Youth, Rights & Justice
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Mission Statement
Youth, Rights & Justice advances the rights of children, parents, and families through advocacy in the courts, schools, legislature, and community.
About This Cause
Founded in 1975, Youth, Rights & Justice (YRJ) advances the rights of children, parents, and families through advocacy in the courts, schools, legislature, and community. As Oregon’s largest public defense nonprofit dedicated exclusively to juvenile law, YRJ has a 50-year history of serving children, youth, and families. Our vision is a just and equitable society that creates opportunities for children, parents, and families to imagine and achieve their aspirations. Because of YRJ’s unique position handling court-appointed child welfare and juvenile justice cases, we often see the same problems affecting family after family and child after child. Our work is grounded in the belief that our clients are at the center of all we do. We provide holistic legal services to children, parents, and families, and we advocate for policy changes to positively impact all children and families statewide. We serve as public defenders in juvenile cases in both trial and appellate courts. We advocate for students to ensure they have equitable access to education. We work to prevent the trauma of foster care removal through holistic early legal advocacy, providing services and supports to families. And we are experts and leaders working to reform the juvenile justice, dependency, and education systems statewide through programs, policy advocacy, consultation, training, and impact litigation. Our goals include helping children succeed, to stay safely at home, and to have opportunities for a bright future. YRJ is the largest nonprofit public defense provider in Oregon that is focused exclusively on juvenile law. Our work serving children, youth, and parents in the juvenile dependency and delinquency systems helps us to identify ways we can positively impact the lives of the people we serve by changing systems and addressing the root causes that lead to involvement in systems like child welfare and the courts.