cultural awareness training for juvenile justice professionals.
provide alternative education programs for truants and other at-risk students.
Delegates to the 1993 LWV-TX Convention voted to re-study the juvenile justice system in Texas and to look into the problem of juvenile violence as well. A Facts & Issues, Juvenile Violence and the Juvenile Justice System in Texas, was produced by the study committee and circulated to all members, selected government officials and agencies, and other interested groups and individuals. Consensus was reached in the fall of 1994, and the new position was approved by the state board in November of that year. The current position replaces the former juvenile justice position which had been adopted in 1977.