Grace Bauer Presents to the National Center for Youth in Custody

On February 13, 2013, as part of their series on family engagement, Grace presented to over 300 juvenile justice system stakeholders during a National Center for Youth in Custody webinar. Zachary and Grace have been traveling across the country meeting with local partners and juvenile justice administrators.  Stay tuned for photos from our travels

Families Unlocking Futures Makes International Headlines

The report, Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice, produced by Justice for Families and our research partner, the DataCenter, continues to be read and reviewed by government officials from New England to New Zealand, by media outlets such as the Huffington Post in the US and Canada, by national and international leading sources of information and news on juvenile justice reform, and by families and allies from Alaska to Florida.  Below you will find photos of report release events. Click here to check out the press coverage.

Justice for Families National Report Released: September 10, 2012
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Check out Co-Director Grace Bauer blogging about the report on the Strong Families website.

The blog also appeared on the Momsrising site which has over a million members: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/walking-in-another-mothers-shoes/ 

Attorney General Eric Holder Makes Commitments to Families

 

Co-Director Grace Bauer was invited to present to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coordinating Council (“OJJDP”) on May 11th 2012 along with other families Sue Badeau and Grace Warren (Alliance for Youth Justice) and Shay Bilchik (Center for Juvenile Justice Reform).  Afterward, Grace Bauer along with a small number of family members spoke with Attorney General Eric Holder. The Attorney General agreed in principle to requests made by families and assigned his chief of staff as a point person to work with us on these efforts.  Grace Bauer and Grace Warren will be following up with his chief of staff.

Justice for Families Presents at JDAI Conference

Families from our local partners in Virginia, Louisiana, Illinois, New York and Texas joined us in Houston for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives (JDAI) Initiative Inter-site Conference. The JDAI Conference is one of the largest gatherings of juvenile justice professionals in the country and this year's conference attracted nearly 700 participants. 

 

Liane Rozzell, Ernest Johnson, Grace Warren, Jeannette Bocanegra and Tarsha Jackson participated on a plenary panel, moderated by J4F Co-Director Grace Bauer.  Our plenary panel both demonstrated and really drove home the importance of family involvement in the planning and treatment of individual children as well as in system reform and practice. 

 

The panel was reported on in “Youth Today” last Monday.  To read the article and see the families that spoke, click here: “Families Demand Say in ‘Dysfunctional’ System”