A youth-development strategy that demonstrates all children are capable of success — Kids at Hope — is being taught to employees in Pinal County governmental agencies and could be a tool used by a local anti-drug group.
“It is a cultural framework. It’s not something that you do on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 o’clock at your school or at your organization to help engage your community, but it’s something that changes your entire culture,” said Julie Niven of Pinal County Schools with the Youth Justice Center during the June 30 meeting of StandUp AJ, Apache Junction’s drug-prevention coalition.
