Blog May 18, 2018
Leadership through Adversity
Cristian Franco, a youth mentor and community advocate, discusses the power of sharing your story and the ways the Next Generation Fellowship helped as he shaped his own.
Dr. Young-Alfaro’s recent study, which follows ten young adults attending college after incarceration, finds college success linked to participation in student-led groups and activism.
Blog May 10, 2018
From Sitting in Detention to Standing in Culture
2017 Next Generation Fellow, Brayan Pelayo, shares his journey from childhood to community leadership. Brayan works to help transform the justice system into one that provides structural opportunities for racial equality and social justice.
Cameo House upgrade project will bring CJCJ programs together, new fact sheet finds local juvenile facilities can absorb state system, and CJCJ youth joins peers at San Francisco’s Youth Advocacy Day.
CJCJ Senior Research Fellow Mike Males pens an Op-Ed on decreased gun violence among youth in major cities across the U.S. amid the nation’s continued atrocities of gun violence and mass shootings.