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<strong>The</strong> Transformative Justice Project<br />

Eradicating Juvenile Delinquency Requires a Multi-Disciplinary Approach<br />

<strong>The</strong> Juvenile Justice system is incredibly<br />

overloaded, and Solutions-Based programs are<br />

woefully underfunded. Our precious children,<br />

therefore, particularly young people <strong>of</strong> color, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

get the “swift” version <strong>of</strong> justice whenever they<br />

come into contact with the law.<br />

Decisions to build prison facilities are <strong>of</strong>ten based<br />

on elementary school test results, and our country<br />

incarcerates more <strong>of</strong> its young than any other<br />

nation on earth. So we at <strong>The</strong> Foundation labor to<br />

pull our young people out <strong>of</strong> the “school to prison”<br />

pipeline, and we then coordinate the efforts <strong>of</strong> the<br />

legal, psychological, governmental and<br />

educational pr<strong>of</strong>essionals needed to bring an end<br />

to delinquency.<br />

We also educate families, police, local businesses,<br />

elected <strong>of</strong>ficials, clergy, and schools and other<br />

stakeholders about transforming whole communities, and we labor to change their<br />

thinking about the causes <strong>of</strong> delinquency with the goal <strong>of</strong> helping them embrace the<br />

idea <strong>of</strong> restoration for the young people in our care who demonstrate repentance for<br />

their<br />

mistakes.<br />

<strong>The</strong> way we accomplish all this is a follows:<br />

1. We vigorously advocate for charges reductions, wherever possible, in the<br />

adjudicatory (court) process, with the ultimate goal <strong>of</strong> expungement or pardon, in order<br />

to maximize the chances for our clients to graduate high school and progress into<br />

college, military service or the workforce without the stigma <strong>of</strong> a criminal record;<br />

2. We then enroll each young person into an Evidence-Based, Data-Driven<br />

Restorative Justice program designed to facilitate their rehabilitation and subsequent<br />

reintegration back into the community;<br />

3. While those projects are operating, we conduct a wide variety <strong>of</strong> ComeUnity-<br />

ReEngineering seminars and workshops on topics ranging from Juvenile Justice to<br />

Parental Rights, to Domestic issues to Police friendly contacts, to mental health<br />

intervention, to CBO and FBO accountability and compliance;<br />

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