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Seven teens loitered in a San Francisco park, and before long two police officers shuffled over and started grilling them. “Get over here,” a female officer yelled. “Sit your ass down.” Five of the kids stared at the officer with wide eyes and promptly planted themselves on the ground. Two

San Francisco police are attending a "Policing the Teen Brain" train-the-trainer session this week to prepare to train officers on improving their interactions with the city's youth.

Lisa Thurau was a guest on the Kansas City, MO "Central Standard" show with host Michele Tyrene-Johnson, talking about profiling by proxy. For people of color and other minority groups being wrongfully reported to the police can be a real concern. "The Dangers of Profiling by Proxy." is Segment 2

Fourteen Wayne County law enforcement officers last week completed two days of Policing the Teen Brain training.

Teenagers are indeed different from adults. They think differently. Their emotions drive them differently. They act differently.

Steuben County youth authorities and advocates have another tool in their tool box: Juvenile Justice Jeopardy.

“Systems change approaches” have become a mantra of the social sector. Communities feel the frustration with being “resource-rich and coordination-poor.” But what does taking a systems approach look like in action? How can communities move beyond programs to influence attitudes and beliefs, improve coordination, and change policy? (Strategies for Youth's

Who is Henry Lemus Calderon — a gang member or a choir boy? His friends and family on Nantucket insist that he is not gang-affiliated, but the youth who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied has been swept up in an ICE dragnet on the summer resort island.

"I started Strategies for Youth, after seeing how effective training police can be in reducing arrests for low level juvenile offenses."

Trauma comes in many shapes and sizes. It’s not always obvious – and comes from things like emotional abuse and the circumstances behind the problems. Often the best way to understand those who are different from us is to get to know them.

At the statehouse, several experts are advocating for more funding for School Resource Officers, or SROs.

A free program hosted by the National Basketball Association’s alumni organization is coming to Louisville, giving kids a chance to learn basketball and life tips from former NBA pros.

As the debate over accountability in the 2014 fatal police shooting of Tamir Rice roils on, child advocates hold hope that the most lasting change to come after the 12-year-old's death is that Cleveland ends up with one of the country's most progressive policies for how police interact with children.

Even after questionable killings of young black men in Cleveland, Ohio, Ferguson, Mo. and most recently, Houston, Texas, states have done little to establish uniform standards of conduct guiding police interaction with youth. That's according to a new national report that was released this week by Cambridge-based Strategies for Youth.

States play almost no role in setting standards for the way law enforcement agencies interact with young people, according to a nationwide survey released May 31. The lack of such standards represents a “missed opportunity” for helping youth avoid the harmful lifetime consequences of involvement with the justice system, according

Let the punch flow far and wide: the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Inter-Site Conference is back! JDAI is the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s efforts to reduce the use of pretrial detention in the juvenile justice system. This is the 25th anniversary of the year that former boss Bart Lubow

Technology has grown so fast that most of us can’t keep up. Suddenly, it’s easier to text, tweet or “like” than talk, yet the absence of human contact and interpersonal relationships leave out a basic psychological need – the need to communicate face-to-face. Police are not immune to this reality