Mr. Tim Decker

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  "Other programs put their money into fences and isolation, cells and security hardware," said Tim Decker, director of the Missouri Division of Youth Services.
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  "This approach is much tougher than young people spending their time sitting in a cell," Decker said.

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  "What it really illustrates is how impulsive these kids are," said Tim Decker, director of Missouri's Division of Youth Services.
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  Decker, the youth services director, said work has begun to fix the fence.He said procedures say doors shouldn't be unlocked with youths nearby.

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  JEFFERSON CITY -- Saying there is a synergy between treatment and education, Missouri Department of Social Services' Division of Youth Services (DYS) Director Tim Decker announced today that 312 DYS students completed their secondary education in Fiscal Year 2008.Those 312 students, all with a tie to the juvenile justice system, earned their GED or high school diploma.The accomplishment exceeds Decker's goal of 300 and the Fiscal Year 2007 total of 270.
  
  "These young people now have an enhanced opportunity to be productive members of society.It's a first step in their path to a successful career," Decker said.
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  Many of these youth have struggled in school, but they were persistent," Decker said.
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  I am so proud of the students, as well as Tim and the entire DYS staff."

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  "Young people are really turning their lives around and becoming productive citizens," said Tim Decker, director of Missouri Division of Youth Services.

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  Tim Decker, director of the Missouri Division of Youth Services, said judges preferred to send youths to state facilities - Missouri Hills or the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center, with dorms that have wooden beds, male health and wellness classes, group counseling and game rooms - rather than dismal county lockups or to backlogged community programs.
  
  "Judges have more faith in us," Mr. Decker said. "So far we're O.K., but you can't do what we do with 25 kids in a group."
  
  Missouri Hills is clean and homey, with plush couches, stuffed animals on the bunks, and a dog rescued from the pound. The violence that plagues many juvenile prisons is also absent.
  
  In a typical juvenile corrections environment, Mr. Decker said, if a youth becomes aggressive "you would have guards drag him into isolation" for three days.
  
  "But," he added, "the problem is that a young person doesn't learn how to avoid that aggressive behavior and it will get worse."
  
  In Missouri Hills, isolation rooms were used only about a dozen times last year, Mr. Decker said, and never for more than a few hours.
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  Mr. Decker said that upgrading facilities and training new staff cost more initially, but that the reforms would reduce recidivism, which would result in long-term savings.
  
  VonErrick has been home for a few weeks, and his 18-year-old sister said he seemed calmer and less interested in running with the wrong crowd.

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  "It's an honor to receive the 2008 Annie E. Casey Innovations Award in Children and Family System Reform," said Tim Decker, director of the Division of Youth Services.

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  Let's find out how they got into this, and help them get out of it and lead productive lives," said Tim Decker, director of Missouri's Division of Youth Services.
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  Missouri's intensive counseling program is not necessarily cheaper than traditional lock-up programs, but with fewer than 8 percent of its graduates returning to the system, the state saves money in the long run, Decker said."You're not treating the same kids over and over," he said.

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  "What it really illustrates is how impulsive these kids are," said Tim Decker, director of Missouri's Division of Youth Services.

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  *Tim Decker, director of the Missouri Department of Youth Service (home to the famous "Missouri model";

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  "We really work on what does it take to have an environment where it is safe enough to share your deepest and darkest concerns and really be authentic," said Director Tim Decker, who took over the job in 2007 from the model's architect, Mark Steward.
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  In the early 1990s that board included then-Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr., who Decker said actively educated fellow conservatives about the humanity of the model — and its cheaper cost.
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  That's a potential setback that could be helped by more community involvement in these children's lives, Decker said.
  
  He said people needed to understand that Terrell was a judge's order away from hard time in an adult prison, and now he's a few months from starting college.

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