Strategies for Youth issues statements on decrees, policies and legislation. These are some of our statements.
President Trump’s call for the National Guard to control ‘roving mobs of wild youth’ threatens to undermine decades of progress in juvenile justice, endangering the lives of our young people and their families.
Statement of Strategies for Youth on the Response of Law Enforcement in the Uvalde, Texas School Shooting
A policy platform for the Biden/Harris administration from the National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition.
A statement from Lisa H. Thurau, on behalf of Strategies for Youth regarding Boston Public School Policy.
Strategies For Youth joined the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee and Citizens for Juvenile Justice in calling for the full implementation of the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2018 to make school districts and law enforcement more accountable to the students they serve.
Strategies for Youth issued a statement criticizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for not insuring police are guided by best practices and policies for working with youth and called for change, particularly in how law enforcement interacts with youth of color.
Strategies for Youth is a signatory on this Act 4 Juvenile Justice Coalition letter to the Senate and House leadership expressing deep opposition to the COVID-19 guidance for State Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities recently issued by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals incarcerated in and working at U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers face a public health crisis due to existing unsanitary and overcrowded conditions of confinement. Strategies for Youth is a signatory on this coalition letter to Congress urging provisions in the COVID-19 response package to protect, release, and support reentry of incarcerated people.
Strategies for Youth is a signatory on this Act 4 Juvenile Justice Coalition letter to Attorney General Barr urging his support to fully fund juvenile justice and deliquency prevention programs for fiscal year 2021.
Strategies for Youth endorses testimony by the MA Coalition for Juvenile Justice Reform in support of MA S.900/H.1386, which would revise the eligibility criteria for expungement of criminal records.
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