Strategies for Youth | Improving the interactions between police and youth  

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Welcome to Strategies for Youth

Have your officers got their “strategies for youth” on?

Your department may want to develop its strategies for youth and ensure officers have the developmental competence they need to work with youth.

Strategies for Youth offers services that:

  • Improve police/youth interactions
  • Build community support of police
  • Promote Risk Management
  • Increase Efficient use of law enforcement resources.

Strategies for Youth is an advocacy and training organization dedicated to improving the interactions between police and youth by increasing the approach, options, and responses of police to youth. Through training that integrates developmental and psychiatric practices and cutting edge research, and by developing leadership in police departments, Strategies for Youth aims to reframe what is too often an adversarial approach to police/youth relations. 

  • SFY youth trainings called Juvenile Justice Jeopardy™ focus on teaching youth how to interact with police.
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HOW TO?...

Have an Effective Conversation with Youth about Your Police Department’s Practices
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Avoid the Failures of “Scared Straight” Programs
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Explain Death to Children
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Recognize a Sexually Exploited Youth
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WATCH Juvenile Justice Jeopardy video!

Latest Blog:
Why Police Need to Understand Trauma

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Featured Practice
of the Month!

Leap of Faith: Leveraging Teen Mediation

Youth of Promise Mentoring: Powerful Support for Struggling Tweens and Teens

What do you do with failing, out-of-control 11-14 year olds headed for the juvenile justice system? You pair them up with police officers and fire fighters – for mentoring.
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