Youth Represent Inc

Community lawyering model: our flagship community-lawyering model combines direct legal representation in civil and criminal matters, know your rights workshops, and technical assistance for partner organization staff. Partnering with a wide variety of nyc community organizations, we offer on-site legal services for clients facing employment discrimination, eviction, school suspension, summonses, and other criminal and civil legal issues. We partner with more than 50 community based organizations, to deliver services to thousands of clients across new york.

Policy reform: we work at the state and city level to push for policies that divest from systems that arrest, detain, and imprison black and latin youth, and invest in the kinds of programs and resources that make young people and communities truly safe. We were one of the lead organizations in the successful campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 in new york, and we currently lead the campaign for the youth justice & opportunities act (yj&o), a comprehensive agenda to expand alternatives to incarceration and record sealing for youth not covered by raise the age. Through our city dreamers program, we provide advocacy training and support for young people and connect them with leadership and civic engagement opportunities so they can be agents for change in their communities.employment.