Hidden Unemployment

The Transformative Justice Project
Eradicating Juvenile Delinquency Requires a Multi-Disciplinary Approach
The Juvenile Justice system is incredibly
overloaded, and Solutions-Based programs are
woefully underfunded. Our precious children,
therefore, particularly young people of color, often
get the “swift” version of justice whenever they
come into contact with the law.
Decisions to build prison facilities are often based
on elementary school test results, and our country
incarcerates more of its young than any other
nation on earth. So we at The Foundation labor to
pull our young people out of the “school to prison”
pipeline, and we then coordinate the efforts of the
legal, psychological, governmental and
educational professionals needed to bring an end
to delinquency.
We also educate families, police, local businesses,
elected officials, clergy, and schools and other
stakeholders about transforming whole communities, and we labor to change their
thinking about the causes of delinquency with the goal of helping them embrace the
idea of restoration for the young people in our care who demonstrate repentance for
their
mistakes.
The way we accomplish all this is a follows:
1. We vigorously advocate for charges reductions, wherever possible, in the
adjudicatory (court) process, with the ultimate goal of expungement or pardon, in order
to maximize the chances for our clients to graduate high school and progress into
college, military service or the workforce without the stigma of a criminal record;
2. We then enroll each young person into an Evidence-Based, Data-Driven
Restorative Justice program designed to facilitate their rehabilitation and subsequent
reintegration back into the community;
3. While those projects are operating, we conduct a wide variety of ComeUnity-
ReEngineering seminars and workshops on topics ranging from Juvenile Justice to
Parental Rights, to Domestic issues to Police friendly contacts, to mental health
intervention, to CBO and FBO accountability and compliance;
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