America’s Youth Justice Story: A Brief Video Recap

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We at the Center for Youth Justice at Georgetown University and Youth Advocate Programs (YAP®), Inc. were so pleased to see so many of you on September 10th for our America’s Youth Justice Story: Unearthing the Past and Reimagining the Next Chapter. For those who were not able to make it, we hope this short video can give you a sense of the experience.

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. And anniversaries like this naturally invite us to tell stories about ourselves — about where we’ve been, who we’ve been, and who we hope to become. But telling our history honestly requires more than celebrating our accomplishments. It requires us to confront the parts of our story that are difficult. The people whose experiences have been overlooked. The voices that haven’t always been heard. And, in the case of youth justice, the children whose stories have sometimes quite literally been forgotten.The question we posed in planning this Forum is a simple one, but an incredibly important one:

What can we do to ensure that the tragedies of our past are not rewritten in the story of our future?

Thank you to all of the panelists, speakers, artists, and attendees who made the Forum such a special experience. We are moved and inspired by you. We want to especially thank the amazing duo of Maxwell II Maxwell who opened the Forum with a musical invocation, which can be heard in this video.

Learn more about them at: https://www.familyfirstmusicgroup.com/artists

The Forgotten Children: Mapping a National Legacy of Youth Who Died in Custody

Learn more about the new research brief released at the Forum:

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