Tagged With "juvenile justice"

https://www.local10.com/news/m...ns_20151127193144631 Has murder become the norm in our society? Every day, you turn on the news to see who else got killed. I had to disconnect my cable TV because I just got so sick and tired of watching homicide news every day and see no change in our country's policies. No kid is born to become a murderer. Yet, our society somehow does a great job turning them into monsters. How? Liberty and freedom for all! Oh, really? Then why is the U.S. incarceration...

In 2019, more than $40 million will become available to fund community-based, culturally rooted, trauma-informed services for youth in California as alternatives to arrest and incarceration. Thousands of California youth are arrested every year for low-level offenses. Youth who are arrested or incarcerated for low-level offenses are less likely to graduate high school, more likely to suffer negative health-outcomes, and more likely to have later contact with the justice system.

I was hoping for an article that would address children adopted from foster care, children with significant trauma backgrounds, now intelligent and healthy adoptive parents who beg for help. Where are resources for significantly mentally ill children?

Here is a post with an article in NM Politics discussing this very issue. https://www.pacesconnection.com/...of-effects-of-damage

Kaci, Go to this web site. Register. https://www.attachmenttraumanetwork.org/ ATN is a non-profit organization that was started by the mothers of adopted children with severe disabilities (some of these children came from orphanages from overseas). When neither parents nor teachers could give answers as to what to do with these kids, their mothers went back to school and started their own research looking for any information possible how to help their children. They started their own chat...

https://www.attachmenttraumanetwork.org/ https://www.attachmenttraumanetwork.org/ Everyone who deals with childhood trauma needs to know this resource. ATN is a non-profit organization that was started by the mothers of adopted children with severe disabilities (some of these children came from orphanages from overseas). When neither parents nor teachers could give answers as to what to do with these kids, their mothers went back to school and started their own research looking for any...

Thanks, Robbyn! Great post! Sharing it on FB.