Improving Youth Interactions through Fair and Impartial Justice

Built on evidence-based principles to support an enhanced and increased understanding of youth interactions with the justice system.

Join us to gather tools to build strong youth relationships, enhance interactions with youth, and create effective interventions to divert at-risk and minority youth from the justice system offering an unmatched return-on-investment.

Upon completion of this training, you will be able to:
- Assess historical contributors that impact the justice system

- Distinguish the components of disproportionate minority contact, racial and ethnic disparity, and implicit bias and the impact of each on the justice system

- Identify strategies to reduce disparities

- Understand conscious and unconscious bias

- Recount risk factors that align with delinquent behavior

- Recognize the role and impact of traumatic events on youth development

- Identify de-escalation techniques and strategies to address fair and impartial justice

- Illustrate promising practices for diversion and community-based alternatives

- Understand the role of the justice system and community in strengthening relationships and improving youth-justice interactions and outcomes