Juvenile Justice must protect youths and provide guidance, trauma healing, family supports, mentoring, and life skills

I will advocate for and help build a juvenile justice program that focuses on rigorous healing treatments of childhood developmental trauma in the youthful offender and generational trauma in the family of the youth offender, restorative and meaningful community volunteer work, matching youthful offenders with nurturing adult mentors and apprenticeships, matching youthful offenders with meaningful paid work programs that give back and build self-sufficiency (like organic farming, WOOFING, building homes with Habitat For Humanity, etc.), and educating youthful offenders in healthy communication and conflict resolution skills and the basic skills of money management, investing, and building wealth. This juvenile justice model should be the track for all youthful offenders under age 25 or 26 (when the pre-frontal cortex reaches adulthood).