Strategies

Provide education and training sessions with parent-child activities and family meals for youth, parents, and care providers

Establish policies, plans, and programs that meet the needs of all residents of a community, especially children and older adults, and promote interaction and cooperation between individuals of different generations

Increase the minimum and/or maximum age boundaries for youth to be processed in the juvenile justice system

Support a trauma-informed juvenile justice system to recognize and respond to trauma’s impact on youth through staff training and broad adoption of trauma-informed practices and policies

Restrict full contact between youth football players via limits to the number of contact practices, head hits per player, delay tackling until a certain age, etc.