Sentences with phrase «making juvenile justice systems»

Although well - validated psychotherapies have been developed for children with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), these therapies have limited applicability in juvenile justice context because they have not been tested in this context and do not address the larger issue of making juvenile justice systems trauma - informed.

Not exact matches

«We share the concerns of community members, law enforcement officials and youth facility staff that current policies at the Office of Child and Family Services, including the closure of 14 youth facilities, are making a bad situation worse in the juvenile justice system,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue.

«My brain was not fully developed enough to understand the potential consequences of some of the decisions I was making,» said St. Germaine, who said he «fortunately» was arrested four months before his 16th birthday and was sent to the juvenile justice system.

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We cant just make a new juvenile justice system in September.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

A mismatch in the definition of foster youth between the California Department of Education and Department of Social Services as well as the failure to track foster youth who become involved in the juvenile justice system are making it difficult to determine the number of foster youth students in each district.

«It made clear that when a child is suspended or expelled from school, their risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system goes up, as does their likelihood of dropping out of school, and repeating a year.»

Both Oddone and Yeates worked in the juvenile justice system and wanted to make a difference in the lives of children who needed it most.

In a culture in which men are from Mars and women are from Venus, it is tempting to leap straight to the conclusion that if the juvenile justice system is now dealing with a sizable proportion of female offenders, then something must be done to make the system more responsive to their presumably gender - specific needs.

This approach presupposes that one theory, model, or program can be used to understand and respond to the needs of all young women in the juvenile justice system.109 The prevalence of such one - size - fits - all approaches to female offenders may, in fact, explain why little progress has been made on understanding the etiology of female offending.

Within juvenile justice, family engagement occurs when the justice system respects family members as partners and facilitates their ongoing participation in decision - making regarding the youth's rehabilitation.

The organisation has recently been working to raise awareness of the mental health effects of racism on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with their Invisible Discriminator campaign, but has made no public comment about the allegations of abuse on the NT juvenile justice system or the need for a Royal Commission.

[106] These reports make numerous recommendations aimed at redressing the underlying causes of Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, juvenile justice and care and protection systems.