This week's profile is the second in our series about
Justice alums working for the
Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) at the
McLaughlin Youth Center in Anchorage. This post highlights
Britney Olsen.
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Britney Olsen
Photo by Mike Dineen |
Britney Olsen, BA Justice '08, is a Juvenile Justice Officer III on the Transitional Services Unit at McLaughlin Youth Center (MYC). She got interested in criminology in high school, but developed a passion for working in the justice system when she settled on majoring in Justice at UAA. The best part of the job for her is “seeing youth making changes in their lives." And one of the biggest challenges is having enough time and resources with youth after their institutionalization to help support the changes they are trying to live when they return to their community.
Britney would recommend that today’s Justice majors learn Microsoft Excel, and take courses in counseling skills and any sort of mental health and substance abuse topics. When she is away from work, spending time playing in the Alaska outdoors with her husband and two children is her favorite thing to do.
