About YLOTEver since its founding in 1993, Young Ladies of Tomorrow, Inc. (YLOT) has worked with preadolescent and teenage girls (ages 9 - 17) who have encountered the juvenile justice system. In hopes of redirecting their course toward meaningful and productive futures, YLOT offers counseling, therapeutic recreation, job training, mentorship, and other services/opportunities for its participants. When a girl comes to YLOT, our first objective is to identify the root of her "issue." Through relevant, creative, and personalized potential solutions, YLOT helps each participant work through prior emotional and/or physical abuse, intimacy with street life, teen pregnancy, addiction, or poor self-esteem. YLOT seeks to reduce recidivism, detention rates, and the number of program participants receiving referrals for service in the juvenile justice system. |
Our National Outlook
Between 1992 and 1996, the number of female juveniles arrested for violent crimes increased 25 percent ... arrests of male juveniles for the same offenses in the same period did not increase at all.
Juvenile Justice Journal: Investing in Girls: A 21st Century Strategy. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice.(1999)
Research demonstrates that girls in the delinquency
system have histories of physical, emotional, and
sexual abuse; have family problems; suffer from
physical and mental disorders; have experienced
academic failure; and succumb more easily to the
pressures of domination by older males.
Justice by Gender: The Lack of Appropriate
Prevention, Diversion, and Treatment Alternatives for Girls in the Justice System.
American Bar Association and the National Bar
Association. (2001)
D.C. Board of Parole (1994)
For more information on girls in the juvenile justice system,
visit http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/issues/girls/studies.html.
