A Timely Report: National Human Services Assembly’s Roadmap for Reforming Youth Justice
July 2, 2020By Jeff Fleischer, CEO of Youth Advocate Programs and National Human Services Assembly Board Chair
The National Human Services Assembly (NHSA), in light of the George Floyd killing and the Covid 19 pandemic, is re-releasing our 2017 publication Beyond Bars: Keeping Young People Safe at Home and Out of Youth Prisons, a roadmap for reform that calls on state and local policymakers, juvenile justice administrators, police and judges to end the practice of youth incarceration and instead invest in community-based alternatives. This report is more relevant today, than ever before, as policy makers and legislatures are looking to develop alternatives to policing, probation, youth detention, youth prison and parole. Read more via The Neighborhood Advocate.