Group Project Ideas by Laura Ridolfi

2025-09-06 16:22:50 UTC

Policy Brief: National standards for youth justice data publication. Balancing confidentiality protections and transparency

Policy Brief: Juvenile Justice Commissions (JJCs)

2025-09-06 16:25:16 UTC

Diversion programs

2025-09-11 02:53:08 UTC

Are there diversion programs with a treatment-based model that have been effective?

(open to format input)

Presentation: intersection of disability and incarceration (historical intersection and today's impact)

2025-09-11 02:59:10 UTC

Cultural Competency & Trauma-Informed Training

2025-09-11 02:59:27 UTC

Developing a framework for attorney/youth court system actors training on interviewing and engaging with youth that is both trauma-informed and culturally responsive. This could draw on the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) studies, research cited in Roper’s amicus briefs about child development, our readings (especially where it concerns relationships with caregivers and adult authority figures), and pop culture (for example, a glossary of terms or events/concepts youth frequently use or cite).

Presentation: Intro to abolition

2025-09-11 03:00:47 UTC

Privacy and Adolescent Development

2025-09-11 03:00:55 UTC

Explore the developmental need for privacy for adolescents, how incarcerated youth's privacy is commonly violated, and how we might be able to change it.

Possible formats could include policy briefs or trainings.

School policing

2025-09-11 03:01:01 UTC

Analysis of the impact of police officers in schools. (Policy brief- school boards as audience?)

Policy Brief

2025-09-11 03:01:06 UTC

Researching county by county visitation policy for juvenile hall + proposed changes/streamlining (thinking who can visit, when can they visit, conditions of visits, etc.)

Policy Brief: Interested in the rights for pregnant and parenting youth justice data compared to adults - would consider focusing just on CA or doing a survey of states

2025-09-11 03:01:37 UTC

Training for Educators

2025-09-11 03:01:54 UTC

implementation of restorative justice practices in schools (preventing police contact/presence in schools)

Know Your Rights Workshop for Teens

2025-09-11 03:02:02 UTC

workshop teaching youth about their rights during police encounters, interrogations, or school discipline proceedings

Training: Competency

2025-09-11 03:02:21 UTC

A training for youth defenders in what the standard is for competency to stand trial, how to recognize when a youth may be incompetent, how to argue regarding incompetence, and what the consequences of a youth being found incompetent are

2025-09-11 03:02:47 UTC

Policy Brief (or Legislation?): Residential programs for youth who have no stable home or family placement - comparative research project looking at solutions from other countries or jurisdictions and issues/strengths of these other approaches

Restorative Justice Circle Simulation

2025-09-11 03:02:58 UTC

Restorative circle around a youth offense to demonstrate alternatives to punishment

Presentation

2025-09-11 03:03:19 UTC

Training presentation that focuses on the ethical duty to keep clients informed, specifically on the significant racial disparities and bias that may affect youth of color in their cases.

2025-09-11 03:03:45 UTC

Policy brief: Young adult courts — treating 18-25 year olds in a rehabilitative system, not the criminal system

Youth Justice Code updates

2025-09-11 03:07:40 UTC

further incorporating community-based and public health related concepts and requirements and defining what those look like/what actors should be involved and how

deliverable: development piece of legislation presentation / amendment

Participatory defense

2025-09-11 03:10:37 UTC

policy brief / synthesis of the impacts/hopes of participatory defense, kinds of evidence supported, scaling, and structured support from different actors / child-supporting institutions