Years before there was a fathering court I was tapped to participate in a city wide evidence based investigative body of legal professional. The group had been tasked with the development of an entirely new way of embracing the ever growing population of youth offenders. I along with several others spent a period of 18 month traveling to different programs across the eastern sea board observing and learning from other communities how they addressed the issue of youth offender reintegration. At the time the District of Columbia was under strick time constraint to develop a viable plan to address the need to quickly and safely provide a series of alternative to incarceration for you teen offenders. I along with other spent hours discussing,
