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1 Summative Assessment: Advocacy Letter Amari Robinson CPSS//400 University of Pheonix 02/15/2023 Professor Kirkham

2 Dear Representative I am writing you as a human service practitioner at a community re-entry center regarding efforts to change and advocate for diversity and equity in the Mental health program for juvenile delinquents that we offer. I would like to see more offered support for at risk youth/juveniles offenders who are dealing with trauma and mental health illness. I believe there are many juveniles who are going through mental health and instead of asking for the help they start acting out in a toxic way. Many youth aren’t educated or don’t have the resources to receive the mental health support that is needed with in the community and instead of them being helped they are thrown in the system and placed in juvenile facilities. Then after being released from the juvenile facilities they are then helped and are offered a mental health evaluation when that should’ve been a top priority before they were placed their sometimes it’s too late when being released from prison, to get the help and some kids becomes their traumas instead of overcoming them. so they are offered the support and correct treatment that they need to become better individuals. The two advocacy strategies that I will be presenting in this letter will be self-advocacy due to experience and individual advocacy. I selected both strategies because of personal experience as a registered behavior interventionist, I have come across juveniles who have been placed in a 30-day re-entry program through the juvenile system to complete their sentencing while receiving their education due to their intense behavior or risk of recidivism. Being an Advocate for these juveniles I understand they have a lot of traumas that’s has caused mental health and due to them not knowing how to cope with their behavior they acted out in a risky way and instead of them getting the help they need; they are placed in juvenile facilities for a

3 certain amount of time then they are assessed and treated. I believe if council and people in the community are more proactive in our communities by creating more programs for mental health for at risk youth and more recreation centers that include extracurricular activities for children /teens to go to instead of being in the street and getting into trouble. My biggest concern within the community is educating parents, teachers and public service workers on how important it is for juveniles to receive mental health counseling Especially in the African American community. Many adults feel that teens who act out in intensive ways just have behavior issues, have no discipline at home, or just troublemakers but in realty there is always a reason for why a teen/child reacts whether its past trauma or current trauma. “ The overrepresentation of African Americans in the South, especially in impoverished rural areas, is another result of history. Hardship in these communities is notable, and a limited safety net provides relatively few services to address high levels of mental health need ” ( Fox et al., 1995 ). “The disparity in poverty rates affects older adults as well. Older African Americans are almost three times as likely as whites to be poor. The poverty rate among single African American women living alone or with non-relatives is very high” ( Ruiz, 1995 ). This is a very important factor considering mental health for the at-risk youth that live in poverty environments there must be a safety outlet for them to go, to help them with the traumas that they see in their neighborhoods and inside their households. As an interventionist Every kid that I have supported have had some kind of trauma that has followed them, and some have behaviors due to a disability, but most have behaviors due to mental health and traumas that they have never had the support to heal from. Being more proactive in the community as a human service practitioner and asking councilman to be more proactive so that these young teens know that they have support not only from people within

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4 their community but also people who aren’t in their community it’s a good feeling and it’s a great start. References Ruiz, D. S. (1995)In D. K. Padgett (Ed.), Handbook of ethnicity, aging, and mental health , Westport,, CT. Greenwood Press. Fox, J., Merwin, E., & Blank, M. De facto mental health services in the rural south. 6 Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, . (1995):434–468.

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