{"id":1414,"date":"2023-01-25T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:43:26","slug":"pace-center-for-girls-a-resource-for-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/pace-center-for-girls-a-resource-for-families","title":{"rendered":"Pace Center for Girls, A Resource for Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A desk in Judge Baker&#8217;s courtroom can be seen covered in pamphlets pointing to places families can turn for help, like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/\">Pace Center for Girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are a prevention and early intervention program for girls middle and high school aged girls that are at risk of systems involvement,&#8221; Jodi Stevens said as Director of Government Affairs for Pace Center for Girls. &#8220;We provide the full academic school day and wrap around social services.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC27 also spoke with Pace executive director Kristel Avilus, who said the young girls in the program &#8220;come disheartened, they come broken. They come feeling like they&#8217;re a failure. And, as a former Pace girl myself, I was in that situation. &#8230; But when I left here, I left with advocacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/news\/local-news\/judge-tiffany-baker-carper-to-speak-on-juvenile-justice-during-hot-topic-discussion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Source<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are a prevention and early intervention program for girls middle and high school aged girls that are at risk of systems involvement,&#8221; Jodi Stevens said as Director of Government Affairs for Pace Center for Girls. &#8220;We provide the full academic school day and wrap around social services.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"post_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}