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Community-based Alternatives Dual Status Youth Evidence-based Practices Juvenile Indigent Defense Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders Racial & Ethnic Fairness Reentry Youth Gun Violence JJIE Hub Podcasts & Snapshots Jobs More Videos Magazines Bokeh Focus Instagram Bokeh Focus Photoblog Foster Care Substance Use Subscribe As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help By Julia Hotz, The Hechinger Report | May 9, 2024 Medical-legal partnerships work to address the problems that could be harming a student’s health. After ruling out stressors in Antonio’s family environment, a Yale legal team learned more about the challenges he was facing at school, including severe learning difficulties in the classroom and bullies outside of school. And though the clinicians did everything they could do to help address those behavioral health stressors on their own, they realized they needed another team member to help: a lawyer. By prescribing” legal support the same way they prescribe other kinds of medicine, health workers can see the benefits in their patients. After the legal team’s recommendations were implemented, his mother said, Finally, it’s like, he’s free. That was the Antonio I wanted to see all these years.” This teamwork comes through Yale Child Study Center’s Medical-Legal Partnership — a collaboration in which health and law professionals team up to address patients’ health-harming legal needs” from food and housing to public benefits and school supports. Their unique partnership functions as a kind of legal prescription. To treat a child’s behavioral health symptoms, clinicians and lawyers target the root cause, which can sometimes be a school environment where the child’s legally enshrined academic and emotional needs aren’t being met. Can this approach work in other communities? Mostly banned from adult courts, polygraphs also shouldn’t be used against juveniles In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court banned from courtroom evidence most results from lie-detector tests because those polygraph exams are scientifically flawed and unreliable, a ruling the American Psychological Association concurred with. However, in juvenile courts, where judges still have the discretion to allow or ban such so-called evidence, polygraphs have been used to coerce some juvenile sex offenders into making what researchers concluded were false confessions. The misuse doesn’t end there. Despite outcry over seclusion at juvenile detention centers, Tennessee lawmakers fail to pass oversight bill Children in Rutherford County, have been arrested and jailed at rates unparalleled in the state. This story reports on an investigation of why that is happening — and other ways the justice system there singles out children. A bill that would strengthen oversight of Tennessee’s juvenile detention centers has failed, despite a concerted push for reform after multiple county-run facilities were found to be locking children alone in cells. Q&A: This Colorado teacher survived Columbine. Here’s how she prioritizes trauma-informed practices. When Heather Martin was a senior in high school, she survived the 1999 Columbine High School shooting that killed 12 students and one teacher in Littleton, Colorado. Even as she tried to move on with her life, she carried the trauma of that day inside her — often in ways that surprised her. In junior college she struggled with panic attacks and an eating disorder. Eventually, Martin dropped out of college. Today, Martin is a high school English teacher who prioritizes making her students feel safe and giving them the tools to understand and cope with trauma. She’s also the executive director of The Rebels Project, a nonprofit that supports survivors of mass tragedy. More Headlines What happens when suspensions get suspended? The parents paying for their children’s crimes Many states don’t educate people sentenced to life. Now some are coming home. Amid clamor from protesters, Tennessee Senate passes bill to arm some teachers By Marta W. Aldrich, Chalkbeat Tennessee | April 11, 2024 Amid outbursts from gun control advocates in the spectator gallery, Tennessee’s GOP-dominated Senate passed a bill Tuesday to allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns in public schools. The vote was 26-5 vote along partisan lines. Lt. Gov. McNally ordered the gallery cleared after issuing several warnings to protestors before the vote, but many refused to leave, despite the urging of state troopers and warnings that they could be arrested. Breaking walls, building bridges: A call for restorative justice in school discipline By Jully Myrthil, The Hechinger Report | April 9, 2024 Imagine waking up each morning with no hope for the day ahead, navigating a minefield of potential conflicts with your body on high alert. That was my reality as a marginalized youth — misunderstood, labeled as a troublemaker and cast out without a chance to reconcile and evolve. Growing up with anxiety in school is an all-too-common experience that perpetuates a cycle of fear and resentment. It’s time to acknowledge and address this narrative that adversely affects our youth’s learning experiences and the education system. Restorative justice programs are part of the solution. Report: America’s growing movement to divert youth out of the justice system By Nickolas Bagley | March 28, 2024 After decades of neglect, the youth justice field is awakening to the importance of diversion in lieu of arrest and formal court processing for many or most youth accused of delinquent behavior. For a handful of lawyers in Cuyahoga County, juvenile cases are big business By Doug Livingston and Rachel Dissell, The Marshall Project | March 25, 2024 The juvenile court system is supposed to ensure that young people accused of crimes have legal representation, even if their families can’t afford a lawyer. But in Cuyahoga County, some courtrooms resemble hiring halls for favored attorneys who get hundreds of assignments yearly, while others get none. Tennessee lawmakers want more oversight of juvenile detention. The Department of Children’s Services is pushing back. By Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio | March 20, 2024 The commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services publicly said this month that the agency was working with lawmakers to address oversight gaps at juvenile detention facilities across the state. But behind the...