Story: Youth offenders

Award winner

Award winner

In 2007, the American Humane Association presented New Zealand with an award to mark the success of the family group conference system. Roy Ferguson, the New Zealand Ambassador to the United States of America and Marie Connolly, the chief social worker at Child, Youth and Family (now Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children), hold the trophies.

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Gabrielle Maxwell, 'Youth offenders - Programmes for young offenders', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/26615/award-winner (accessed 19 March 2024)

Story by Gabrielle Maxwell, published 5 May 2011, updated 1 Aug 2017