Opinion: For young people, friendliness can be founded by La Crime | be hard | Quin Hillyer

Someone can do “hard in crime” and at the same time without logical contradiction also preventive work to combat the “basic causes of crime”. Social work and the public prosecutor do not have to rule out each other and can actually be added.

Especially with non -violent young criminals, an ounce of prevention can be worth a whole lot of prison doors.

For this reason, it is so important that Louisiana has appointed programs in the entire state under the supervision of the Supreme Court of the State, the families who need services or fins. It would be even better if more private or non-profit groups were teamed up to work with the FINS groups and multiply the good work of the FINS.

As reported by Haley Miller of this newspaper, the FINS group for the communities of West Baton Rouge, Iberville and Pointe Coupee, is “full of success stories”. Fins takes “status trimmers” the people who practice with small crimes who can only be committed by minors and how to protect them-and intervene to keep them away from the court system by leading them to advice or other resources that can help to reverse their lives.

In many families, the basic needs such as flowing water, electricity or access to transport are missing. Gracie Bergeron, the director of this tri-parish fins, told me that flowers will “create a service plan that has a list of providers” and also provides mentoring and accompanies children to meet at school or in front of courts to help the children and their families feel comfortable to get the children on the right lane.

Small things are important, she said: “How can you go to school if you have no clean clothes or have no lights or even water to brush your teeth in the morning?”

One of the wonderful outfits that work with FINS is called Gumbo, for Global United Mission benefits us and others. Gumbo is a diverse non -profit non -profit veteran Deborah Dickerson and offers meals for the needy of the community while using children who are called kitchen workers by fins.

“We give you a safe harbor and give you skills you need: entrepreneurship skills and services,” said Dickerson. “And we also discuss a lot about what you want and who you want.”

This is exactly the type of public-private collaboration that implements life, prevents children from levels who often lead to crime, and instead it helps them to ensure self-sufficiency and success. For example, flowers played a major role in supporting the municipal schools of the West Baton Rouge, the chronic absence in just one year from 18.7% halved to 9.8%.

This model of combating land also causes work elsewhere in the country. I have already had a program in Mobile, ALA, called, nest, nest- children, exploit children, strengthen families and transform the communities- in which four or five teams of voluntary young criminals help to sometimes do something serious crimes as fins.

“We learned very quickly that there was very little hope of helping young people, unless we turned to the surroundings in which they lived,” said Norman McCrmen, a conservative pensioner and Presbyterian minister, the nest with the judge of the youth court in Mobile County, Edmond G. Naman.

“A team went into the house in which one of our mentees lived and found that there were many thousands of cockroaches, no beds, one or two chairs, no electricity – so [we] Quickly arranged to get electricity, and within a week the house had been bast and furniture was made available. “

Professional researchers at the University of South Alabama found that the rate of the crime function for young criminals at national level 52%and for mobile county a total of 66%for similarly located nest participants was only 26%.

And Nest Director Carole Grant says that among nest participants in a new “life competence” program, 97% have passed the current tests in schools.

I mention Nest's remarkable success to suggest that with a little additional public money and even greater commitment to public-private partnerships with wonderful groups such as Gumbo or other nest-like groups that Louisians could possibly create. Perhaps the state's FINS groups could not only expand “status criminal offenders”, but also other serious, but still not subsequent youthful misunderstandings.

Flins, Nest and Gumbo all show that the individual attention, combined with the support of combating basic causes, keeps teenagers away from anger and helps them to thrive instead.

“Show investigations,” said Bergeron von Fins, “that when children have a positive person in their lives who defines the standard and supports them, has all the effects on the world.”

The more support Louisiana offers fins, the more children keep their heads over turbulent waters.