Building Blocks for Youth: Project of the Youth Law Center
Building Blocks for Youth: Project of the Youth Law Center
1010 Vermont Avenue, NW
# 310, Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel: (202) 637-0377
Fax: 202 379-1600
www.buildingblocksforyouth.org
The Building Blocks for Youth initiative is working with a variety of organizations at the national, state and local level to develop focused constituencies for justice system reform. The effort involves outreach to civic, neighborhood, civil rights, religious, business, legal, medical, mental health, social work, child welfare, law enforcement, judicial, victims, corrections, women's, and media organizations.
The Building Blocks for Youth initiative has worked with state and local juvenile justice advocates on a number of youth justice campaigns, including efforts in Maryland, Louisiana, Georgia, South Dakota, California, New York, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia to close down large juvenile institutions; redirect funding to communities; end zero tolerance policies; stop the transfer of youth to the adult criminal justice system; and to increase youth, parent and community involvement in all aspects of decision making on juvenile justice.
