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The Children's Defense Fund - New York is engaged in a multi-year, broad scale effort to transform the current New York juvenile justice system from one that relies on incarceration as the primary response to one where community-based intervention and treatment programs are so prevalent that society considers these programs to be the norm rather than as an "alternative" for young people who come in conflict with the law. New York is at a critical moment in which there is both the urgent need for change in order to guarantee better outcomes for our youth and the opportunity to accomplish meaningful reforms. With the momentum of the Governor's Task Force report and the U.S. Department of Justice report, and the leadership at the state and city level, we must take action now. To learn more about this effort and the work already underway, please click here. CDF-NY Hosts Briefing with Key Juvenile Justice Leaders On January 29, 2010, we hosted a briefing at the Robin Hood Foundation with key juvenile justice and youth funders. The purpose of the briefing was to highlight the unprecedented moment of great need and opportunity we are facing in New York and to bring the philanthropic community together to join and support the efforts to transform the juvenile justice system. New York State Commissioner Gladys Carrion and New York City Commissioners John Mattingly and Vincent Schiraldi all spoke about the urgent need to transform the system and the commitment they each have to move away from an expensive and ineffective system that focuses on incarceration to a more effective and less expensive local community-based system. Click to read our recent testimony to the New York City Council: http://www.cdfny.org/images/stories/pdf/jj/acs-djj_merger_testimony_final_2-16-10.pdf Links Resources New York State Data and Information Articles About DC Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) - Four Programs are Award Semifinalists (The Washington Post, April 18, 2008)
- Mental Health Issues Burden the Juvenile Justice System, Patrick Kennedy (Corrections Today, Dec. 07)
- Maya Angelou: The Future, Not Past, Is What Counts, Poet Advises Oak Hill Center Youths (The Washington Post, May 1, 2009)
- Corrections Forum article (Spring 2009) about new DC juvenile facility
- Moving the Chains At Oak Hill (The Washington Post, November 23, 2006)
- School of Second Chances (The Washington Post Magazine, April 12, 2009)
- The Right Moves (The Washington Post, December 6, 2008)
- Young Inmates Strut Their Hour Upon the Stage (The Washington Post, March 15, 2007)
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