We’re not building this alone. These are the clinics, advocates, and partners doing youth-justice work alongside us — locally in Texas and nationally.
The original street-law movement. 50+ years of training law students and lawyers to teach practical legal education in high schools. Reaches 2 million young people annually. Project Juvee operates in this tradition.
Combines direct representation of D.C. youth with national policy reform and youth-defender training. Director Kristin Henning's book “The Rage of Innocence” is required reading on how America criminalizes Black youth.
The local one. University of Houston Law Center's clinic — record sealing, direct juvenile representation, education-rights advocacy, school-discipline defense. Sealed 1,000+ juvenile records to date.
Law students represent children and teenagers in education rights, delinquency, custody, and access to social services. Partners with the Children's Law Center nonprofit firm — a strong model for university-community clinical partnerships.
The Texas advocate. Helped abolish juvenile court fees (SB 1612), required diversion plans for fine-only youth offenses (HB 3186), and triggered the DOJ investigation that found Texas's juvenile facilities violated the Constitution and ADA.
Decades of litigation against the school-to-prison pipeline, solitary confinement of youth, and adult prosecution of children. Their amicus brief work shapes how courts treat juvenile confessions and Miranda waivers.
Children's-rights litigation focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, particularly in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia. The “Only Young Once” report documents the systemic harm of Florida's youth legal system.