Trainings and Information Sessions
CfJJ offers trainings and information sessions as a part of our mission to educate the public on key juvenile and youth justice issues. These trainings and information sessions can be customized to meet the needs of youth, parents, community-based and grassroots organizers. Some of our options include standalone, one-time trainings on a particular issue or part of the system, or a series of advocacy trainings that leads up to a policy campaign or legislative meeting on a particular topic or issue. Download a detailed description of the trainings here.
Training Topics
Juvenile Justice 101
Explores how Massachusetts young people become involved with the juvenile justice system, how they move through it, and how different groups of young people are impacted by the decisions our system makes for them.
Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System
Explores how racial and ethnic disparities impacts a young person as they enter and exit the juvenile justice system.
Cradle to Prison Pipeline
Explores the factors from birth, childhood and adolescence - with a focus on the child welfare and education systems - that divert youth into the legal system.
Education and Trauma
Focuses on the factors that lead youth to go from being pushed along, excluded, and punished for behaviors related to trauma.
School Discipline and Advocacy
Informs youth or parents about their rights regarding the school discipline process and how to advocate and exercise those rights.
Special Education Law
Informs youth and parents about the legal protections and educational processes for students with disabilities under both Federal and Massachusetts Law.
School to Prison Pipeline
Learn about the two pipelines that combine to drive students out of the classroom, away from a pathway to success, and towards or into the juvenile or criminal justice system.
Bullying
Explores the impact of bullying on youth mental health, and how it increases the chances of system involvement. This training teaches participants about the legal protections students have against bullying and cyberbullying, including special protections for students with disabilities.
Police Encounters
Know your rights during encounters with local, state and federal police officers, including during a stop, search, or arrest.
Collateral Consequences
Outlines potential long-term barriers that can impact court-involved youth and how youth, parents, and advocates can break down those barriers.
Social Media and the Law
Informs young people or parents of the potential legal repercussions-including school discipline and juvenile/ criminal justice system involvement- that can arise through social media use.
Sexting: Legal, Social, Emotional, College and Career Implications
Informs young people or parents of the potential legal, social, emotional, college and career repercussions that can arise through the sharing of sexually explicit messages or photos through an electronic device.
Advocacy in Legislative Campaigns or Meetings
Supports and assists youth or parents identify issues that they care about, develop a policy position or campaign based upon their identified issue, and connect to relevant system decision makers where they can advocate their policy position.
Your Vote Matters!
This is a series of trainings and information sessions that informs young people about the value of their vote, and how they can help to increase the voter turnout rate in their community.
Protest and Civil Disobedience for Youth
Informs young people about their legal and constitutional rights under the First Amendment to peacefully assemble and express their views through protest and direct action.