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Katerina Valderrama-MartÃnez: Trauma Informed Care from Internship to Career
Youth Transforming Justice has given both respondents and volunteers the agency to make a difference and advocate for reform in the...
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YTJ Intern Marcos Vega Recognized by County for Contributions to Community
It is during a young person’s adolescent years when they begin to find new interests and develop an idea of what they want to do going...
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Read the stories of former respondents
Ron Many people take their entire adolescence and well into adulthood to find their passion, but Ron Marelli knew what he wanted to do...
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Judge Roy Chernus: Steady Through It All
Marin Superior Court Judge Roy Chernus has acted as one of YTJ’s Peer Solutions adult Facilitators for over 18 years. He has provided...
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Mindsite News: Peer Court Keeps Youth Accountable, Removes Shame and Stigma
On a late afternoon in December, a 22-year-old youth advocate named Rachel is addressing a jury of her peers on Zoom in Marin County
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Our High School Internship Program
Throughout the course of Youth Transforming Justice’s history, young people exercising authentic agency has been at the core of our...
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Antonio Zavala: Coming Full Circle
“Don has been a positive influence in my life since I was 14-years old. When I saw that Youth Transforming Justice (YTJ) had a job...
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Judge Geoffrey Howard
Youth Transforming Justice is a peer led organization that likes to shine a spotlight on its youth participants. However, there is a vast...
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The Next Generation of Changemakers
Noah Block Noah Block is a recent graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore where he continued to be an essential part of the program...
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Supporting Others from Volunteering to a Career: Aaron Fennell
There are many rewarding things that come from being such a long-running organization. One of the luckiest things we get to see is the...
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Challenges, Changes, and New Beginnings: Don Carney
As we enter 2022, it marks Youth Transforming Justice’s (YTJ) eighteenth year as an organization. Many changes and milestones have...
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