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Virtual Opportunity
NJPC is in need of a volunteer to help us research and identif potential revenue And grant proposals for our services and supports including information and referral, advocacy, education, Direct services, support groups and evaluation.
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2023
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Wharton, NJ 07885
The New Jersey Parents Caucus is seeking volunteers and or interns, to provide administrative office support in our Morris county or Union County Office for all shifts including Monday through Friday. NJPC is a family and youth-driven advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure that parents, caregivers, family members and youth are given the opportunity to play a strong and active role in the development and delivery of services for their children. Volunteer will aid parents, caregivers and youth accessing NJPC for advocacy, information and referral, support groups, legislative advocacy, etc. Volunteer will make appointments for parents to meet with peer support providers, visit thrift store outlet and or receive food packages.
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2023
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Elizabeth, NJ 07206
Volunteer or Intern will work with treating the youth as youth campaign for Youth waived to the adult prison system in NJ as part of our NJ Youth Justice Initiative which seeks to end the (1) practice of solitary confinement for juveniles in the adult prison system(2) practice of trying, sentencing and incarcerating youth, as young as 15, in the adult prison system in the state of New Jersey (3) Racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. Volunteer would be responsible for speaking to parents of children currently incarcerated in the adult prison system to collect further data on their children's demographics, system involvement, education, etc; correspond with incarcerated youth; attend monthly task force meetings; coordinate and attend legislative meetings; review correspondence with children currently incarcerated; Work with local and national partners, As well as pro bono attorneys on juvenile justice issues; work with advisory committee to develop press releases, case studies and brochures
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2023
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Wharton, NJ 07885
NJPC is in need of a Volunteer who can help Promote our training programs, coordinate the registrations, and ensure that the information is offered on our website for parents caregivers and family members to sign up and register. We also need help Editing thetraining curriculums which consists of 20 courses of 22 PowerPoint slides per course. The training is provided nationally to parents and caregivers throughout the country who are raising children with emotional, behavioral, mental health and substance use challenges who are involved in the mental health, juvenile justice, and special education systems. To date, we have over 20,000 parent training hours and the training has been provided in four states.
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2023
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Elizabeth, NJ 07206
NJPC is seeking a paralegal, attorney, law student or intern to volunteer (Either in our office or virtual) to help us in reforming the Juvenile Justice System by ending the process of waiving youth 15-17 years of age to the adult prison system, ending solitary confinement for youth, ending the process of transering youth adjudicated delinquent to the adult system without due process and reducing racial and ethnic disparities in NJ's juvenile justice system. Volunteer will respond to emails from our youth got this members who are currently incarcerated. volunteer will also set up legal services calls for our pro bono attorney and our current youth Caucus members who are incarcerated. NJPC has recently published a data brief - The Incarceration of Children & Youth in New Jersey’s Adult Prison System: New Jersey Youth Justice Initiative - of 472 children and youth, ages 14 to 17, who were waived, sentenced and incarcerated in New Jersey’s adult prison system between 2007 - 2015. The Brief was published nationally and showed: Gross racial and ethnic disparities: approximately 90% are youth of color; 72% are African American males. Justice by geography: Rates of incarceration in the adult prison system vary significantly across counties in New Jersey, suggesting that justice depends on where one lives, not on the facts of a given case. Youth are regularly deprived of due process: Approximately 30% of the 472 youth waived to adult court during the study period spent more than 2 years incarcerated, between their arrest date and their sentencing date, violating their right to a speedy trial. Youth are regularly put in solitary confinement - especially youth with mental health disorders: Although solitary confinement is known to be psychologically damaging, especially to children, 53% of these youth spent a total of approximately 15,359 days (42 years) in solitary confinement between 2010 and 2015; 5 percent spend over a year there, and about 4 percent spent 2 years or more in solitary. Nearly 70 percent of those placed in solitary had a mental health disorder, with nearly 37% having two or more diagnoses. Youth suffer abuse while in adult prison: once incarcerated in an adult prison, one in four youth surveyed reported physical abuse; 5% reported sexual abuse. NJPC has also published the first family guide to Navigating the Juvenile Justic: System in New Jersey: A Family GUide which was published nationally.
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2023
