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| Community Connections for Youth wants to help kids re-enter community life |
| By nydailynews.com - Corinne Lestch |
| Published: 07/26/2012 |
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NY -- When Demetria Frampton’s grandson was caught in a fight with older boys at New Explorers High School in Concourse Village in September, some of the youth involved were immediately arrested. But because her freshman grandson was only 15 years old, he was diverted to a burgeoning South Bronx non-profit called Community Connections for Youth (CCFY), started in 2009. “I’m a big advocate for keeping kids out of the system,” said Frampton, a retired Department of Corrections employee. “(My grandson) works out of Brook Park and has a mentor. I’ve seen a change in his attitude.” On Wednesday, members from CCFY were joined by a city Department of Probation deputy commissioner and a John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor to discuss ways the community can support dozens of youth slated to leave upstate detention facilities under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Close to Home” initiative. “Shipping kids upstate at a cost of $270,000 a year has been an abject failure,” said Ruben Austria, executive director of CCFY, at the Mott Haven Public Library. “We outsource the responsiblity for kids getting in trouble to law enforcement or probation or jails.” Austria noted that adolescents and teenagers who are sent to standard court-mandated programs - for crimes like fighting in school and robbery - often lapse into trouble again. Read More. |
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