Mile High Magazine 02/09/2025 Justice Engaged Students of Colorado Hotline

Guest:  Dr. Joseph Silva

 in the state of Colorado, there are 22,000 Justice Engaged Students.  These are students that might homeless, students that might be on truancy, (those that have been charged with different types of varying crimes).  A Justice Engaged Student is someone that between the age of 14 and 18 that has engaged in the justice system in a negative way or in a way that has created a deficit that then impacts their ability to finish high school.  Justice Engaged Students helps to ensure their pathway to high school graduation.  They have a 90% graduation rate of students that we've worked with to graduate.  The Justice Engaged Students will have a hotline starting later this year.  The hotline is for anybody to call and get resources and to understand the legislation and the laws and more so the constitutional rights of a student to be educated in the state of Colorado.  It’s about one student, one student at a time.

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