Improving Police-Youth Interactions

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Improving Police-Youth Interactions Summary To accomplish its mission of improving police-youth interactions, SFY engages in three core activities: Educating the law-enforcement community with multidisciplinary training in cutting-edge, effective youth interaction strategies aimed at expanding policing tactics beyond arrest; Educating youth and their communities about how to engage and interact effectively with police officers to promote public safety and youths’ best interests; and developing resources and tools to promote a youth development approach with law enforcement officers and police department practices. When developing mentally is based on the reason for doing or saying something adolescents and youth will go through sequential stages of never-based and mental development are very …show more content…
Children's and teens’ responses differ from those of adults because of basic neurobiological factors and related developmental stages of maturing.

Analysis So why aren’t we equipping all police with best practices for working with youth? Police recruit academy curriculums nation-wide should include information about what makes teens push limits, defy authority, and misjudge when to turn left into oncoming traffic. Why isn’t this available for in-service trainings? Training First Responders to Work with Youth Lisa Thurau founded Strategies for Youth to address this very issue. By educating our youth and adolescents it gives them the opportunity to use their minds in ways such as becoming doctors, lawyers, astronauts and even judges. By using their brain, it will allow them to function as more beneficial adults to our ever-changing society and world. With more education it can open doors for the youth