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Join OJJDP for the 2024 National Conference on Youth Justice in Washington, D.C.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention invites 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. This national conference, the first held by OJJDP since 2011, will highlight sessions related to OJJDP’s priority areas: Treat Children as Children; Serve Children at Home, With Their Families, in Their Communities; and Open Up Opportunities for System-Involved Youth.

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

Attendees will hear from the 2024 National Conference plenary keynote speakers: Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative; and Dr. Shawn Ginwright, the Jerome T. Murphy Professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Join in as OJJDP culminates the yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. 

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Date Published: September 16, 2024