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Edwin was recruited into the Worcester Aftercare Program in April 2009.
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Scott Larson

Scott Larson is a gifted speaker with a passion for seeing Jesus Christ transform the lives of juvenile offenders.
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Dr. Scott Larson is president and founder of Straight Ahead Ministries,an international faith-based organization working with juvenile offenders in more than 400 juvenile detention centers in 14 states and three countries with a myriad of aftercare programs when youth return home.

Straight Ahead also provides mentoring programs and aftercare discipleship homes for youth after release from lock-up. The Larsons opened and lived in one of those discipleship homes with up to seven boys for nine years. The recidivism rate for youth going through that home was less than 10 percent.

Scott has been a speaker and trainer to those working with at-risk youth worldwide since 1986. He is also chairman of Reclaiming Youth International, a strength-based movement providing training and best practice models to programs serving high-risk youth around the world.

Scott has authored 10 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 (CUME).

Scott and his wife Hanne reside in Northborough, Massachusetts with their two children, Sarah and David.

Dr. Larson is as an approved trainer for the federal government's OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) Training and Technical Assistance program. Your organization may qualify to receive funding for having him present to your group.

Dr. Larson's topics include:

  • Teaching for Transformation rather than mere Rehabilitation
  • Resolving Conflict Creatively with High Risk Youth
  • Strength-based Discipline
  • Building a Strength-Based Program for High Risk Youth
  • The Spiritual Development of At-Risk Youth
  • Helping Peers to Reach Peers
  • The Resilience Revolution: Building on the Resilience of Today's Youth
  • Being a "Wounded Healer vs. an Unhealed Wounder"
  • "Response Ability Pathways: a new federally approved training for connecting with at-risk youth in transformational ways