CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES, April 30, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Strategies for Youth (SFY) announced Thursday its Policing the Teen Brain (PTB) program earned recertification from the nationally recognized International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST).
Founded in Massachusetts in 2010, SFY is the national nonprofit policy and training organization that works across the spectrum of professionals in law enforcement and youth advocacy.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – January 27, 2025 – Celebrating advocate and law enforcement leaders making a difference in the youth justice system, Strategies for Youth (SFY), the national policy and training organization dedicated to improving interactions between law enforcement and youth, announced Tuesday the honorees of the organization’s inaugural awards ceremony.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – June 10, 2025 – Massachusetts must stop allowing officers to use deceit and deception during interrogations of youths by passing H.1979/S.1065, “An Act Prohibiting Deception in Juvenile Interrogations,” Cambridge-based nonprofit Strategies for Youth (SFY) declared in written testimony to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – August 12, 2025 – The children of Washington, DC, deserve better.
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.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – JUNE 26, 2025 – A meaningful step forward in the pursuit of safer interactions between police and youth, Strategies for Youth (SFY) applauds Thursday’s release of the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission’s first-in-the-nation draft Juvenile Operations Standards for certification of law enforcement agencies.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – June 10, 2025 – Massachusetts must stop allowing officers to use deceit and deception during interrogations of youths by passing H.1979/S.1065, “An Act Prohibiting Deception in Juvenile Interrogations,” Cambridge-based nonprofit Strategies for Youth (SFY) declared in written testimony to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — APRIL 10, 2025 — The police shooting of 17-year-old Victor Perez in Idaho this week underscores an urgent need for nationwide action to train and set policies for law enforcement’s interactions with young people, national policy and training organization Strategies for Youth said in a statement Thursday.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – March 27, 2025 – To protect children’s futures, the Arkansas Legislature should support Bill 459 and raise the minimum age of child involvement in the juvenile justice system from 9 to 10 years old, Strategies for Youth Executive Director Lisa Thurau urged in a letter to state legislators.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – March 20, 2025 – The Nebraska Legislature should soundly reject lowering the age that children could be tried as adults from 14 to 11, Strategies for Youth Executive Director Lisa Thurau declared in a letter to legislators Wednesday.
CAMBRIDGE, MA, UNITED STATES, February 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — As Massachusetts prepares to lead the nation by unveiling the first statewide regulations on police interactions with youth, dozens of parents, advocates, and former law enforcement officers came together virtually this week to sound off on how those standards should take shape.