MARCH Program

In his ongoing mission to reach young people, Sheriff Bellotti runs the Managing At-Risk Children (MARCH) program in the City of Quincy. The program identifies and helps troubled children before they develop problems with drugs and criminal activities.

The goal of the program is to reduce juvenile delinquency in Quincy through community-based services that provide individual attention to at-risk youth.

MARCH is a collaboration with Quincy Police, Quincy Public Schools and other public agencies whose aim is to help troubled youth. Children are identified at confidential monthly roundtable meetings where caseworkers share information about specific youth in the community and make referrals.

With the cooperation of parents and family, those children are enrolled in the MARCH program, which includes a "holistic," family-approach to counseling with a certified therapist, a tour of the Norfolk County Correctional Facility (if recommended), interaction with "peer-educator" inmates (if recommended), an eight-week counseling program and a therapist-designed post-counseling treatment plan that connects the child with appropriate community services.

For more information about the MARCH Program, please call the Sheriff's Youth Division at 781-751-3577.

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