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YOUTH

TRANSFORMING

JUSTICE

Ending the school-to-prison pipeline through peer-driven, restorative, and trauma-informed solutions

50k

incarcerated youth in the U.S.

$5B

spent a year on confining youth nationwide

75%

juvenile recidivism rate nationwide

6%

juvenile recidivism rate in YTJ Peer Solutions

OUR MISSION

We believe the best way to end the school-to-prison pipeline is to transform traditional, punitive school discipline and juvenile justice systems into restorative, trauma-informed, and peer-driven solutions where youth can reflect and learn from mistakes, repair damage and relationships harmed, and move forward successfully.  

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Working in collaboration with youth, schools,  community organizations, and county probation departments, we envision safer communities where youth stay in school, schools cultivate a greater sense of personal connection, safety, and accountability, and youth exercise authentic agency in their lives and neighborhoods.

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Change a Young Person's Future

Make sure every young person who makes a bad decision has the opportunity to repair
damage and learn from their mistakes.

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

Volunteer. Advocate. Donate. 

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

 -Buckminster Fuller

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