Presidential Document2022-21787
National Youth Justice Action Month, 2022
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Published
October 5, 2022
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September 30, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 5, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21787]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 192 / Wednesday, October 5, 2022 /
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Proclamation 10462 of September 30, 2022
National Youth Justice Action Month, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Youth Justice Action Month, we recommit
to transforming our juvenile justice system, shifting
its focus from punishment to support--from the past to
the future. By investing more in all children's health
and well-being, our youth can build a foundation for
full lives and our whole country can benefit from their
unlimited potential.
Every child in America deserves a fair shot through
good schools, safe communities, and equal
opportunities. But some 36,000 young Americans remain
confined in juvenile residential facilities, too often
stuck in unsafe environments, facing adult charges or
severe sentences, and living with untreated trauma that
keeps them from moving forward. Young people of color
and young people with disabilities are
disproportionately affected. We are not giving
America's children the second chances they deserve. It
is time to rethink our system in order to better reach
the young people who need us most with guidance and
support to keep them from coming in contact with the
criminal justice system in the first place.
My Administration has invested historic amounts in
improving our youth justice system, increasing funding
for the Department of Justice's Juvenile Justice
Programs, which had seen sharp cuts. We have also
invested in schools, mentorship, and job training
programs, providing more than $120 billion of American
Rescue Plan funding to help schools safely reopen
during the pandemic, to hire more teachers and
counselors, to launch afterschool and summer tutoring
programs that help kids catch up, and to meet changing
mental health needs. My Administration more than
doubled funding for Full-Service Community Schools that
support students and their families outside the
classroom with important services like health care and
career counseling. We have launched a national
partnership to recruit 250,000 Americans to serve as
tutors and mentors and called on the Congress to fund
new programs that would turn juvenile detention
facilities into job-training centers. Once young people
come in contact with the justice system, we are working
to make sure they are treated fairly--boosting access
to lawyers who will fight for them and safely expanding
alternatives to incarceration, including intensive job
training and mentorship programs. Once they leave the
system, we are helping youth to find housing, jobs, and
other support. We are also urging States to expunge,
seal, or vacate juvenile records where appropriate so
more young Americans can move forward and build lives
of dignity and opportunity.
This month, I stand with youth justice advocates in
urging States and communities across the country to do
more to help every child realize their full promise. I
will never quit working to strengthen America's
commitment to justice and building a system focused on
redemption and rehabilitation, especially for our
children.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2022
as National Youth Justice Action Month. I call upon all
Americans to observe
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this month by taking action to support our youth and by
participating in appropriate ceremonies, activities,
and programs in their communities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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