How can legislators help promote the juvenile justice system reform efforts now being considered?
The most effective approach to meet the needs of trouble youth and ensure safe communities is to keep youth in their communities where there is family involvement, access to ongoing services and less disruption in the child and family structure. Q: How can the legislature expand community-based services to keep children out of institutions? For more information, contact: Paul Kelly, AACF Senior Policy Analyst at 501-371-9678 Ext 102. Support for this report was provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. We thank the foundation for its support but acknowledge that the findings and the conclusions presented in this report are those of the authors alone, and do not necessarily relfect the opinion of the foundation. The Arkansas Kids Count Coalition is a project of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. It works to promote, protect and unify the interests of the children and families of Arkansas. The mission of AACF is to ensure that all children and their families have the resource
