At Risk Behavior

Ideas from Community

• Arrange for kids to hear victims’ stories in school
• Deal with children with lots of time and money
• Diminish drugs, unplanned pregnancies, alcohol
• Grow out restorative justice Youth Justice Initiative into school/community
• Increase at-risk programming at upper elementary and junior high
• Need to teach victim awareness
• Need more control and consequences
• Need quality drug and alcohol preventive information

Concerns from Community

• Underage drinking, drug use
• Bullying, harassment
• Crime, fist fighting, indications of gang influence, juvenile delinquency
• Stereotyping, leaving out
• Youth disconnected at early age
• Parents, police and teachers oblivious to extent of substance use
• Smoking
• Pregnancy
• Parents providing alcohol at teen parties
• Drinking & dangerous driving
• Drinking viewed as socially acceptable by parents/media/society
• Misuse of prescribed medicine
• Second-hand smoke
• We keep issue of substance abuse hidden