseminated in several state - wide juvenile justice systems.

Trauma Affect Regulation / Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET): A Case Study of Moving Toward Trauma - Informed Juvenile Justice Systems