Red Deer Mountie honoured for work with at-risk youth

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Her work is part of the detachment’s Youth Intervention Team, a unit Superintendent Ken Foster says has dealt with more than 700 files since its inception last September.

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“The work Corporal Kay and her team do reduces repeat calls to police for service, and is vital in directing youth and their families to resources that can help break the cycles that lead to criminality,” he says.

The youth intervention team works with Crown prosecutors to obtain court-ordered mental assessments, recommend release conditions, enroll youth in the Alternative Measures Program and healing circles, and secure them admission to treatment facilities and re-locate them to appropriate homes.

In 2016, Kay solidified the RCMP’s relationship with a number of local organizations such as school boards, John Howard Society, Alberta Justice, Youth Justice Committee, Child and Family Services Agency, Alberta Mental Health, the Protection of Children Abusing Drugs program and the 49th Street Youth Shelter.

“The excellent work led by Corporal Kay and the Youth Intervention Team in supporting and diverting at-risk youth from the legal system has been recognized and commended by Alberta Justice officials, defence counsel, the Ministry of Children’s Services, and local Provincial Court judges,” adds Foster. “We’re proud to congratulate her on this well-deserved recognition of the great work she’s done.”