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| Youth system praised |
| By St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| Published: 09/10/2008 |
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MISSOURI - Missouri's system for rehabilitating delinquent youths has been singled out again as a national model, this time being honored as "the guiding light for reform in juvenile justice" by a leading child advocacy group. On Tuesday, the Annie E. Casey Foundation gave the Missouri Division of Youth Services its 2008 Innovations Award in Children and Family System Reform. The award, administered by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, comes with $100,000 to be used to train other states to mimic Missouri's programs. Dubbed the "Missouri Model," the state's youth corrections system is known for focusing on rehabilitation, rather than punishment. In recent years, multiple states have sent officials to tour Missouri's youth facilities. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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