juvenile justice
YouthAction Community Leadership Course Youth Justice in NYC
During the 10-week program, YouthAction Community Leadership Course participants meet once a week after school to research and analyze youth issues and to develop policy and budgetary recommendations to improve the lives of young people in New York Cit …
Honor the Victims of the Youth Justice System Through Continued Advocacy
We are thinking of Kalief Browder and his family. In 2010, Kalief was detained at Rikers Island at 16 while awaiting trial. He was wrongfully accused of stealing a backpack – a charge that was eventually dropped in 2013. For three years, Kalief as a te …
TESTIMONY: OVERSIGHT: Trauma-Informed Services In The Juvenile Justice System
On November 28, 2017, CCC testified before the New York City Council Juvenile Justice Committee at an oversight hearing about trauma-informed services in the juvenile justice system. CCC’s testimony the impact of trauma; the high prevalence of exposure …
CCC Testimony: Implementation of Close to Home for Non-Secure Placements
CCC submitted testimony about the City’s implementation of the Close to Home for non-secure placements, and made recommendations for continued progress in reforming the juvenile justice system, at a New York City Council joint Juvenile Justice and Gene …
Raise the Age Fact Sheets
CCC is part of a Campaign urging the State to Raise the Age of criminal responsibility in New York. Currently, New York is one of only two states (the other is North Carolina) that treats all children as adults in the criminal justice system once they …
New York State Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Hearing on the New York State Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Human Services Executive Budget Proposals
CCC submitted testimony about the impact the Governor’s Executive Budget would have on children and families at the February 5, 2013 joint Senate/Assembly Hearing on the Executive Budget for State Fiscal Year 2013-2014. CCC’s testimony commended propos …
