OJJDP News @ a Glance December 2024 | December 2024 | Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (original) (raw)

Photo of panel discussion with Administrator Liz Ryan and eight former OJJDP administrators.

Filled With Hope for a More Equitable Future

“OJJDP’s National Conference on Youth Justice was a tremendous success. More than 2,500 people filled the conference hall with a palpable energy. Attendees represented every aspect of the youth justice field—practitioners, researchers, lawmakers, OJJDP grantees—and the largest cohort was young people, most of them youth with lived experience. Attendees traveled to Washington, DC, from all 50 states and every U.S. territory, ready to exchange ideas and insights. Our conference theme was ‘Shaping the Next 50 Years’ of youth justice, and I witnessed a commitment to the future that fills me with hope for a more equitable, more responsive, and more effective juvenile justice system.”

—OJJDP Administrator Liz Ryan, reflecting on OJJDP's National Conference