{"id":55286,"date":"2020-04-20T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=55286"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:51:25","slug":"fhsus-dr-terry-inducted-into-kansas-advisory-group-on-juvenile-justice-delinquency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=55286","title":{"rendered":"FHSU\u2019s Dr. Terry inducted into Kansas Advisory Group on juvenile justice, delinquency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. April Terry, an assistant professor in Fort Hays State University\u2019s Department of Criminal Justice, was recently appointed to the Kansas Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. <br><br> Terry will be in position through June of 2020 on a four-year term. Her place on the committee gives Terry a voice in the governing and policy decisions in the state on issues of juvenile justice and delinquency. <br><br> \u201cI know I will be at the table with local experts and hope that with combined knowledge, we can continue seeking alternatives to confining youth,\u201d she said. \u201cSpecifically, I am interested in the different pathways that lead girls into the juvenile justice system and hope to raise awareness of these differences.\u201d <br><br> The committee meets monthly in Topeka. Although the committee is geared to juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, the committee members discuss other important issues in the state. <br><br> \u201cAt times, this committee oversees funding sources for implementing or changing existing programs and initiatives,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a group, we make recommendations on a variety of youth-related issues to the governor.\u201d <br><br> Terry\u2019s work at Fort Hays State will translate well in her new position with the advisory group. <br><br> \u201cI am excited about the opportunity to work alongside other Kansans to help improve the lives of our local youth,\u201d said Terry.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Dr. April Terry, an assistant professor in Fort Hays State University\u2019s Department of Criminal Justice, was recently appointed to the Kansas Advisory&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/april-terry-news-release.jpg?fit=750%2C1050&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55288,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55286\/revisions\/55288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}