The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention invite you to register for the 2024 National Conference on Youth Justice: Shaping the Next 50 Years. The conference will be held November 19–21, 2024, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. 

The conference will bring together youth justice partners, practitioners, youth and families, OJJDP grantees, and other stakeholders and will feature over 80 workshops, 2 plenary sessions, and networking events. 

Each conference session is centered around the "Continuum of Care for Communities," which describes a framework for youth justice services—and the dynamic and evolving nature of youth involvement in this continuum. This framework has been shown to improve youth outcomes and reduce reoffending, thereby advancing public safety. The goal of the Continuum of Care is to prevent youth from entering or moving deeper into the juvenile justice system. Each session is tagged (see example) on where it fits within this framework. 

Conference sessions will provide the latest research, evidence-informed practices, and other promising approaches that have positively impacted the youth justice field. View the conference agenda. 

Plenary Speakers

Attendees will hear from the 2024 National Conference plenary keynote speakers: Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Dr. Shawn Ginwright, the Jerome T. Murphy Professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education; Jeremiah Brown, Players Coalition advocate and former NFL Athlete, is a husband, father, and native of Brooklyn, NY. He founder and CEO of The Lead Academy Athletics and Coaching.