Angela Hardin and Wolf attended Williamson County Juvenile Justice Center’s first Behavioral Health in the Legal and Justice Systems Conference Nov 17th. Wolf is training to be a therapy dog; just one of the increasingly useful tools in the box for better emotional health.
The Conference was proposed by District Judges Stacey Mathews and Betsy Lambeth to provide a forum for attorneys, CPS case workers, law enforcement and all manner of child advocates to collaborate on “Trust-Based Relational Intervention.”
Juvenile Services Assistant Director Matt Smith said, “We are primarily concerned with the root cause when a child comes into the system and TBRI is a new way of dealing with and helping kids. The more science discovers and understands about how the brain reacts —trauma, addiction, at-risk environments and even neurobiology—the more we can recognize what’s really going on and how we can make positive change.”
Visit Child.TCU.EDU for information about how TBRI is making a difference in the Justice System.
