ABA Youth At Risk Initiative

ABA President Karen Mathis has launched a Youth At Risk Initiative. Issues to be addressed include:

• Promoting "meaningful involvement of teenagers in all hearings affecting them."
• "Reforming the juvenile 'status offender' process."
• "Improving how the law addresses system 'cross-over' youth" -- that is, teenagers who move from "dependency" (the foster care system) to "delinquency."

Thanks for the lead to Michele Storms.

Filed in: ABA, Mathis, youth, juvenile-adjudications, foster-care, Storms