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The Division of Youth Services’ (DYS) mission is to protect communities from juvenile offenders in the division's care and custody and to provide appropriate services to youth and their families. This balanced approach to juvenile justice relies on community partnerships for the development and enhancement of services for the prevention of ...
The "DMC" requirement was added in the JJDPA in the 1992 amendments to the Act, [8] the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 93-415). [9] The 1992 reauthorization also established new requirements for states to identify and address gender bias. [10]
The Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grants was a program that was originally authorized by Sections 402 to 409 of the Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1985 (Public Law 98-473). [2] CAPTA was completely rewritten in the Child Abuse Prevention, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-294). [3]
A rural Missouri boarding school at the center of abuse allegations has closed its doors, and a state agency is trying to determine if it adequately responded to previous concerns about the ...
Sexual abuse within the county’s Probation Department has been in the local spotlight since 2020, when California passed a law providing victims of childhood sexual abuse a new window to sue.
In the US there was a 2348% increase in hotline calls from 150,000 in 1963 to 3.3 million in 2009. [7] In 2011, there were 3.4 million calls. [8] From 1992 to 2009 in the US, substantiated cases of sexual abuse declined 62%, physical abuse decreased 56% and neglect 10%.
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Prohibition caused Missouri's economy to take a hit, as large wineries like Stone Hill Winery were shut down during prohibition. Vineyards were also uprooted, making it impossible to resume production in 1933, when alcohol bans were lifted. There are no dry counties in the state of Missouri. In Missouri's constitution, dry counties are ...