Make A Change In The Community Essay

Make a Change in The Community
One of my community’s biggest issues is the violence and crime among teenagers. The teenagers act as though they do not know how to respect one another’s opinions, or work together peacefully. Some naturally do illegal things and act out in such an aggressive manner that they end up with a criminal record. It has been said that tough love and punishment will help reduce our youth’s behavior, but I disagree. There is proof that if we open programs and give troubled children personal therapy their behavior changes. I think my community needs to tend to the youth’s bad behavior emotionally and physically more to help reduce the chances of them becoming criminals as adults. All it takes is attention, therapy, and …show more content…
For a while the court system and parents were deciding the best way to handle a troubled teen was boot camp, but teens were going home and still getting in trouble. However, in an article written by Gina Galston, she talks about how the boot camp style has been proven to be a less effective treatment for troubled youth than a therapeutic teen treatment program in Houston, TX. The teen treatment program emphasizes and gives out individual therapy which is reducing recidivism. The programs are strict like boot camp but also focus on the teens individual issues, skills that they will need, and the risk factors that brings out the youth’s delinquent ways. “I took classes with a counselor, she taught me how to relax. But right now, I don’t get aggressive real fast, so I’m a pretty calm person now,” said a fifteen-year-old who attends the program that pulled a knife on his own dad. Since therapeutic programs opened the statistics show that it has been a 20 percent recidivism rate. This shows that when we attend to the needs of our youth’s individual problems we can help change their lives------------------ from turning them into adult