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Here’s Why It’s So Important to Create Opportunities for Youth Voices to Be Heard

By Jaclyn Cirinna | January 15, 2020

Speaking as a formerly incarcerated youth, my passion is to educate others on the importance of youth voice. We know it is essential to move juvenile justice reform forward, but we need to start implementing it in every sense of the word.

Probation: 2 young men sit on bench against wall; one wears denim shorts, black shoes, olive jacket and looks down; the other wears cuffed jeans, dark shoes, white T-shirt under open brown flannel shirt and green cap, has mustache.

To Understand Probation, Youth Need Other Youth Who Have Been Through It

By William Siffermann | March 26, 2018

The deliberative portion of juvenile court proceedings focuses intently upon the “actor,” or minor respondent, once the facts of the “act” have been adjudicated by an affirmative plea or after a trial where a finding of delinquency has been entered.

Seven people, both male and female, white and people of color, sit around white table talking. Another building can be seen via large window.

Youth Who Help Reformers Must Be Treated As Partners, Not Tokens

By Marie N. Williams | January 2, 2018

Policymakers, practitioners and advocates seeking to improve the juvenile justice system have increasingly acted on calls from youth and their families to make “no decisions about us, without us.”