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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Featured Practice
of the Month!

C.C.P.D. SRO Kenneth Cameron utilizing our Notice of Offense protocol with one of his students at Love Joy High School

Changing the Playbook for Police in Schools
Clayton County, GA.

Something had to give.

The courts were paralyzed by the influx of youth arrested in the schools. The police could not keep up with the paperwork demands of all the arrests, much less the court time or the time out of the schools. Youth were dropping out of school at record rates.  Youth advocates were up in arms over so many youth missing so much class time waiting in court. Everyone was angry.

And something gave.

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