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Family Voice in Juvenile Justice
By Lisa Lambert & Meri Viano
Family involvement is a key component to keeping youth in the community and doing better overall. In Massachusetts, the DYS Family Voice project supports, trains and engages parents whose children are involved in the juvenile justice system. Created through a partnership between a family-run organization and the Department of Youth Services, the Family Voice project is shifting the culture, often one person at a time, to seeing families in a strengths-based way as well as providing family voice from the ground up to strategy meetings.
