Completed Projects
How Are The Children? (2019)
Today, the U.S. and countries all over the world face an unprecedented epidemic of drug addiction, suicide, and mental, emotional, & behavioral disorders. Will science reveal the key to averting these crises?
Child psychologist and prevention scientist Dr. Dennis Embry has dedicated his life to researching and developing strategies that not only treat, but even prevent these issues altogether.
This documentary explores how Embry and the PAXIS Institute developed the PAX Good Behavior Game - the renowned universal preventive intervention program proven to have a vital impact on our children's futures.
Meet Ozzie Mann, one young offender who went into the justice system at 12 and returned many times. At 21, he ages out of the system, but will he succeed on the outside?
Interviews with the lawyers, monitors and the plaintiffs in the Department of Youth Services under the State of Ohio.
Ozzie Mann (2010)
State of Ohio DYS Juvenile Justice Project (2009)
In 2007, the Department of Youth Services, under the State Ohio, was found to exhibit grave deficiencies in their use of physical force, mental health care, grievance investigation and processing and use of seclusion. DYS entered into a consent decree with the state in June 2008 to remedy these violations at the Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility and the since-closed Marion Juvenile Correctional Facility.
This video was one of the initial reporting methods of the decree.
For more info go to http://www.childrenslawky.org/index/litigation.html.
The Reentry Project (2010)
The Children's Law Center in Kentucky created "The Reentry Project," a program developed in order to help juveniles as they exit the juvenile justice system.
The program teaches them life skills, adaptability, delayed gratification and other important traits they may not have learned in their lives up to this point.
This short documentary provides an overview of the project from those who oversee the program as well as the young people who the program is designed to help.
