Registration Closing: CJJ's 2022 Youth Summit |
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Registration closes Friday for this year's Youth Summit! Don't miss the chance to join the Coalition for Juvenile Justice for the 2022 Youth Summit in Tacoma, Washington!
The Youth Summit is hosted annually by CJJ's Emerging Leaders Committee. This year's theme is "From the Past, Here in Our Present, Into the Future: Cultivating Youth and Legal System Change."
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The Youth Summit will take place Aug. 1-2 at the Hotel Murano in Tacoma, Washington.
To view a draft of the agenda, click here.
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Late Registration
CLOSING JULY 22nd
CJJ Youth Member - $105
CJJ Youth Non-Member - $115
Adult chaperones - $210
Virtual - $45
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Register for the 2022 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Conference |
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From Nov. 1-2, 2022, CJJ will host its 2022 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Conference in Louisville, Kentucky at the Omni Louisville. This year's theme will be "Removing the Blindfold: Investing in Young People, Communities and Healing."
To register, click here. To view a draft agenda click here.
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Keynote Speaker
KRISTIN HENNING is a nationally recognized advocate, author, trainer, and consultant on the intersection of race, adolescence, and policing. She is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law and was previously the Lead Attorney of the Juvenile Unit at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she has been representing children accused of crime for more than twenty-five years. Henning is the co-founder of a number of initiatives to combat racial injustice in the juvenile legal system, including the Ambassadors for Racial Justice program and a Racial Justice Toolkit for youth defenders. She is also the recipient of many awards, including the 2021 Leadership Prize from the Juvenile Law Center. Henning has written numerous articles and other publications advocating for reform in the juvenile legal system. Her book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, was just released in September 2021 and has already received rave reviews in the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post.
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Workshop Proposals Now Accepted
CJJ is currently accepting workshop proposals for the 2022 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Conference. To learn more about workshop topics and selection criteria, click here. To submit your proposal, click here.
Proposals are due August 1, 2022. For additional information, please contact Ridha Kapoor at kapoor@juvjustice.org.
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Andrew Smith Award
Nominate a State Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator for this year's Andrew Smith Award. This award is given annually to honor Andrew Smith, a former Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coordinator, who went above and beyond in his work to address disparities in the youth justice system. Nominations are now open and can be submitted here.
Nominations are due Sept. 1. For questions, please contact Naomi Smoot Evans at evans@juvjustice.org.
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Would You Like to Blog for CJJ? |
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CJJ is looking for bloggers for CJJ Today to author stories and posts about juvenile justice. We're particularly interested in stories from State Advisory Group members or staff, CJJ individual or youth members, and CJJ organizational members, about issues at the state or local level, interesting programs or approaches, and perspectives about the course of juvenile justice reform at the local or state level. We also welcome blog posts from other juvenile justice system stakeholders. Blog posts can be between 400-750 words in length. Click here to see our other guidelines for blogs.
Suggested topics could include:
- School to Prison Pipeline;
- Girls in the Juvenile Justice System;
- Remedying Racial and Ethnic Disparities;
- Adolescent Brain Development;
- Evidence-Based Practices;
- Status Offenses;
- Family and Youth Involvement; or
- Promising Practices or Program Spotlights.
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Member Spotlight: Washington |
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Washington State Juvenile Justice Data Dashboard Initiative
In Washington State a collaborative partnership between the Office of Juvenile Justice, Partnership Council on Juvenile Justice, and the WA Center for Court Research has resulted in a statewide juvenile justice data dashboard initiative. The initiative aims to fill an important gap in knowledge of the juvenile justice system and help with the larger work of comparing decision point data in order to understand where disparities increase and decrease. The state anticipates that the initiative will include linked dashboards on: arrests, court filed diversions, court processing stages (e.g., referrals, cases, and adjudications), detention admissions, and recidivism. In July 2022 Washington will launch the initiative with law enforcement data because arrest represents the entrance into the justice system for the majority of youth. Prior to this effort, there was no single, accessible source to examine disparities in Washington State juvenile arrest data. The arrest data dashboard serves as a useful tool for governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as local law enforcement agencies to analyze trends of youth arrest and identify specific areas where changes in policy and practice are necessary and possible.
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Other News and Announcements |
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Events and Trainings
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The National Partnership for Juvenile Services will host its 28th National Symposium on Juvenile Services on September 27th to 30th. Register here.
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The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), through the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), is pleased to announce a series of three webinars on key probation practice changes that judges can provide important leadership on. These practices are set forth in the publication: The Role of the Judge In Transforming Juvenile Probation: A Toolkit for Leadership. The webinars will be conducted at the following times:
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Probation as a Disposition for Youths with Serious Offenses Histories - August 11, 2022 (10:00-11:15 am PT). To register for this webinar, click here.
- Feeling the need to recharge, network, and gain a renewed outlook on youth justice advocacy? Take a roadtrip with National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) this summer!
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Join us on a virtual journey to visit your NJJN family in each region of the United States July 25th through July 29th. Each day NJJN will stop to check in with our regional representatives where we will share in the struggle and engage in member designed creative content. Members can register here. Registration is also open for the public here.
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New Publications and Resources
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Strengthening Families with Infants and Toddlers: A Policy Framework for States, is a new report from ZERO TO THREE designed to reframe the role of child welfare from preventing harm to children toward strengthening families and the communities where they live. The policy framework includes 11 recommendations for states and communities that aim to advance equitable outcomes supporting the health and well-being of very young children and their families, including those who are in or are at risk of entering the child welfare system.
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CJJ invites you to share news from your SAG, organization, state, or region! Inclusion and editing of submissions are subject to CJJ editorial guidelines. |
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The Juvenile Justice Monitor is brought to you by staff and volunteer leaders of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, and supported by membership fees paid by CJJ's State Advisory Group Members, Members at Large, Organizational Members, and allies. We are grateful to all for their ongoing support.
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
1629 K Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006-1631
(202) 827-9751
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