The Center for Justice Innovation—and our operating programs—are regularly featured in the media. Here is a sampling of the press coverage of our work.
The Daily News profiles a new program, operated by the Center for Courts and the Community, that seeks to reduce absences and tardiness among elementary and middle school students.
QUEST, which provides young offenders with an alternative to detention, is featured as an important element in New York City's efforts to keep low-risk offenders out of "high-risk situations." As the city's Criminal Justice Coordinator John Feinblatt explains in the NY1 story: "We won't allow dangerous kids to remain on the streets, but we also don't want to separate low-risk youth from their families and their schooling a day more than we have to."
The New York City affiliate of ABC spotlights the Brooklyn Mental Health Court's success in helping mentally ill offenders enter--and stay--in treatment.
Members of the Center for Court Innovation's Youth Justice Board have contributed momentum to a movement calling for more young people to participate in their own Family Court hearings, according to an article in City Limits Weekly.
