{"id":474541,"date":"2010-03-26T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/rights-children-lets-starts-juvenile-delinquents-end-your-child-41406\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:33:11","slug":"rights-of-children-lets-starts-with-juvenile-delinquents-and-end-with-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474541","title":{"rendered":"Rights of Children &#8211; Let&#8217;s Starts with Juvenile Delinquents and End with Your Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.25.10 04:55 PM posted by Veronica Estrada<\/p>\n<p>Coming down the pipe in Texas&#8217;s capitol city of Austin is an effort by the City&#8217;s Human Rights Commission to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.590klbj.com\/News\/Story.aspx?ID=1209634\" >establish a Teen Court<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court system for youth in Travis County may not be operating in the best interest of those who find themselves caught up in it. The Austin Human Rights Commission is calling for city, county and school leaders to create an integrated youth court to deal with teens going through the legal system. Commission Chair Lisa Scheps says right now, the youth deal with six different court systems that have more than 25 judges. Scheps says now the teens just wind up back behind bars without ever breaking the cycle.  <\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the existence of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us\/children\/about.asp\" >Permanent Judicial Commission For Children, Youth &amp; Families<\/a> established by the Supreme Court of Texas to &quot;develop, implement, and coordinate policy initiatives designed to improve courts and court practice&quot; through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us\/children\/pdf\/ProceduralGuidelines.PDF\" >procedural guidelines<\/a>:   <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>develop a strategic plan for strengthening courts and court practice in the child protection system;<\/li>\n<li>identify and assess current and future needs for the courts to be more effective in achieving child-welfare outcomes of safety, permanency, well-being, fairness and due process;<\/li>\n<li>promote best practices and programs that are data-driven, evidence-based and outcome-focused;<\/li>\n<li>improve collaboration and communication among courts, the Department of Family and Protective Services, attorneys, and partners in the child-protection community;<\/li>\n<li>endeavor to increase resources and funding needed for improvement and maximize the wise and efficient use of available resources;<\/li>\n<li>promote adequate and appropiate training for all participants in the child protecxtion system;<\/li>\n<li>institutionalize a collaborative model that will continue systemic improvement beyond the tenure of individual Commission members;<\/li>\n<li>oversee the administration of designated funds, including the Court Improvement Program grants; and<\/li>\n<li>provide an annual progress report to the Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of this writing, there is no recent comment by the Austin Human Rights Commission regarding the effectiveness of the Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth and Families.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/rights_children_lets_starts_juvenile_delinquents_and_end_your_child\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/rights_children_lets_starts_juvenile_delinquents_and_end_your_child\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/r&#8230;end_your_child<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.25.10 04:55 PM posted by Veronica Estrada Coming down the pipe in Texas&#8217;s capitol city of Austin is an effort by the City&#8217;s Human Rights Commission to establish a Teen Court: The court system for youth in Travis County may not be operating in the best interest of those who find themselves caught up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}