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Show # 1044 Page 64 L: Mmmmm. X: it would have to be nationwide ah - resource file, now does your organization provide some • L; We don't have such a resource file at the moment. We've got some scattered resources that are known to us, but this is something that we certainly ought to do, and I think we are doing it. Ah - and I think probably then it would be wise for us to put together some kind of - what? Ah - kind of a dictionary of resources, as it were, to give lawyers a better idea as to what it - kind of proposals they could make. Part of this, though, of course, is back to putting the arm on the tribe again, maybe, or somebody, because unless the community has the resources available in it, there's not very much you can do. ' Cause the - the thrust, at least of thinking right now, for example, is this, is this that really too many kids get into the juvenile court to begin with. They have these classifications of kids as unmanageable - the kid who won t go to school. Is this a kid who ought to be sent off as though - be treated like he's a criminal? Probably not. Certainly not. But, we channel all these kids into the court, and the court deals with them as though - very similar fashion, as though they committed a crime. Ah - and the thrust is try to develop some community resources outside of juvenile court. |
