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May
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CJJ’s 2024 Annual Conference @ Grand Hyatt Washington
May 29 – Jun 1 all-day
CJJ's 2024 Annual Conference @ Grand Hyatt Washington

Each year, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) hosts a national conference focused on improving juvenile justice and delinquency prevention systems, services, practices, and policies. Last year, more than 500 juvenile justice practitioners and advocates from across the U.S. and its territories joined together for this unique event. The theme of this year’s conference is “CJJ’s 40th Anniversary: Engaging Youth to Turn Passion into Policy.” This conference will focus on the latest research, developments, and challenges facing our field today. Specifically:

  • How, as partners, do we reshape and ensure passage of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act?
  • How do we authentically engage youth and families with lived experiences and elevate their voices (i.e. in system transformation and SAG engagement)?
  • How can we restructure current policies and practices to ensure young people receive appropriate services and supports?
  • How can systems collaborate with one another to more holistically address young people’s needs?
  • How can we provide trauma-responsive care for children and youth?

To reserve your space at the conference, click here. To book your hotel room, click here.

REGISTER HERE

Responding to Prenatal Alcohol and Other Substance Exposures: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), Trauma, and Child Welfare
May 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Responding to Prenatal Alcohol and Other Substance Exposures: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), Trauma, and Child Welfare

This webinar will provide attendees with information about FASDs in child welfare systems. Attendees will learn how neurobehavioral functioning is impacted by prenatal substance exposure and traumatic experiences. The webinar will also highlight the prevalence of FASDs in foster care, the developmental challenges among these children, how adverse and traumatic experiences impact their development and behaviors and challenge identification, and how resilience and protective factors can help children and families thrive. Attendees will hear from a mother of an individual with an FASD who will share her healing experience and the importance of reducing stigma and bias and communicating with compassion.

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