A Year of Human Rights Covenants: Great Leap for Taiwan National Human Rights Commission, Taiwan ▋ 2022 Seminar on the Treatment Status, Reformation, and Outlook of Juvenile Reformatory Facilities. the Ministry of Justice, Department of Protective Services of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the Ministry of Education), National Taipei University, Judicial Reform Foundation, Prison Watch, experts, scholars, and interested parties (stakeholders) from different parts of society to review the treatment mechanisms of Taiwan’s juvenile reformatory facilities. Coinciding with MOJ’s notification of the establishment of the Regulations for Implementation of Treatment at Juvenile Reformatory Schools in February 2022, the seminar attracted much social attention. The seminar focused on three major topics: how to comply with the related human rights conventions and international standards, how to implement the idea of “education as the core of treatment”, and how to effectively promote and implement the transition mechanism of communities accepting rehabilitated youth. Mr. Tu Chi-hung, the principal of Ming Yang High School, also shared with participants the idea that the voluntariness of children is the core value of reformatory education on the ground that voluntariness breeds value which further builds self-confidence. Mr. Tu also emphasized that the goal of reformatory school is not academic achievement but students’ physical and mental accommodation. It is hoped the reformatory environment can make students feel accepted and cared for. According to Lin Wei-ting, a project researcher of the Judicial Reform Foundation, since MOJ has made frequent references to the Prison Act when drafting the Regulations for Implementation of Treatment at Juvenile Reformatory Schools, the draft naturally brings in the idea of “guard and control”. Lin recommended that treatment, education, and guidance should be the moving forces for making the reformatory school as a general educational institution. In addition to the transitional education plan of reformatory schools, rehabilitated youth rely more on the regular guidance and counseling services of teachers, mentors, psychologists, and social workers at school and the subsequent resource networks for effective inclusion in communities National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report 37