All children and youth deserve a fair chance.
At the Center for Children & Youth Justice (CCYJ), we’re changing the way young people experience the child welfare and juvenile justice systems—for the better. By listening to young people and working with partners across Washington State, we’re helping to redesign our child welfare and juvenile justice systems to meet children and youth’s unique needs.
CCYJ operates nearly a dozen programs that together address a wide array of issues critical to the wellbeing of children in our state. All of our programs focus on achieving better outcomes for children and families by facilitating collaboration among system stakeholders and others, providing training and technical assistance (TTA), and advocating for solutions that are data- driven and youth-centered. Wherever they work within Washington’s child-serving agencies, and whatever they do, the people charged with supporting our state’s most vulnerable children want to be more effective individually, at the organizational level, or both. CCYJ technical assistance, a targeted process offering organization level support to address a development need or problem, and CCYJ training, help service providers realize this aspiration.
Queer youth in the foster care and juvenile legal systems are under attack. Join us to unite, celebrate, invest and inspire each other into action to support the futures of system-impacted queer youth.
Join us for a night of resilience and joy on Thursday, May 29th from 7–9 PM
Update
On Tuesday, April 22, the Office of Justice Programs and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, part of the Department of Justice, immediately terminated over $4 million in CCYJ award funds for life-saving work in King County. Read on for information on why this work is important and CCYJ’s next steps.
The 2023 Results are In!
Check out CCYJ’s Impact Report, bringing to life the ways in which your investment takes our work where it is needed most.
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