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Central Shenandoah Office on Youth reports expanded services, rising need among younger juveniles
Summary
Jenny Newman told council the Office on Youth served diversionary and detention-alternative youth and expanded prevention programs; she reported an increase in younger participants and weapon incidents and stressed prevention's cost-effectiveness, a point echoed by a citizen speaker.
Jenny Newman, director of the Central Shenandoah Office on Youth, presented the office's annual report to the Waynesboro City Council on Nov. 24, summarizing services, trends and program outcomes.
Newman said the office served 57 youth through detention alternatives and 63 through diversionary programs in the reporting year and emphasized that participants are becoming younger (shifting from ages 15——1 to more…
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