DYRS

Last week, our Positive Youth Justice series explored the use of positive youth development (PYD) in re-entry work at Waterside Workshops. The small nonprofit by the San Francisco Bay uses boatbuilding and a bike shop as the starting point of a personal relationship between the staff and youths. 

The Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington, D.C.-based activist organization promoting reduced reliance on incarceration in America, has tapped former litigator and juvenile justice agency leader Marc Schindler to serve as its new executive director.