The Restorative Justice Project

The Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice is a technical assistance project that partners with communities to address harm using restorative justice diversion programs.

Common Justice

Common Justice develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration.

Restorative Response Baltimore

Restorative Response Baltimore is a conflict resolution and community building organization that helps people to collectively prevent and resolve conflicts.

Breaking Down the Walls: Lessons Learned from Campaigns to Close Youth Prisons

The Ingredients of Social Courage with America Ferrera and John Paul Lederach

The Difference Between Allies and Co-Conspirators

Justice Ambassadors Youth Council: A Case Study

#NoKidsInPrison Experience

Disruptive Leadership

"Dream Boldly. Prioritize the Mission" with Vinnie Schiraldi

Teen and Youth Court: A Literature Review

Transforming Juvenile Probation: A Vision for Getting It Right

Funding & Procurement: A Critical Lever for Change

Literature Review: Racial Disparity in Juvenile Justice Processing

Expand the Use of Diversion From the Juvenile Justice System

How Jurisdictions Can Keep Youth Out of the Deep End of Local Juvenile Justice Systems

A Comparison of Risk Assessment Instruments in Juvenile Justice

Youth Data Update: Justice and Safe Communities

Exploring Data on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Incarceration

The Facts Report: The Geography of America's Youth Incarceration Complex

Five Domains of Wellbeing

Changing Organizational Culture

Sticker Shock 2020: The Cost of Youth Incarceration

Closing Youth Prisons: Lessons From Agency Administrators

Just Shut It Down: Bringing Down a Prison While Building a Movement

Community-based responses to justice-involved young adults

Place Matters: Aligning Investments in a Community-Based Continuum of Care

Promoting a new direction for youth justice: Funding a community-based continuum of care

Positive youth justice: Using positive youth development in justice interventions

Guide for implementing the balanced and restorative justice model

A framework for effectively partnering with young people

Community and the crime decline: The causal effect of local nonprofits on violent crime

What are community partnerships for protecting children?

How Incarceration Infects a Community

Youth voice as a strategy for systems change

Illinois-based Juvenile Justice CouncIl aims to improve the juvenile justice system

Team decision making: Engaging Families in Placement Decisions

Family engagement in the Juvenile Justice System

Building on Family Strengths for Better Outcomes

Measuring Racial Discrimination

Structural racism and youth development

What is racial equity? Understanding key concepts related to race

Adultification, anger bias, and adults’ different perceptions of Black and White children

Racial disparities in youth commitments and arrests

Why Youth Incarceration Fails: An Updated Review of the Evidence

System Transformation Through Community Leadership

Can we eliminate the youth prison? (and what should we replace it with?)

No Place for Kids by Patrick McCarthy

The Future of Youth Justice: A Community-Based Alternative to the Youth Prison Model

Youth Incarceration in the United States

Race Equity & Inclusion Action Guide: 7 Steps to Advance Racial Equity Within Your Organization

Identifying, Engaging, & Empowering Families: A Charge for Juvenile Justice Agencies

Engaging Families in Case-Planning

What is Racial Equity? Definitions & Examples

Advancing Youth leadership: An Evaluation of Youth First's Youth Leaders Network

Evidence2Success: Involving Communities in Assessing the Well Being of Youth

Moving Beyond Prisons: Lessons from NYC’s Implementation of Close to Home

Diversion: A Hidden Key to Combating Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice

Transforming Youth Justice

An introduction to the Taking on Transformation project and the Transforming Youth Justice Desk Guide.

Community Support for Youth

This webinar covered both the why and the how of having the most impacted youth and families leading transformation.

Shifting Resources to Communities

This panel discusses ways that youth justice systems can shift resources to community-led and -owned supports for young people.

Harnessing Data for Transformation

This panel discussed why data is so crucial to efforts to transform youth justice systems and some key ways that other leaders can use data (and how to do it).

Creating a Shared Vision

This webinar brought together speakers who have experience working with coalitions and across stakeholder groups to move transformation forward, and working with groups who have diverse backgrounds to create a shared vision for the future.

Centering Youth & Families

This webinar covered both the why and the how young people and their families most directly affected by the justice system must be central to any transformation efforts.

Racial Justice & Equity

The second webinar in the Taking on Transformation event series brings together system and community leaders to discuss the how and why of putting racial justice and equity at the heart of any movement to transform youth justice.

Setting the Stage

Kicking off the webinar series, this panel explores the role of system leaders in shifting away from punitive policies and incarceration and toward a more community-oriented vision of justice.

Shifting Resources to Communities

This topic explores how shifting resources to communities involves a review of funding to develop a continuum of community-based services and supports.

Shrinking Systems

This topic explores why shrinking systems requires system leaders partnering with key stakeholders and youth, families and their communities in order to reform policies and programs both internally and externally.

Change From Within

This topic explores why transforming youth justice requires change from within systems, taking steps to align culture, information, and processes with the long term vision.

Building Partnerships

This topic explores why partnerships and getting broad buy-in from an array of stakeholders is essential to any transformative system change.

Creating a Shared Vision

This topic explains the importance of bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders to develop a shared vision for youth justice.

Community Support for Youth

This topic explains why shifting the roles, responsibilities, and resources of justice work, from systems to communities, is critical in youth justice transformation.

Centering Youth & Families

This topic explores why, from the onset, young people and their families most directly affected by the justice system must be central to any transformation efforts.

Racial Justice & Equity

This topic explores why transformational change must begin with acknowledgement of institutional racism and past and current racial disparities, and a concerted effort to rectify.