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Collaboration, Sharing Data Key to Helping Dual Status Youth, Experts Say at Symposium [JJIE.org]

 

DeAngelo Cortijo remembers the fear he felt as a young boy on the day his mother was lifted unconscious into an ambulance. He thought he would never see her again.

It was a moment that set off a yearslong struggle as he bounced between family and foster placements and eventually into the juvenile justice system. Along the way, he grew frustrated by the inability of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to help him cope with the trauma he had experienced.

“I became angry, confused and gave up,” Cortijo said during the inaugural Dual Status Youth Symposium hosted last week by the RFK National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice.



[For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/collaboration-...-experts-say/224362/]

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