Strategies for Youth
@strategiesforyouth.bsky.social
Nonprofit policy and training organization dedicated to improving police-youth interactions and reducing disproportionate minority contact
@strategiesforyouth continues to face the challenges of the moment head-on.
Next week in Boston, Executive Director Lisa Thurau will speak on a panel at Social Innovation Forum’s Rising to the Challenge: Why Supporting Policy and Advocacy is Critical Now Conference.
Next week in Boston, Executive Director Lisa Thurau will speak on a panel at Social Innovation Forum’s Rising to the Challenge: Why Supporting Policy and Advocacy is Critical Now Conference.
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@strategiesforyouth continues to face the challenges of the moment head-on.
Next week in Boston, Executive Director Lisa Thurau will speak on a panel at Social Innovation Forum’s Rising to the Challenge: Why Supporting Policy and Advocacy is Critical Now Conference.
Next week in Boston, Executive Director Lisa Thurau will speak on a panel at Social Innovation Forum’s Rising to the Challenge: Why Supporting Policy and Advocacy is Critical Now Conference.
Together, we’re making a difference in communities nationwide – one game at a time. Pictured here is our work this week with Kidz Konnect, a violence prevention program at the Old Colony YMCA in Brockton, Mass.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Together, we’re making a difference in communities nationwide – one game at a time. Pictured here is our work this week with Kidz Konnect, a violence prevention program at the Old Colony YMCA in Brockton, Mass.
With military deployment to Americans cities underway, Strategies for Youth Board Co-Chair Geordie McClelland writes in @newsweek.com about the impact that these policies will have on young people 🔗↘️
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
Stop Treating Youth With Militarized Suspicion | Opinion
Do kids belong in adult court?
www.newsweek.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
With military deployment to Americans cities underway, Strategies for Youth Board Co-Chair Geordie McClelland writes in @newsweek.com about the impact that these policies will have on young people 🔗↘️
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
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With military deployment to Americans cities underway, Strategies for Youth Board Co-Chair Geordie McClelland writes in @newsweek.com about the impact that these policies will have on young people 🔗↘️
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
Stop Treating Youth With Militarized Suspicion | Opinion
Do kids belong in adult court?
www.newsweek.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
With military deployment to Americans cities underway, Strategies for Youth Board Co-Chair Geordie McClelland writes in @newsweek.com about the impact that these policies will have on young people 🔗↘️
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
www.newsweek.com/stop-treatin...
A huge thank you to @newsweek.com & Rasmen Shamon for sharing a recent piece SFY Executive Director Lisa Thurau and retired Boston Police Detective Larry Ellison authored highlighting a troubling picture coming out of the Juvenile Justice Policy and Data (JJPAD) Board's 2024 Annual Report.
The Rising Cost of Ignoring Juvenile Justice Reform | Opinion
When encounters between police and youth go wrong, we all pay the price.
www.newsweek.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A huge thank you to @newsweek.com & Rasmen Shamon for sharing a recent piece SFY Executive Director Lisa Thurau and retired Boston Police Detective Larry Ellison authored highlighting a troubling picture coming out of the Juvenile Justice Policy and Data (JJPAD) Board's 2024 Annual Report.
The U.S. Supreme Court must protect the Martin family's constitutional rights.
In 2017, the FBI raided the wrong home with guns drawn — traumatizing their 7-year-old son and damaging their home.
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In 2017, the FBI raided the wrong home with guns drawn — traumatizing their 7-year-old son and damaging their home.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court asks: Can FBI be held liable for raiding the wrong house?
FBI agents handcuffed Hilliard Toi Cliatt and pointed a gun at him and Curtrina Martin while her young son cowered in a bedroom. It was the wrong house.
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April 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court must protect the Martin family's constitutional rights.
In 2017, the FBI raided the wrong home with guns drawn — traumatizing their 7-year-old son and damaging their home.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
In 2017, the FBI raided the wrong home with guns drawn — traumatizing their 7-year-old son and damaging their home.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The current state of law enforcement reform and improvement:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s DOJ Has Frozen Police Reform Work. Advocates Fear More Abuse in Departments Across the Country.
Federal investigators had identified at least eight police departments with patterns of unlawful behavior. But Trump’s freeze on oversight activities leaves many reform efforts in the hands of local l...
www.propublica.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The current state of law enforcement reform and improvement:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
NO TRAINING + NO POLICIES = IDAHO YOUTH with DISABILITIES EXECUTED in less than 12 SECONDS. THERE IS ANOTHER WAY.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Autistic teen shot by police in Idaho dies, and a community is 'torn apart'
Victor Perez, 17, was shot by officers responding to a call of a man with a knife when he was shot 9 times in his backyard in Pocatello.
www.usatoday.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
NO TRAINING + NO POLICIES = IDAHO YOUTH with DISABILITIES EXECUTED in less than 12 SECONDS. THERE IS ANOTHER WAY.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
This is how you do it: www.yahoo.com/news/las-veg...
“We didn’t do it by arresting our way out of the problem,” McMahill said. “We did it by investing and injecting humanity into those neighborhoods.”
“We didn’t do it by arresting our way out of the problem,” McMahill said. “We did it by investing and injecting humanity into those neighborhoods.”
Las Vegas police youth gang task force finds success with intervention
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – With over 40 youth gangs in the Las Vegas Valley, police say it’s a problem which they can’t arrest their way out of and instead are turning to intervention efforts which have found...
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April 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is how you do it: www.yahoo.com/news/las-veg...
“We didn’t do it by arresting our way out of the problem,” McMahill said. “We did it by investing and injecting humanity into those neighborhoods.”
“We didn’t do it by arresting our way out of the problem,” McMahill said. “We did it by investing and injecting humanity into those neighborhoods.”
We thank our colleagues at the University of Syracuse law school for their views on police handcuffing children when there is no risk.
www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...
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SU law experts: Automatically handcuffing people during police stops violates the Constitution (Guest Opinion)
Handcuffing an 11-year-old Syracuse girl was an example of sheriff's deputies violating her constitutional rights out of an excess of caution, write Syracuse University legal scholars.
www.syracuse.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We thank our colleagues at the University of Syracuse law school for their views on police handcuffing children when there is no risk.
www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...
www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...
Happy 20th Anniversary of the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons.
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Letter from the Gault Center on the 20th Anniversary of Roper v. Simmons – The Gault Center
www.defendyouthrights.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Happy 20th Anniversary of the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons.
www.defendyouthrights.org/document/let...
www.defendyouthrights.org/document/let...
Policies are a contract between law enforcement and the communities they serve. They should be public, customized, and direct officers to consider and protect the unique vulnerabilities of residents, like youth.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider
Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.
www.dailydot.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Policies are a contract between law enforcement and the communities they serve. They should be public, customized, and direct officers to consider and protect the unique vulnerabilities of residents, like youth.
www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...
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