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Importance of meaningful outcomes and accountability in youth programs
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Staten Island DA Michael McMahon emphasizes the need for meaningful outcomes and accountability in youth programs, particularly for those who come into contact with the criminal justice system.
- McMahon stresses the importance of follow-through and accountability in counseling and support programs
- He suggests implementing a system where youth report back to resource coordinators on their progress
- McMahon draws parallels to his approach with young people suffering from addiction, offering case dismissals upon completion of programs
- He argues that this level of accountability and support is missing in many Raise the Age cases
- Council Member Stevens expresses interest in working together to implement these ideas
Michael McMahon
6:54:19
Because with with meaningful outcomes, if someone does come into contact with the system, we wanna make sure that they find the programming and the support that they need to not have the same repeat, but also to have some accountability there just to make sure, okay, if you're gonna go to a counseling program, make sure that that's being done, to have follow through to make sure that that one contact is the only contact.
6:54:44
That's something that we can do what we do across the board.
6:54:48
I do it with young people suffering from addiction illness.
6:54:51
I give them a we dismiss those cases if they go for a thirty day program and at the end they get a certificate from me.
6:54:58
That's, I think, is missing in a lot of the raise the age cases, at least as far as I see it.
6:55:03
And that's where your advocacy to get that funding in place, to get those programs in place
Althea Stevens
6:55:07
We're gonna we're the advocacy.
Diana Ayala
6:55:09
We're gonna
Michael McMahon
6:55:09
advocate, but then you need resource coordinators in the court who can say, okay.
6:55:13
You're coming back in thirty days.
6:55:14
You're gonna tell the coordinator, did you go to those four meetings with the counselor?
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Did you go to the park cleanup?
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Whatever whatever is appropriate for you, did you do it?
6:55:23
And let's make sure that that gets done because I think then you'll see a bigger improvement and less people repeating in the system.
Althea Stevens
6:55:28
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