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Youth for Justice's five national partners
American Bar Association Division for Public Education | Center for Civic Education American Bar Association Division for Public Education Overview: The American Bar Association Division for Public Education's goal is to institutionalize quality delinquency and violence prevention LRE programs, materials, and models in school, community, and juvenile justice-based settings. As part of the YFJ consortium, the Division develops curriculum and instructional materials; designs and delivers programs for youth; supports state and local LRE efforts; offers professional staff development for educators, lawyers, and juvenile justice professionals; and develops and delivers technical assistance to professionals involved in LRE work.
ABA Division for Public Education 321 N. Clark Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: (312) 988-5720 Fax: (312) 988-5494 E-mail: johnsonc@staff.abanet.org Overview: The Center for Civic Education (the Center) engages in research, development, and implementation of LRE at elementary and secondary levels and in the juvenile justice setting. The Center offers curriculum development in civic education, LRE for delinquency prevention, training, and technical assistance to a network of state LRE centers. Audiences: K-12 teachers and administrators, juvenile justice systems practitioners, judges, and law enforcement personnel. Services: Curriculum development for grades K-12, training and professional staff development for K-12 teachers and administrators and juvenile justice practitioners, technical assistance, summer institutes, information dissemination, and research and development for civic education and LRE. Website: www.civiced.org Contact:
Center for Civic Education 5145 Douglas Fir Road Calabasas, CA 91302-1440 Phone: (818) 591-9321 Fax: (818) 591-9330 E-mail: kean@civiced.org Constitutional
Rights Foundation Overview: Constitutional Rights Foundation and its affiliated office, Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, collaborate with the four other OJJDP national partners in implementing Youth for Justice by offering an array of LRE programs and activities for young people in their schools and communities with special emphasis on at-risk youth. Audiences: State LRE leaders, educators, law enforcement, attorneys, judges, young people, national and state leaders, and the public. Services: Training, infrastructure building, networking, needs assessment, planning, program development, program evaluation, and technical assistance in implementation. Websites: Constitutional Rights Foundation www.crf-usa.org; Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago www.crfc.org Contacts:
Executive Director Constitutional Rights Foundation 601 South Kingsley Drive Los Angeles, CA 90005 Phone: (213) 487-5590, ext. 103 Fax: (213) 386-0459 E-mail: todd@crf-usa.org Carolyn Pereira Executive Director Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago 407 S. Dearborn, Suite 1700 Chicago, IL 60605 Phone: (312) 663-9057, ext. 204 Fax: (312) 663-4321 E-mail: pereira@crfc.org Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center Overview: Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center trains lawyers, law students, judges, educators, and law enforcement officers interested in teaching youth about the law. It also provides lesson plans and program design for those interested in teaching about the law. Audiences: Youth, law enforcement, attorneys, law students, judges, and parents. Services: Technical assistance to state and local LRE programs, nationwide network of attorneys and law students to serve as resources, expertise for teachers on specific legal concepts, assistance in developing juvenile diversion programs, and assistance in adapting existing community programs for at-risk youth. Website: www.publicservicecenter.org Contact:
Executive Director Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center 345 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: 410-347-3118 Fax: 410-347-3119 E-mail: psc@pad.org Overview: Street Law develops powerful, innovative LRE programs that are used to teach young people in school, community, and juvenile justice settings about the law while helping them develop critical thinking, dispute resolution, and communication skills. All programs feature resource persons from the community and practical law and interactive lesson plans that focus on skill development. Specific juvenile justice programs have been field tested in diversion, detention, training school, and group home settings. School-based programs use the Street Law or Law in Your Life textbooks, afterschool programs use Community Works, conflict resolution programs use We Can Work It Out, and programs in juvenile justice settings use all these programs plus Save Our Streets (lessons about weapons, public policy, and dispute resolution). A special program has been developed for teen parents: Teens Parents and the Law (TPAL) with lesson handouts in English and Spanish. Street Law's youth advocacy program, YouthAct!, can be used in any of these settings. The following specialized lessons (in binders) have been developed: Street Law for School Resource Officers and Street Law for Juvenile Justice Programs. An adaptation of six episodes from the award-winning television series Homicide—Life on the Street is available as a video for classroom use with standards-based lesson plans. Audiences: Street Law's programs are designed for young people in school, community and juvenile justice settings, but they are delivered by school (and afterschool) personnel and juvenile justice agency education staff. In school settings, social studies teachers are typically the audience trained to deliver Street Law programs. Street Law also works with law enforcement personnel in each of these settings. In school settings these personnel are called School Resource Officers (SRO's). Services: Providing onsite training and technical assistance to help identify a specific LRE curriculum to best fit into an agency's educational program, further provision of training to organizations to enable them to deliver the program to young people, evaluation instruments available for some programs, and linking juvenile justice agencies to their state LRE center. Website: www.streetlaw.org Contact:
Director of U.S. Programs Street Law, Inc. 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 870 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: (301) 589-1130, ext. 230 Fax: (301) 589-1131 E-mail: larbetman@streetlaw.org
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