http://www.kidscounsel.org/ct-shows-progress-on-race-justice-law-enforcement/ CT News Junkie May 8, 2015 OP-ED Joette Katz, DCF Commissioner The Center for Children's Advocacy, through its Executive Director Martha Stone, along with the Yale Consultation Center, supported by funding from the MacArthur foundation, helped to replicate and expand the original Pennsylvania Disproportionate Minority Youth/Law Enforcement Curriculum to help Connecticut focus more directly on how implicit bias, racial stereotypes, mental health, and psychological trauma impact interactions between law enforcement and youth of color. The 2015 Connecticut curriculum was named the Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Curriculum: 2015 Connecticut Racial Equity Program to emphasize specifically the role and importance of racial equity in the juvenile justice system. Police from each city were paired with boys from those communities to have a no-holds-barred discussion of race, justice, and law enforcement. There were some tense moments - no doubt because the issues surrounding fairness are very real in the daily lives of the boys, their families, and their communities. Nevertheless, the issues of race and fairness, as well as of the effects of trauma and limited economic opportunities, were squarely... Read OpEd<http://www.kidscounsel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CTNewsJunkieopedKatz5-15.pdf>