"Every child will become
a self-sufficient
productive adult."
The Ford County Juvenile Justice Council envisions
a county where all citizens work together to maintain and improve a healthy
community in which to live, to grow, to learn, and to prosper.
The Ford County Juvenile Justice Council provides
a collaborative, organizational network that increases opportunities for
youth to be responsible community members by promoting positive youth development,
and reduces juvenile crime by enhancing public safety, accountability,
and care and concern for every child in the county.
By posting the following links, the Ford
County Juvenile Justice Council takes no responsibility for the contents of
other sites nor do we endorse any particular sites or their functions. We only
offer them as an additional resource.
 A
Family Guide to keeping youth mentally healthy and drug free
Illinois
Department of Public Health -
I PLAN
Search
Institute Inc.'s Developmental
Assets
Restorative
Justice Tutorial |
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The
Ford County Resource Directory |
| Universal Predictors of Juvenile Crime |
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Gender
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Age at first adjudication
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Prior criminal behavior and commitments
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Substance abuse
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School problems
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Family relationships
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Peer relationships
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"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -Mahatma
Gandhi |
Our target popluation is youth who are exhibiting disruptive or delinquent
behavior.
Each community has its own unique set of risk and protective factors
that drive the offender population towards certain pathways to delinquency
that have been established in research. |
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