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StaffPatricia LeeSan Francisco Public Defender's Office - Juvenile Division PJDC Co-Director
Abigail Trillin
Dan Macallair
Brian Lambert
Advisory PanelEdmund Acoba, Hawaii Public Defender's Office (Hawaii)Carolyn Brown, Hawaii Public Defender's Office (Oahu) JoKamae Byrne, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii Elizabeth Calvin, Consultant, Founder and Former Director of Team Child Roger Chan, Alameda County Public Defender's Office Julie Croghan, Los Angeles Public Defender's Office Sharon Meadows, University of San Francisco School of Law Matthew Perantoni, Riverside Public Defender's Office Winston Peters, Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office Collaborative AgenciesCenter on Juvenile and Criminal JusticeCJCJ is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems. This is done through the provision of programs to persons facing imprisonment, education efforts, about imprisonment and its effect on people, and technical assistance to entities wishing to establish and/or evaluate programs working with those facing imprisonment. LSC provides free direct legal services to poor children and youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using an attorney-social worker team approach, LSC represents youth in the Juvenile, Probate, and Family Courts, and provides advocacy in guardianships, emancipations, conflict resolution mediation, and in hearings arising out of school discipline, special education entitlements, and others. San Francisco Public Defender - Juvenile Division SFPD Juvenile Division provides direct representation in delinquency matters to over 900 juveniles a year. The office seeks to address clients' behavioral, educational, and emotional needs and to help clients gain access to services that can substitute for or negate the perceived need for preventative detention and post-disposition incarceration.
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