| Abstract: | The most reliable barometer on the status of Michigan's children reported a noteworthy decrease in juvenile crime in Calhoun County, Michigan, during the period of time when the W. K. Kellogg Foundation funded a model program for the county's most criminally active juveniles. This article summarizes how the confluence of need and resources led to the development of an exemplary solution to some of the problems facing contemporary juvenile justice programs and services. The irony is not that a public-private venture to develop effective community-based collaboratives proved successful, but that this effort occurred in the local juvenile detention center. |
