National Association of Youth Courts, Inc. Serving youth courts, teen courts, peer courts and student courts Established, 2007
The National Association of Youth Courts, Inc., is the latest initiative of the Federal Youth Court Program administered by the United States Department of Justice since 1997. With considerable support and funding from four Federal Agencies to include the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools and Administration for Children, Youth and Families to include operational expenses for initially a one year period post incorporation.
Planning for this federal initiative began on March 27, 2005 with the specific purpose of creating the first private national organization in America to represent and serve local, state and national youth court, teen court, peer court and student court efforts since this local grass-roots movement began a quarter of a century ago.
There are seventy-seven (77) individuals from twenty (20) states that comprise the Board of Trustees and the National Committees of the National Association of Youth Courts, Inc. These founders include most of the movers and shakers who have been and/or will continue to be instrumental in turning the American idea of Youth Court into the local grass-roots national youth court movement that is now taking hold in other countries around the globe, as it continues to rapidly expand, in and around various geographic areas in America - resulting in hundreds of thousands of youth and adults involved each and every year. The children, youth and families are better off as a result of these individuals, and the many more that will join with the National Association of Youth Courts, Inc., in the coming years, to better serve our most at-risk children, youth and young adults.
