Steve Evangelista, longtime NYC educator, and Anthony Celestine, director of the Office of Juvenile Justice Services at Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, talk about Calcasieu’s Multi-Agency Resource Center. MARC, an assessment center that coordinates services for struggling families, has been extraordinarily successful in reducing young people’s involvement with the juvenile justice system.
Transcript
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Overview
00:00-00:50 Intros
00:50-01:28 How Steve and Anthony met
01:28-03:19 What the MARC is and how it is innovative
03:19-04:51 Families’ fears
04:51-07:59 Educator’s perspective on demystifying assessment centers
07:59-15:16 Matching needed services with referrals
15:16-18:57 Building support from different stakeholders
18:57-25:23 Changes in community attitudes over time
25:23-27:11 Patterns of success and difficulty with assessment centers
27:11-32:43 Environmental conditions for successful assessment centers
32:43-33:21 Schools reaching out for intervention before explosions
33:21-36:26 Suggestions for listeners
36:10- Outro
References
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