The CFCC’s 2024 Symposium, “Keeping Youth in Community: Policies, Practices, and Programs to Promote Youth Justice,” aimed to center the conversation about youth justice around data, humanity and community. The courts have consistently affirmed that the goal of the youth justice system is rehabilitation. Reforms that advanced the rehabilitative goal have led to a long…
By Arion Alston Working with middle school students and young adults for the Art and Poetry Showcase was a considerably rewarding and educational experience for me. The five middle school students I had the privilege of coaching were diligent, self-directed, enthusiastic, and above all they exhibited one of the most important aspects of performance studies:…
On Tuesday, October 1, 2024, CFCC hosted its annual symposium Keeping Youth in Community: Policies, Practices, and Programs to Promote Youth Justice at the University of Baltimore School of Law. This blog is one in a series of four posts about the CFCC’s 2024 symposium. The third panel of the symposium was titled “Bolstering Connection…
On Tuesday, October 1, 2024, CFCC hosted its symposium, Keeping Youth in Community: Policies, Practices, and Programs to Promote Youth Justice, at the University of Baltimore School of Law. This blog is one in a series of four posts about the CFCC 2024 Symposium. During Panel Two, moderated by Alice Wilkerson, executive director of Advance…
On Tuesday, October 1, 2024, CFCC hosted its annual symposium, with the theme, Keeping Youth in Community: Policies, Practices, and Programs to Promote Youth Justice, at the University of Baltimore School of Law. The first panel discussion, “The Community is the Key to Preventing Youth Legal System Involvement,” focused on strategies to keep youth out…
By Alfe Azad In Maryland and beyond, the wellbeing of children and the rights of parents and guardians are matters of significant concern. In response to federal funding requirement, each state crafts its own legislative approach to accessing and responding to allegations of child abuse and neglect. Ideally, these processes should have ample respect…
By Hon. Miriam B. Hutchins, Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland, District 1, Baltimore City (Retired) and TCAP Volunteer Judge for over nine years Volunteering as a judge in the Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Project (TCAP) has been a challenging and engaging experience, one full of eye-opening interactions with students and the TCAP team. I have…
By Sophie Alpert, UBalt Law Class of 2025 This semester as a Student Fellow for the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts (“CFCC”) I have grown so much as a student and future lawyer. Professionally, I am interested in pursuing a career in family law and/or immigration law. As a…
By Michele Hong After over 18 years of supporting chronically absent students and families in Baltimore City and across Maryland, the Truancy Court Program (TCP) has changed its name! Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, what was once known as the TCP is now the Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Project (TCAP). Despite the new moniker, the program…