"We can talk about doing interventions while the kids are at the front end of the system, where it's going to be relatively low cost and where we can get some treatment and services into these children and families…Or we can wait until they go to our juvenile rehabilitation facilities and eventually into our adult facilities or into our adult mental health facilities. There's a cost to the community. Our kids are in trouble. We can either try to remedy it at the front end or remedy at the back end. We're still going to have to pay for it."
