Arrest, Conviction, Sentencing
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
The Annie E. Casey Foundation seeks to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. In 1992, it launched the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative program, a multi-year, multi-site project designed to demonstrate that jurisdictions can safely reduce reliance on secure detention. The Initiative works with system leaders across agencies to create better options for young people who do not require incarceration. This grant supports the expansion of this work.
The Congress Project
The Center is a public interest law and policy organization focused on reforming systems that affect troubled and at-risk children. This grant supports building the capacity of juvenile justice advocates and stakeholders to support the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Accountability Act and to promote other federal policy reform.
Juvenile Justice Advocacy and Support Project
The Center for Public Representation (CPR) is a public interest law firm that works on behalf of people with disabilities in communities and institutional settings. This grant supports CPR’s work with “Protection and Advocacy” agencies, a network of federally funded legal advocacy organizations in all 50 states, empowered by Congress to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. CPR’s work with P&A’s aims to improve services for youth in custody, but CPR’s ultimate goal is to encourage justice agencies to press for the diversion of young people with disabilities into community based programs.
Youth Corrections Policy Reform in California
Founded in 1976, Commonweal is a California-based research institute with programs dedicated to children and families, health, and the environment. It established a Juvenile Justice Program in 1982. This grant supports the Juvenile Justice Program's efforts to reduce the number of juveniles detained at the California Division of Juvenile Justice and promote restructuring of parole and reentry services.
Regional Youth/Adult Substance Abuse Program
Formed in 2001, the Alliance's mission is to promote a safe, effective, and equitable system of services designed to meet the needs of children and adolescents in or at-risk or becoming involved in the juvenile justice system. This grant supports the Alliance's efforts to advocate systemic reforms on the issues of disproportionate minority contact, adult waiver, and the decriminalization of youth.
Challenging Death in Prison Sentences for Children
Founded in 1995, Equal Justice Initiative is a private nonprofit law organization focused on U.S. criminal justice reform. This grant supports a new program working to reduce sentences of life without parole for crimes committed by 13- and 14-year olds and to establish new Eighth Amendment jurisprudence declaring such sentences to be cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional.
Founded in 2000, this statewide coalition includes state and local organizations, advocacy groups, legal educators, community service providers, and child advocates. The organization is dedicated to reforming the juvenile justice system by reducing Illinois' reliance on incarceration, promoting fairness for youth and developing an adequate range of community-based resources. This grant provides general operating support.
The Center is a public interest law firm dedicated to protecting and advancing children's rights in the public welfare and juvenile justice system. This grant provides operating support to deepen the Center's state-based work moving Pennsylvania toward policies and practices informed by principles of adolescent development.
Operation Redirect: Building a Safety Network for Our Youth
The Mental Health Association of Greater Houston is dedicated to promoting mental health and improving the care and treatment of persons living with mental illness. This grant, together with other private and public funds, supports the launch of a comprehensive system of services and interventions designed to keep youth with mental health needs out of the juvenile justice system.
Ranch Enhancement Program Phase II
The Santa Clara Department of Probation provides a wide range of administrative, court, investigative, detention, and supervision services for youth and adults. This grant augments county funds to hire the Missouri Youth Services Institute to support the development and state certification of a new training curriculum for the Department.
Juvenile Justice Project: Campaign to Close Youth Jails
The Correctional Association of New York is a non-profit organization advocating for a fair and humane justice system. This grant funds the Association’s efforts to support New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services to close six detention facilities and reinvest the savings in community-based and alternative-to-incarceration programs.
End Juvenile Life Without Parole Project
This grant supports the Law School's Human Rights Clinic to lay the groundwork for a ban on juvenile life without parole, by strengthening opposition to its use in human rights forums, and subsequently using this opposition in litigation to advocate for an end to the practice in the United States.
Juvenile Pre-Trial Services Planning Project
This grant supports a planning process for the implementation of a demonstration project to effect comprehensive reform of detention practices in New York City. The project will include family outreach, application of the risk assessment screening to match young people with appropriate alternative programs, and collecting juvenile justice data in a central location.
Criminal Justice Reform Initiative
YouthBuild USA is a national program that provides education, counseling, and job skills to unemployed youth. The organization is comprised of a network of 225 local YouthBuild programs serving about 8,000 youth annually. This grant allows YouthBuild to provide technical assistance to nine state coalitions to advocate for increased state-level funding to expand services for court-involved youth.
