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Peertopeer interventions. Can you talk to us a little bit, and how does that work . There are a variety of ways that we can utilize the information, the expertise of peers to help each other. Theres peer mentoring, theres peer mediation, therere a variety of Different Things that we can do. With peer mediation, we work with youth to help each other resolve conflict, which is a tremendously useful thing in this day and age because there are so many opportunities for youth to be in conflict, not just in person now, but digitally. We want to give them as many ways to resolve those conflicts as po...

Oh, my gosh. Intimidate each other . We are only just beginning to even get a handle on everything, its exploding so quickly. The common ways that they interact in a negative way, well say, that everyone kind of knows about, are things like facebook and twitter and texting and things like that. But there are a variety of other platforms online where youth are interacting that adults are only just becoming really aware of. Such as . Even things like instagram. You know, they can even have negative interactions with instagram. So, the key thing for parents to know with all of that, well really, ...

What were doing is not even consistent with american history. I mean, we had 500,000 people behind bars in 1980 and now we have 2. 3 million, 2. 4 Million People behind bars and almost have 5,000 people behind bars just for a drug violation. There are as many people behind bars for a drug violation than we had for everything in 1980. Its not consistent with Global Standards and not consistent with our own history. Its costing a vast amount of money and i think what you see is for some of the d. A. s and others are beginning to say enough is enough. Were seeing prison populations beginning to d...

Peertopeer interventions. Can you talk to us a little bit, and how does that work . There are a variety of ways that we can utilize the information, the expertise of peers to help each other. Theres peer mentoring, theres peer mediation, therere a variety of Different Things that we can do. With peer mediation, we work with youth to help each other resolve conflict, which is a tremendously useful thing in this day and age because there are so many opportunities for youth to be in conflict, not just in person now, but digitally. We want to give them as many ways to resolve those conflicts as po...

Country in albany county, new york, in philadelphia, in atlanta, dallas, who are really beginning to break ranks with the broader d. A. s associations and call for various types of reforms for the drug laws and Drug Enforcement. I think that the one of the contexts thats so important here and people so often lose sight of is that this bill, 1506, is a small effort in the state of california and in the country of the United States to try to roll back the horrendous rates of incarceration that have happened in this country over the last 30 years. I mean, thats the context, right . The United Sta...