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The program is expanding with a substantial grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health. This groundbreaking partnership is changing the culture of pediatric practice in St.
Louis by encouraging a holistic approach to children's healthcare. Because growing up in poverty presents a serious threat to a child's health, a medical-legal partnership is a unique way to improve children's health outcomes by bringing together providers who ensure that the basic needs of the child and family are met.
By helping patients navigate the complex government and community systems that often hold solutions, providers and CHAP can improve the health of the most vulnerable people in our society—low-income children. An unidentified youth faces sentencing in California court. Photo courtesy Journal of Social Change. At the beginning of the year, a new Missouri law raising the age at which teenagers can be charged as adults for crimes, and thus sending them to adult prison facilities, was supposed to take effect — but across the state, many courts and prosecutors are acting as if the law was never passed and nothing has changed, The Kansas City Star reports.
The implementation of the law, which says year-olds will no longer be automatically charged as adults after committing a crime, is being delayed because of a lack of funding, according to the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association. To combat this injustice, the Missouri General Assembly passed the law in to raise the age of adult prosecution to 18, noting that additional funding would be required for the increased caseloads in juvenile courts and youth programming staff following the youth influx.
In St. Its purpose it is to improve coordination between mental health and juvenile justice to better serve youth involved with these systems and advocate for the needs of this population. The Alliance Newsletter can be found in the Special Reports section of this site. Each of the 18 children highlighted were adopted into a permanent home.
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