Juvenile Justice Education: Protecting the Path for Youth

Welcome, to the Official Website of Juvenile Justice Education: Paving the Path for Youth!

We are a group of eighth graders at the Rindge Ave Upper Campus school in the Cambridge Public School District (CPSD), who are aiming to institute criminal justice education into our school's systems curriculum. 

Our main priority is to raise awareness and further the education relation to the youth criminal justice system. After thorough research about youth in our countries justice system, we've found appalling statistics about not only the amount of youth entering the criminal justice system, but also the damages it does to our youth's future and the massive impact it has on a kids life after being released. 

We know that the best way to avoid something is to know how to avoid it in the first place, and education is best the key to knowledge. As all of us being students who have gone through CPSD's school system, we've never learned anything relating to our youth criminal justice system, which is why we want to change it.

 Just because we are eighth graders and we're not experts on the criminal justice system doesn't mean we can't make a change though! We want to bring in outside cooperations and aim to build bridges with a youth justice education program and our public district so they can provide us with advocates from their organization to come help teach our districts sixth graders. 

We want your help in raising awareness about this solution so that we can take it from prototype to program!