A New Model of Mentorship Is Needed for Challenges Youth in Reentry Face [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 9/14/1612:00 PM

I want to discuss the challenges youth face when exiting a detention facility and propose a more developed way of thinking about this population. I hope that through reference to my personal story I can help community stakeholders identify different ways of providing effective service and provide a voice for the thousands of youth across America who are faced with similar obstacles.

I first made contact with the system when I was about 11 years old. I was picked up for vandalism when out of triggered anger and pain I broke a window of the group home I was living in. For the next decade, I was kept in the system for a range of offenses, then was committed to Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ).

[For more of this story, written by Deangelo Cortijo, go to http://jjie.org/a-new-model-of...reentry-face/309772/]

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