What are Youth Justice Initiatives?
CLIA created its Youth Justice Initiative to provide positive leadership experiences to teens that face the unfortunate reality of being involved in or highly at risk of involvement in the criminal justice system.
Youth Justice Workshops
Youth Justice Workshops teach youth how to advocate for themselves and integrate law-related and civics content with conflict resolution, anger management and leadership development. The workshop has served more than 750 youth over the past four years, and continues to make a positive impact at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center. CLIA is working to build on the success of the Workshops to create sustainable programs that engage youth from detention through return to the community. The CORPS Community Engagement Program and the Ready by 21 program are such initiatives. CORPS engages youth returned home from commitment in juvenile facilities in community service, civic engagement, and work readiness skill-building. Ready by 21 provides youth who are currently under the supervision of juvenile services and/or served by social services with concrete work readiness training, paid on-the-job experience, and self-advocacy skill-building.
Just Kids Partnership
CLIA is leading the effort to stop the automatic prosecution of youth as adults in Maryland as part of the Just Kids Partnership. CLIA's role is to organize youth, both in the community and in incarcerated settings, families and community members and to provide facts and analysis gathered through its years of engaging with system-involved youth.
For more information, please visit www.justkidsmaryland.org or visit our Facebook page
- CLIA successfully trained over 20 ex-juvenile offenders and placed them
in paid employment while working with them to develop their
leadership skills - Youth Justice workshops in the Baltimore City Detention Center were
credited with lowering violence rates by over 300% during a three-year
period
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