CHICAGO – Lake Countys Juvenile Probation and Detention Services will have foreign visitors later this week.
On Friday, two doctoral students from Ethiopia will be visiting and touring the juvenile facilities to learn more about how the systems operate, with the hopes of improving juvenile services in their home country.
The two students, who are enrolled at the Graduate School of Social Work at Addis Ababa University, are visiting Chicago as part of a one-month teaching and learning exchange, according to the 19th Judicial Circuit.
On Friday, the students, along with a professor from Addis Ababa, will be in Lake County to learn more about how juvenile courts and detention facilities operate and also develop an ongoing exchange of information and ideas in the area of children in conflict with the law.
Ethiopia has only one child detention facility and it is located in Addis Ababa, the capitol city, while children in other locations are incarcerated with adults.