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From YouTube: Q and A With Patrick McCarthy
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Patrick McCarthy is the president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. He has focused throughout his career on reforming the public systems that serve vulnerable families, closing youth prisons and creating economically inclusive and family-supporting communities. McCarthy was the featured speaker at the Legislative Summit’s deep dive, “Reaching Across the Aisle on Juvenile Justice.”
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B
2002,
the
casey
Foundation
has
partnered
with
the
National
Conference
of
State
Legislatures
as
one
of
our
most
important
policy
partners.
We've
done
a
lot
of
work
with
NCSL
around
family
economic
success
and
in
that
work
we've
funded
legislative
summits
where
we
actually
engaged
350
legislators
over
the
years
coming
in
teams
of
eight
to
ten
different
states
coming
together
and
talking
about
how
they
can
forward
policies
that
will
improve
the
economic
prospects
of
the
families
in
their
states.
B
36
states
have
participated
and
we've
seen
really
interesting
policy
change,
productive
change
in
28
of
those
states
over
that
period
of
time
in
the
last
three
years,
or
so,
we've
expanded
our
partnership
with
NCSL
to
include
focus
on
child
welfare
and
a
focus
in
juvenile
justice.
Where
we've
worked
on
issues
such
as
reducing
the
use
of
solitary
confinement,
for
example,
we
have
also
continued
to
work
with
NCSL
on
family
economic
success
issues
and
then,
most
recently,
we've
begun
to
work
with
NCSL
on
how
to
promote
a
two-generation
strategy
to
improving
outcomes
for
kids.
Yes,.
A
Thank
you
so
kind
of
building
on
that.
What
are
some
of
the
foundations,
current
priorities
and
initiatives
specifically
related
to
juvenile
justice,
would
love
to
hear
a
little
bit
about
jtai,
the
juvenile
detention
alternatives,
emission
initiative
and
closing
youth
prisons.
You
mentioned
reducing
solitary
but
Justin
just
to
get
you
started.
Those
are
some
of
the
Schreyer.
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In
our
juvenile
justice
work,
there
are
four
areas
where
we're
focusing
a
lot
of
attention.
One
is
our
continued
work
with
reducing
the
reliance
on
detention
for
young
people
who
are
charged
with
a
crime,
but
have
not
yet
had
their
hearing.
We've
been
involved
in
that
work
for
25
years,
we're
in
over
300
different
jurisdictions
around
the
country,
with
an
average
reduction
in
detention
population
in
those
jurisdictions
of
forty
three
percent,
so
that
continues
to
be
a
priority
as
we
roll
that
out
across
the
nation.
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Our
second
area
of
priority
is
to
reduce
the
numbers
of
children
who
go
into
youth
prisons,
who
go
into
institutions
because
of
their
involvement
with
the
juvenile
justice
system,
and
we've
worked
with
a
number
of
states
to
reduce
that
pipeline
into
those
juvenile
facilities.
Most
recently,
we
have
announced
a
major
effort
to
literally
close
youth
prisons.
Now
again
we're
talking
about
the
large,
very
secure
oriented,
command-and-control
kind
of
institutions
that
we
found
don't
work
for
young
people.
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B
Each
year
we
publish
a
data
report
that
compares
the
states
on
how
children
in
each
state
are
doing
across
16,
different
indicators
of
child
well-being,
health
and
education
and
their
economic
circumstances,
etc.
In
addition,
periodically
throughout
the
year
will
issue
policy
reports
where
we
make
recommendations
about
problems
that
families
and
children
may
be
facing.
B
Let
me
start
that
over
we
found
that
when
parents
are
incarcerated,
children
often
bear
a
lot
of
the
brunt
of
the
negative
outcomes.
There
are
more
likely
to
have
problems
in
school.
The
economic
situation
deteriorates
they're
more
likely
to
have
mental
health
problems,
and
we
make
a
number
of
recommendations
that
we
believe
states
can
put
in
place
to
reduce
the
risk
to
the
children
who,
after
are,
after
all,
are
completely
innocent.
In
this
situation,
reduce
the
risk
to
children
when
a
parent
is
incarcerated.
B
Things
like
encouraging
courts
to
ensure
that
the
parent
is
placed
in
a
facility
that
is
not
so
far
from
the
child
that
the
child
loses
in
complete
contact
with
the
parent
helping
the
parent,
while
the
parent
is
incarcerated,
to
learn
how
to
become
a
better
parent.
Once
they're
released,
helping
parents
who
are
released
find
work,
find
a
place
to
live
and
be
reunited
with
their
child.
It.
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B
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B
In
many
ways,
state
legislators
have
one
of
the
most
critical
roles
to
play
in
making
sure
our
juvenile
justice
system
does.
What
it's
supposed
to
do.
The
public
is
very
clear:
they
want
young
people
who
get
in
trouble
with
the
law
to
receive
services,
so
they're
less
likely
to
reoffend.
They
want
the
community
safe
and
they
want
to
see
young
people
be
put
back
on
the
right
track.
Legislators
play
a
huge
role
in
determining
whether
or
not
that
happens.
It
begins
with
how
the
system
is
funded.
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The
simple
most
important
thing
a
legislature
can
do
is
to
ask
himself
or
ask
herself:
are
we
getting
what
we're
paying
for
from
the
juvenile
justice
system?
In
other
words,
look
at
the
results
and
if
you
have
institutions
where
75
to
85
percent
of
young
people
are
reira
stood
or
reincarnated
within
two
or
three
years,
you
have
to
ask
the
question
of
whether
or
not
that's
a
good
investment
when
you're
spending
anywhere
from
85
thousand
dollars
a
year
to
250
thousand
dollars
a
year
to
incarcerate
one
child.
Is
that
a
good
investment?