Original upload date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 04:00:16 GMT
The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), the District of Columbia's cabinet-level juvenile justice agency, along with the Maya Angelou Academy, the school at New Beginnings Youth Develo
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pment Center, the District's secure facility for youth committed to DYRS, was featured on NBC's primetime newsmagazine show, Rock Center with Brian Williams. NBC's special correspondent, Chelsea Clinton, reported on the reforms that have taken place within the District's juvenile justice agency and the school at New Beginnings.
The segment, part of the NBC franchise Making a Difference, features two DYRS youth, DYRS staff and Maya Angelou Academy faculty and staff. The youth and staff speak to the personal and scholastic successes that the overall programming and school have had on the many youth that have passed through the doors.
During the show, NBC published a web essay by Chelsea Clinton and a video story in which Chelsea speaks to two DYRS staff: longtime maintenance employee Carl Matthews and former line staff now deputy superintendent of treatment, Lisa Anderson.
