#12 How Oregon turned the dial on juvenile justice reform (Part 2 of 2)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ari Wagner, Chief Operating Officer for Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc (GOBHI) and the Director of Operations which is the department that The Center is under. Ari discusses:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why scaring, educating, and exercising someone out of crime doesn’t work;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exposure to childhood trauma as a risk factor for engagement in the criminal justice system and the importance of one stable and supportive adult in a child’s life as a protective factor;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Juvenile SIM work at The Center;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The importance of looking at the data and asking questions around over representation in the juvenile justice system, so changes can be made; and </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ari’s book about the juvenile justice system, “Dispatches from Juvenile Hall: Fixing a Failing System” under the name Linda Wagner. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information about the intersection between criminal justice and behavioral health in Oregon, please reach out to us through our website at</span> <a href="http://www.ocbhji.org/podcast"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://www.ocbhji.org/podcast</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and Facebook page at</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OCBHJI/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.facebook.com/OCBHJI/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’d love to hear from you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information about “Dispatches from Juvenile Hall: Fixing a Failing System” by John Aarons, Lisa Smith, and Linda Wagner: </span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Juvenile-Hall-Fixing-Failing/dp/0143116223#:~:text=A%20revolutionary%20book%20that%20offers,institutions%20are%20failing%20to%20curtail"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Juvenile-