Youth Care & Security
Youth Care and Safety Seminar
There must be prospects for young people who come into contact with the criminal justice system. We believe this is important. For the best support of this group, good cooperation between municipalities, forensic youth care providers and criminal justice partners (OM, RvdK, GI’s etc.) is crucial. This is already going well in many places in the Netherlands, but we also see that steps can still be taken in the connection between municipalities and criminal justice partners.
To contribute to this, EHdK organized a seminar on Youth Care and Safety on November 14, 2023 in De Lik Utrecht.
During the seminar, professionals from the field and leading experts presented their insights and good examples from around the country. The program included several presentations, interactive workshops and valuable networking opportunities. Visitors had the opportunity to gain new knowledge, share experiences and establish new partnerships.
This seminar was for all interested administrators, (program) managers, policy staff and professionals from municipalities, juvenile justice and forensic providers dealing with the topic of Youth Care and Security. In particular, the seminar focused on professionals from municipalities.
Roundtable discussion
Reviewing presentations
An exploration of the role of street work and youth work in preventing youth crime. These young people are not actively seeking help, so how do you make contact? Evelien Nijland (PerMens) and Hans Huizer and Wouter Zwijnenburg (Dock) took us through how to reach this target group anyway. That means consistently making contact on the street – even when there is a negative response.
How do you treat this target group and see young people in their power? Streetwork can take a firm position on this. Which one is that? You can read about that in the presentation.
What makes forensic youth care different from regular youth care? Some youth are admitted to forensic care without customized treatments – while this is much needed. Larissa Hoogsteder (De Waag) talked more about the system and the factors surrounding youth that influence their behavior. Larissa brought interesting insights from the perspective offender to victimization.
Often a single type of care is purchased from the region, but customized forensic care is not provided. She gave interpretation on the possibilities of different treatments and their (in)effectiveness. You can read the presentation here
More and more online crimes involving juveniles are taking place. Frans Barend (Police) introduced ideas on the prevention of online youth crime and what role education and youth institutions can take. He also took his audience through various initiatives that are already being undertaken to act preventively on this target group.
The presentation is not available at this time but would you like to receive it? Email us and we will send this to you shortly.
Marjo Volman explained how the Lekstroom region has shaped the procurement of forensic outpatient care together with neighboring regions Gooi and Vechtstreek and Utrecht Zuid Oost. She mentioned the important lesson of intensively discussing the care they provide with the forensic providers.
In addition, adding forensic expertise to municipal district teams was a key focus to ensure that appropriate care can be provided to these youth. You view the presentation here.
Working together on prevention
Many different organizations are involved within the juvenile justice chain. From colleagues from the social domain to providers of forensic youth care. How can these parties find each other and work together to prevent young people from sliding (further) into crime? Wendy van Lith (Partners voor Jeugd) led this workshop. The main challenges and examples were discussed. Special attention was given to the KansRIJK approach. This is a proactive neighborhood-oriented approach developed by William Schrikker Youth Probation in cooperation with the Regiecentrum. The aim of this approach is to deploy the expertise of the youth probation service at the front, even before a young person is given a measure.
During the workshop, participants discussed what the various parties need from each other in order to work together on the front end. There was also an expert by experience who shared her valuable insights with the group.
You can view the presentation here. You can watch the video from the presentation here.
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