Comments on: Rehabilitating TYC http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=963 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: ead http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=963#comment-81373 ead Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:24:31 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=963#comment-81373 AS an employee of an "early intervention program" I am completely behind helping the children before it gets to locking them up in TYC. TYC and the jail system are not set up for rehabilitiation. I feel that at one point it was a "good" idea, but it has gone terribly wrong. Are we throwing these kids away because society is made uncomfortable by their actions? Let's work on breaking the cycle, which requires funding and social support. AS an employee of an “early intervention program” I am completely behind helping the children before it gets to locking them up in TYC. TYC and the jail system are not set up for rehabilitiation. I feel that at one point it was a “good” idea, but it has gone terribly wrong. Are we throwing these kids away because society is made uncomfortable by their actions? Let’s work on breaking the cycle, which requires funding and social support.

]]> By: Children & the Law Blog » Blog Archive » Sunset on TYC? A Timeline and Update http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=963#comment-80801 Children & the Law Blog » Blog Archive » Sunset on TYC? A Timeline and Update Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:36:57 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=963#comment-80801 [...] Rehabilitating TYC Perhaps the agency has been so hard to rehabilitate because its problems extend beyond a handful of troubled facilities or a flawed approach to juvenile justice. Mental health advocates blame public officials’ failure to recognize the importance of early intervention programs within the mental health system statewide as a key culprit. [...] […] Rehabilitating TYC Perhaps the agency has been so hard to rehabilitate because its problems extend beyond a handful of troubled facilities or a flawed approach to juvenile justice. Mental health advocates blame public officials’ failure to recognize the importance of early intervention programs within the mental health system statewide as a key culprit. […]

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