Strategies for Youth  

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Welcome to Strategies for Youth

Have your officers got their “strategies for youth” on? If not, you might want to start developing them with the services of Strategies for Youth.

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, your department may want to develop its strategies for youth:

  • Concerned about liability?
  • Do you police a large youth population?
  • Is your department committed to community policing?
  • Has your Department received any complaints about officers’ conduct towards youth in the last year?
  • Want to get a handle on your Department’s youth services and use of juvenile detention?

Strategies for Youth is 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 developing leadership in police departments, Strategies for Youth aims to reframe what is too often an adversarial approach to police/youth relations. 

  • SFY police trainings for police departments and school resource officers, focus on strategies to de-escalate violence in interactions with youth, increase youth-focused practices based on cutting edge psychological research, and support relationship-building in police departments and schools through increased integration with community-based programming.
  • SFY Technical Assistance for departments to examine their approach to policing teens and consider new approaches to deployment and interactions with teens on the streets and in schools.
  • SFY youth trainings called Juvenile Justice Jeopardy™ focus on making youth aware of how police are likely to approach them, how to behave during pat frisks and searches, and how to interact with officers in a manner to avoid escalation of interactions.
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Police Recruits Learn Youth Service Providers

Police Recruits Learn Youth Service Providers

Multnomah County is often on the cutting edge of innovation for juvenile detention reform. Innovations in training the city's police force to work with youth is another example of out-of-the-box thinking.

Multnomah’s internship for police recruits, called the "Community Academy," focuses on youth and juvenile justice, as well as its case processing agreement, all make it a national standout. And that’s only part of the story: Multnomah’s success in reducing the number of youth referred to formal processing and detention distinguish Multnomah County’s approach to policing and working with at risk youth in the nation...

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