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Katerina Valderrama-Martínez: 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...

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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Ron Many people take their entire adolescence and well into adulthood to find their passion, but Ron Marelli knew what he wanted to do...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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