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| Families: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice |
| By /jjie.org - Grace Bauer |
| Published: 06/13/2013 |
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Grace Bauer headshotIn 2006, the mother of a teenage daughter involved in the juvenile justice system in Hawaii contacted a small, non-profit in Lake Charles, La., more than 4,000 miles away. The mother was seeking support from someone who could understand her plight in navigating the juvenile justice system and possibly help her find the treatment and services her daughter desperately needed. Her search, to find someone who had experienced the same challenges, took months of calls, letters, emails and Internet searches. Her efforts and lack of response left her hopeless. Fast-forward seven years. On the morning of May 5, 2013 I received three email messages from Atlanta, New Orleans, Louisiana and Houston, Texas. All three emails contained the same plea for help from a mother in Minnesota. Like the mother before her and the hundreds in the years between the two, she was searching for someone she could trust to figure out how to help her son who was involved in the juvenile justice system because of a truancy charge. Read More. |
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