California Community Non-profits Get $1.3 Million to Push for Juvenile Justice Policy Change [JJIE.org]

Last week, a group of California-based foundations announced a $1.3 million investment into nonprofit community-based organizations in 11 of the state’s counties, including Los Angeles, through the Positive Youth Justice Initiative. This comes after two previous investments as part of PYJI’s three-phase initiative to eliminate racial disparities and transform the state’s juvenile justice system to better serve California’s vulnerable youth in need of trauma-informed care. This third monetary investment was announced last Friday, at an event called Organizing for a Healthy Justice System, which brought together the 11 selected organizations with philanthropy groups and others to “strengthen connections and build collaboration, and to identify policy opportunities for advocacy and organizing.” [For more of this story, written by Taylor Walker, go to http://jjie.org/2017/04/13/cal...stice-policy-change/]