Public Health Approach to Justice - KEY TAKEAWAYS - KEY EXAMPLES

They changed the culture and ethos from • Third sector particularly important: trusted by excluding (suspending/expelling) children from schools families and a bridge to statutory services to emphasizing “nurture”, understanding the child, the There is a global trend toward nurture and well-being, reasons for its behavior, and the family’s context. [...] community groups, and the third sector • Well-being is particularly important as children • Equips children with knowledge, language, and recover from lost structure during pandemic tools to manage their emotions in school and the o Build resilience, emotional literacy, and open community conversation in curriculum o 50% reduction in youth crime • Different challenges and demographics require loca. [...] to take a victim approach • Data must be reviewed for efficacy, used to raise • Taking an asset-based approach to nurture questions, and shared openly o Adverse childhood experiences can be assets • Efforts that fail in the local context should be after recovery; sources of resilience abandoned, even if effective elsewhere • Giving young people the voice and respect they • Must be relentless and d. [...] To change culture, adults in positions of power— • Can be challenging adjustment for educators teachers, administrators, police officers—need to be accustomed to instructing children trained and challenged on their biases, conscious or • Common language is also practical component of unconscious. [...] effective interagency collaboration • Biases or blind spots can be ethnic, sectarian, or power-based KEY EXAMPLES o Must be confronted and prevented from • UK (Drive program on domestic violence) affecting children’s outcomes o May result from dissimilar backgrounds; RECOMMENDED RESOURCES training and conversation can help • “Improving educational outcomes through getting it • For police, who also.