CCLP: Data shows diversion works. We need to create more opportunities to divert kids directly to programs and services w/o justice system contact.
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Create a presumption of community-based responses for most youth, limiting the use of commitment and out-of-home placement. Develop placements that could better address the needs of the small number of youth requiring an out-of-home placement.
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Eliminate mandatory length of stay requirements and create length of stay guidelines for youth in placement that are aligned with research, best practices, and considerations of victims. Create a process for judicial review of commitments and out-of-home placements.
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Train judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other juvenile justice personnel on adolescent development, research on effective interventions with youth, and the harms associated with out-of-home placement
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Reassign responsibility for youth justice to a new agency or different child-serving agency
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Do NOT co-locate youth and women at LC. This would limit youth access to programming recreation, etc. Other states don’t do this. (**This is significant because Maine is currently considering moving a number of women prisoners to LC.**)
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CCLP: “All of this *can and should* be done while Maine invests in creating community-based continuums of care and implements other recommendations.”
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