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Montgomery County leaders outline youth safety strategy as agencies point to data and coordination
Summary
County HHS, MCPD and MCPS presented a multi-agency briefing on April 21, 2026 describing prevention programs, a new youth data dashboard, coordinated responses to recent incidents and plans for expanded behavioral health capacity; council members pressed for clearer coverage of schools and more public outreach.
Montgomery County officials on April 21 laid out a cross-agency approach to youth safety that pairs prevention programs with crisis response while acknowledging gaps in coverage and the need for better data sharing.As council president Natalie Fanny Gonzalez convened a multi-agency panel, HHS, the Montgomery County Police Department and Montgomery County Public Schools described new tools and recent responses intended to protect students and intervene early.
Lori Garabe Aquino, chief of children, youth and family services at the county Department of Health and Human Services, described the county's youth resilience initiative and a soon-to-be-published youth data dashboard that combines federal and local sources. "The dashboard includes publicly available data'... and will allow the community partners to use the information to guide where we strategize our programming efforts," she said, noting the dashboard will permit drill-downs by ZIP code, race and grade level.
HHS highlighted a suite of prevention…
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