California Efforts to Prevent and Deal with
Child
Abuse and Neglect and Juvenile Delinquency
with
Recommendations for Improvement
Table of Contents
From the Editors
From the President
League of Women Voters Juvenile Justice / Dependency
Position in Brief
Fostering a More Supportive Society
This section describes some ways in which
professionals and community members, working
together, have changed their programs, schools and
neighborhoods to be more supportive of children,
youth and their families.
- Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods
- How Do We Change Smaller Cities?
- Building Communities with Help from the Press
- Using Data to Strengthen Communities and Improve Services
- Forging the Essential Connections Between Schools and Work
- School-to-Work Update
- Young Men as Fathers
- Drug Prevention Education Conference
Addressing Issues Surrounding Child Abuse and
Neglect
This section gives an overview of many of the
issues involved in reducing child abuse and neglect,
and the responsibility of the state to care for
foster children and to prepare them for independence
when they reach adulthood. In this section also
are descriptions of some efforts at system reform and
some promising new programs.
- Little Hoover Commission Dependency Study
- Wraparound Services
- Health Care Issues
- Home Visiting
- Court Appointed Special Advocates
- Adoption Mediation
- Court Reform
- A Court Reform Effort Targeting
Parental Substance Abuse
Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency
The full LWVC Juvenile Justice/Dependency
position and the recommendations of the California
Task Force on Juvenile Crime and the Juvenile Justice
Response both emphasize the importance of efforts to
reduce juvenile delinquency through appropriate
services for young people and early intervention when
youngsters first break the law. Both sets of
recommendations support the coordination of these
efforts, as well as rehabilitation of the juvenile
offender and just treatment for all California's
young people.
- Juvenile Justice System
- Minorities in the Juvenile Justice System
- Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
- Balanced and Restorative Justice
- Preventing Juvenile Delinquency and Violence
What Can You Do?
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LWVC Webmaster Carol Watts
Contributing writers
Lisbeth B. Schorr • David Steinhart
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