Grand Island program keeps at-risk NE youth out of detention facilities
A Grand Island-based organization is offering a diversion program cited in a new report as one of the most effective with atrisk youths.
The intervention program is Multi-Systemic Therapy, or MST, which the Mid-Plains Center has offered for more than 20 years. In The Sentencing Project’s report, MST is identified as having contributed to the 75% decline in youth incarceration between 2000 and…