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Speaker 1: Here the duplicyls.

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Speaker 2: The second boot camp pilot is kicking off on Monday.

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Speaker 2: It will involve ten new teenagers. The time that they

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Speaker 2: will spend in the facility will double from three to

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Speaker 2: six months, and the remaining six months will be spent

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Speaker 2: in the community. Children's Minister Karen Sure's with us now, Hi, Karen,

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Speaker 2: I'm well thank you. Why are we doing a second pilot.

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Speaker 1: Because the first fire pilot really showed promising results and

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Speaker 1: driving change for these young people for the better when

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Speaker 1: they're out in the community. We've seen some really positive

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Speaker 1: results in regards to how they're behaving once they're back

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Speaker 1: out in the community. We can't just keep having a

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Speaker 1: revolving door policy and allowing them to just keep coming

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Speaker 1: in and out without actually supporting them once they return

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Speaker 1: to community. And it's not just about the young people.

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Speaker 1: It's about their siblings, it's about their family, and it's

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Speaker 1: about their wider community. And this has shown some real

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Speaker 1: positive results in that space.

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Speaker 2: What crimes have these ten teenagers committed to.

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Speaker 1: Be part of the program itself. They must have committed

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Speaker 1: crimes punishable of up to ten ten years have proven

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Speaker 1: in court twice, so they're pretty serious offenders, the repeat offenders,

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Speaker 1: and things that we've tried before haven't worked, so we

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Speaker 1: need a more intensive wrap around program really concentrating on

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Speaker 1: what's behind their behaviors.

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Speaker 2: And the doubling of the time that they spend in

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Speaker 2: the facility is that basically to get them away from

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Speaker 2: whatever it is their family or their friends or their

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Speaker 2: gangs or whatever that's causing them to fall out of line.

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Speaker 3: Essentially partially, but part of the evaluation on the report

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Speaker 3: and that's available for the public to say, actually stated

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Speaker 3: that more time within residents would have been helpful.

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Speaker 1: Because we were still working through some of those issues

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Speaker 1: they were dealing with ma reconnection and all that was

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Speaker 1: done in a space which was safe for the young

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Speaker 1: person and safe for the family themselves. Just gives a

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Speaker 1: bit of extra time to work through some of those things.

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Speaker 2: When they go back into the community, because that feels

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Speaker 2: to me like the high risk point where they just

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Speaker 2: get basically fall into the same old behavior. Have you

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Speaker 2: got more support then yes.

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Speaker 1: So there were learnings when it comes to the matching

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Speaker 1: of mentoring, actually creating a relationship between the young person

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Speaker 1: and the mentor a bit earlier, having more interaction with

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Speaker 1: the mentor coming into that in residence program and bonding befurehand.

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Speaker 1: The young people have a lot of say and who

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Speaker 1: their mentor is, so we worked through that a lot

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Speaker 1: better than we did the first time round.

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Speaker 2: All right, Karen listen, good luck with it and looking

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing how this goes. Karen sure, the Children's Minister.

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