11 The elaboration of a public policy for children and teenagers that considers prevention, before repression, and a predominant educational purpose, that minimizes state intervention and that makes criminal reaction flexible and diversified, and that offers greater reflection and a multidisciplinary analysis is necessary. Specific measures are necessary, such as prioritizing social policy along with studies of the cost of violence, redistribution of wealth and an offer of a better work level for all and the possibility of healthy recreation for youngsters. 3) Expert witnesses proposed by the State a) Lolis María Salas Montes, attorney The State carried out an interinstitutional process of large dimensions that seeks to deepen the legislation regarding family and children matters, with the objective of overcoming the gaps, hiatus, contradictions, and legislative dispersion in this subject. It also seeks to update said legislation to the international instruments Honduras has signed. Among the actors that conform this initiative are The Supreme Court of Justice, the National Congress, the National Human Rights Commission, and the State Secretariat in the Offices of the Interior and Justice. A National Plan for the Attention of Children and Teenagers is being prepared, programmed to be executed in the period 2002-2010. Governmental sectors, the civil society, and non-governmental organizations were recently summoned in order to revise the mentioned Plan and improve the elaboration of the actions executed in the country in favor of children and teenagers. One of the great recommendations is directed to the inclusion of a new chapter on violence against boys, girls, and teenagers, which includes sections on child abuse, sexual abuse, and on maras or gangs. Another effort of the State was the intervention of the Honduran Institute for Children and Family (IHNFA) that motivated the conformation of an Intervening Commission to diagnose the reality of this Institute, of which the expert witness was a part from August 2003 to September 2004. This Intervening Commission prepared the Situational Diagnosis on the institutional scenario of the IHNFA and suggested strategies to achieve absolute respect of the superior interest of boys and girls. As a result, the State expanded the time period to appoint the Intervening Commission, time in which a series of actions were executed in order to ensure the protection of minors in situations of social risk and in conflict with the law, based on national legislation and international instruments on matters of children and teenagers. Likewise, an approach was achieved with all sectors of civil society and nongovernmental organizations to analyze the situation of the IHNFA and to know of both the work of the State and those sectors. The State has shown good will in collecting the national budgets in order to assign sufficient resources to attend the needs of the child and teenage populations in vulnerable conditions. The institutions with the responsibility of leading this matter must be located in the corresponding level given their fundamental importance and to receive the budget demanded. b) Ramón Antonio Romero Cantarero, Presidential Advisor in Security matters, former Consultant of the Interinstitutional