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On April 17, 2017, Justice Lab students Sela Cowger, Kelsey Grimes, and Wesley Stevenson, along with YSRP Co-founder Lauren Fine, Commissioner of the Department of Human Services Cynthia Figueroa, and…

YSRP is honored to co-sponsor this event, organized by Councilmember Helen Gym. Young people will ask questions of the District Attorney candidates in the form of case scenarios, to avoid…

Join YSRP, the Stoneleigh Foundation, and Juvenile Law Center for the Philadelphia premiere of They Call Us Monsters, a groundbreaking documentary that explores the lives of three teenagers convicted of…

In an op-ed written for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE), Stoneleigh Foundation Senior Program Officer Marie N. Williams writes about the need for a more gender-responsive juvenile justice system ("Start Small: the Key to a More Gender-Responsive Juvenile Justice System").

YSRP Co-Director Joanna Visser Adjoian, and Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow Natasha Felder presented at Community College of Philadelphia (CCP)'s 2017 Law and Society Week.

On March 30, 2017, the Philadelphia Citizen published "We're Number One! Philly leads the nation in a dubious category: juvenile life without parole. Does it need to be this way?" Author David Love interviewed several of YSRP's partners and colleagues, and Co-Director Lauren Fine.

The Youth Advocacy Project, co-founded by University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice and Law School, raises awareness of issues confronting court-involved youth, and supports casework and policy efforts related to youth being charged in the adult criminal legal system.

Social Entrepreneur Podcast’s Tony Lloyd interviewed YSRP’s Co-Director Lauren Fine about YSRP’s work. Click to listen to the full 27-minute episode in which Lauren discusses YSRP's mission and innovative model.

YSRP Co-Directors Lauren Fine and Joanna Visser Adjoian co-authored an article entitled "Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Kent v. United States: Reflecting on the Prosecution of Children in the Adult…