Dr. Scott Larson: From Lock-up to Leadership: Juvenile Justice

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Dr. Scott Larson

From Lock-up to Leadership

Juvenile Justice

The Background

Dr. Scott Larson is president and founder of Straight Ahead Ministries, an international faith-based organization working with juvenile offenders in more than 300 juvenile detention centers in 15 states and five countries with a myriad of aftercare programs when youth return home.

Scott has authored 13 books on working effectively with troubled youth and has been a speaker to youth, parents, teachers, social workers and youth workers since 1983, and is an adjunct professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for Urban Ministerial Education, and Gordon College.

He is also the co-founder of the Every Youth, Every Facility initiative, focused on partnering with ministries to reach every youth in the 1,200 juvenile detention centers in the U.S.

Scott and his wife Hanne reside in Worcester, Massachusetts.