CONFERENCE TITLE
Reclaiming the Future: Uniting to End Disparities
DATES
Conference Dates – November, 27-30, 2018
LOCATION
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
700 Aliceanna Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
DESCRIPTION
Every two years, CJJ hosts a conference focusing specifically on the issue of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the juvenile justice system. These conferences give juvenile justice stakeholders from around the country an opportunity to share strategies and explore solutions to this serious problem. This year’s conference will bring together stakeholders working to fight disparities at the local, state, and national levels, as well as the larger juvenile justice community.
For more information about CJJ, please visit www.juvjustice.org.
CJJ’s 2018 National DMC Conference will focus on ways that young people and their communities, as well as law enforcement, court officials, advocacy groups, and State Advisory Groups can work together to combat racial and ethnic disparities (RED). Specifically, the conference will focus on:
What changes can be made at the system’s front end to reduce DMC?
How can youth advocates, law enforcement, attorneys, the judiciary, and community leaders work together to combat the crisis?
What role does data collection play in eliminating RED, and how can collection be improved?
The primary goal of CJJ’s 2018 National DMC Conference is to help system stakeholders--including policymakers and state DMC Coordinators--combat DMC through peer-to-peer learning, and expert training. Workshop sessions will provide participants a hands-on opportunity to explore solutions that have been shown to work in other jurisdictions.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
CJJ invites proposals for concurrent workshop sessions to be held Wednesday-Thursday, November 28-29, 2018. The Review Committee will select a maximum of 30 proposals for workshops.
CONTENT
Interactive workshops should be designed to last 60 minutes.