The LINC Conference, hosted by the Center for Children & Youth Justice, focuses on bringing together experts from across King County and beyond representing systems and communities, such as education, the juvenile and adult legal system, and community outreach and mentoring organizations. The goal is to create a space for building tools to equip systems and community partner organizations that work with young people impacted by community violence and the juvenile legal system in their pursuit of successful life transformation.
The Center for Children & Youth Justice founded Leadership, Intervention & Change Program, or LINC, in 2011 as a community-wide, multi-disciplinary effort to reduce individual Group/Gang involvement and community violence among young people in King County, Washington. LINC uses the US Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Comprehensive Gang Model as a framework. In collaboration with community partners from the areas of street outreach, juvenile justice, and education, LINC works with up to 200 young people annually who are involved with or at risk of being impacted by violence. The Center for Children & Youth Justice convenes and facilitates LINC partners, staffs the multi-disciplinary teams that directly support young people, and hosts the annual LINC conference.
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