Sentences with phrase «reduce youth incarceration»

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$ 22 million awarded to 30 programs — including Art for Incarcerated Youth Network, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and California Lawyers for the Arts — aimed at criminal justice reform and reducing mass incarceration

She is a board member for a transitional home for men trying to reintegrate into society after incarceration, and a member of the Toronto District School Board black student achievement advisory committee where she drafts policies to reduce drop - out rates among black high school students, as well as coaches soccer at the Burlington youth soccer club.

Skye Bullen, the Community Data Manager from the Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project in Bourke told the symposium how the Maranguka project uses a community - based participatory research approach to reduce the high rate of Aboriginal children and young people's offending, reoffending and incarceration in adult prison and youth detention.

While it is clearly critical that abusive individuals and systems in the NT are held to account, there are suggestions it will be a missed opportunity if the Royal Commission does not examine some of the wider issues, including the need to prevent and reduce incarceration of Indigenous youth in the first place.

Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 1809 / S.860): This legislation provides protections for juveniles and ensures that public dollars are invested in a continuum of trauma - informed care and alternatives to incarceration and detention as a way to help dismantle the school to prison pipeline, reduce crime, and improve youth outcomes.