North Minneapolis nonprofit The Link partnering with Hennepin County under new juvenile justice policy

In days, Hennepin County, Minnesota, will start its new juvenile justice policy .

Under the new policy, Hennepin County prosecutors will screen every youth crime case for diversion programs to offer more options outside of court.

To help manage the expansion, county officials are partnering with local providers in the metro, like The Link.

Since the early '90s, The Link, a north Minneapolis nonprofit, has been helping teens and keeping them out of the juvenile justice system.

Beth Holger leads the team and believes early intervention is the key to saving young lives. She says internal data shows the early intervention programs they run have seen success.

"If we are finding that diverting young people from prison to program at The Link and two years later, 87% of teenage boys did