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Transforming
Youth Justice
Community Support
for Youth
Change
from Within
RACIAL JUSTICE
AND EQUITY
CREATING
A SHARED VISION
SHRINKING
SYSTEMS
Centering youth
and families
BUILDING
PARTNERSHIPS
Shifting Resources
to Communities
Taking on Transformation is a project of the Columbia Justice Lab’s Youth Justice Initiatives. It is a hub for system leaders, and anyone making decisions about youth justice, who are pushing for real transformation of the youth justice system.
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Explore panel discussions on the topics and issues most relevant to transforming youth justice systems will give real-time access to experts, allow engagement with the community we are building, and elevate diverse voices.
SETTING THE STAGE
FOR TRANSFORMATION
Kicking off the series, “Setting the Stage” explores the role of system leaders in shifting away from punitive policies and incarceration and toward a more community-oriented vision of justice.
RACIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY
The second webinar 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.
CENTERING YOUTH & FAMILIES
This third panel discussion in this event series covers both the why and the how of having the most impacted youth and families leading transformation.
CREATING A SHARED VISION
This panel brought together speakers with experience working across stakeholder groups to move transformation forward, and working with diverse groups to create a shared vision for the future.
HARNESSING DATA FOR TRANSFORMATION
This panel discussed why data is so crucial to efforts to transform youth justice systems and the way we think about justice for young people, and some key ways that leaders can use data (and how to do it).
SHIFTING RESOURCES
TO COMMUNITIES
This panel brought together a group of experts to discuss ways that youth justice systems can shift resources, especially financial, to community-led and -owned supports for young people.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
FOR YOUTH
The final panel in this event series brought together a group of experts to discuss ways that youth justice systems can shift resources, especially financial, to community-led and -owned supports for young people.
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