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Councilmember Stevens addresses impact of Raise the Age legislation on program access
1:03:05
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Councilmember Althea Stevens discusses the impact of the Raise the Age legislation on program access across different courts. She emphasizes the need to address the issue of youth losing access to certain programs when transferred between courts.
- Stevens highlights that this issue has not been adequately addressed since the implementation of Raise the Age
- She stresses the importance of solving the problem of program continuity for youth moving between different court systems
- Stevens suggests that well-designed programs can accommodate various age brackets effectively
Althea Stevens
1:03:05
So I mean obviously we need to solve to make sure, one, we should be having programs that prevent them, but don't get me started, that's another fight.
1:03:13
I'll have that fight when I have my hearing in a couple weeks with Keith and DYCD because we should be preventing, but I am hearing that we do have a lack of programs but we also need to solve for this issue around what raise the age in the different courts.
1:03:27
When they're in different courts, they do not have access to certain programs and if they're in a program and then they get transferred to another court, they can no longer be in that program and this is something that I'm hearing a lot from providers and I definitely think that this is something we have to solve for because with raise the age, this has not been addressed and that prop right now, they're saying that's a bigger issue than the younger age because programs and if you're good and everyone knows I've been in program for years, so I can stop saying it at this point, but if you have a good program and you're a program director, age sometimes does not matter because you're going to set it up to hit all the age brackets and the folks that you do because it's you have distinct lesson plans.
1:04:05
So that is to me is an issue that we can solve for next, but the issue that I'm hearing is with the different courts.
1:04:11
Definitely would love to keep talking about that.
Jasmine Georges-Yilla
1:04:13
I will
Juanita Holmes
1:04:14
look into that.
1:04:15
I do have a director of programs here with us.
1:04:19
Is that something you want to speak to that you've been hearing from the providers?
1:04:21
She's more intimate with them and meeting with them on a regular basis.
Deldreana E. Peterkin
1:04:26
Yes.