EAST NORRITON â A $30,000 grant from HealthSpark Foundation will go a long way in helping Mission Kids Child Advocacy Center get youth with problematic sexualized behaviors into specialized therapy instead of ushering them immediately into the justice system.
âWeâre so thankful to the HealthSpark Foundation for drastically changing our system and how we are responding to youths with problematic sexualized behaviors,â said Mission Kids Executive Director Leslie Slingsby. âWe used to, and we still do, put kids through juvenile court to get treatment. This new program and idea would revolutionize the system, where they would get treatment and their families would get treatment instead of actually going through the juvenile justice system.