... to give them the chance to develop into healthy productive adults" (Teitelman & Linhares 2013). This is a pilot program with four model locations being tested in Missouri. The main theme running through the "Eight Core Strategies" is collaboration between the attorneys, juvenile court, educators, and mental health administrators (Juvenile Detention Initiative 2013). They are implementing new methods of alternatives ... intervention from a concerned juvenile therapist, would she have been given a chance at a future? This is where the reform and improvement, which is ongoing, could also m...

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