Lockdown drills aimed at preparing students to protect themselves from school shooters do more to stir kids’ anxiety than their sense of protection. #lockdown

Over 200 individual state and local juvenile corrections and probation agencies representing 37 states and over 190 counties reported that they are facing greater staffing difficulties than at any time in the past 10 years.

Juvenile justice systems across the country are experiencing an unprecedented staffing crisis, which jeopardizes the safety and well-being of employees in the system and the youth in their care, juvenile justice administrators and researchers say.

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In my second week at Crenshaw High School in South Los Angeles, as I passed two school police officers in the hallway, one of them said to me, ‘We know who you are. We know who you’re going to be.’

"What I can tell you is that there’s a lot of room for improvement. Raising kids, in any circumstance, requires us to be and bring our best selves" says @cal_oycr head Katherine Lucero.

"We try to get them on that bus to redemption, rather than on that bus to incarceration," says Gary Ivory, the first Black CEO of national social services/juvenile justice organization @YAPInc

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Washington state’s policies to prevent youth homelessness are considered among the best in the US. But even in WA, there's room for improvement, especially for youth who have been through the juvenile justice system and other state systems.

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“This epidemic has become such that we don’t have the luxury of thinking that whatever we’ve already done in terms of prevention is enough or safeguards our children from being exposed," one group home supervisor says. #fentanylawareness

When, at 19, he was sent to an Upstate New York prison, said Vidal Guzman Jr., corrections officers intermittently locked him in isolation, away from other prisoners and with limited time outside that cell. #NewYork

Behavioral health researchers, often, used to routinely dismiss using cultural rituals to help alter people’s actions, including as a tool to steer at-risk youth away from criminality. #NativeAmerican

Moving the most violent and troubled youths to adult prison makes it easier to help others in juvenile facilities, some prosecutors and lawmakers say. Youth justice advocates say Texas is giving up on the children who most need help. @TexasTribune #Texas

When, at 19, he was sent to an Upstate New York prison, said Vidal Guzman Jr., corrections officers intermittently locked him in isolation, away from other prisoners and with limited time outside that cell. #NewYork

Moving the most violent and troubled youths to adult prison makes it easier to help others in juvenile facilities, some prosecutors and lawmakers say. Youth justice advocates say Texas is giving up on the children who most need help. @TexasTribune #Texas

When, at 19, he was sent to an Upstate New York prison, said Vidal Guzman Jr., corrections officers intermittently locked him in isolation, away from other prisoners and with limited time outside that cell. #NewYork