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Emergency Fundraiser: Help Us Build A Food Pantry
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We build a world where we keep kids in school and out of prison.
TJP provides free legal advocacy, education support, mental health care, and community resources to youth navigating systems of punishment and criminalization. Your donation ensures young people are not alone in courtrooms, in schools, or in their communities.
Our Mission: to abolish the school-to-prison pipeline by dismantling systemic racism embedded in the existing institutions of education, mental health, and criminal injustice, while helping young people to develop the tools to define their own story.
Our Work
Every day in Colorado, young people—especially Black, Brown, disabled, and LGBTQ+ youth—are pushed out of school and into the criminal legal system. This pipeline is not inevitable. It is a set of policies and practices that we can interrupt.
The Transformative Justice Project (TJP) walks alongside youth ages 10–25 to ensure:
- They know their rights
- They have someone advocating for them
- Their education and stability are protected
- Their families have the resources they need
We do this through:
Community Cares: mental health support, resource navigation, court advocacy/mitigation and family assistance
Education First: legal advocacy & representation in school discipline hearings and IEP & 504 meetings
LYRIC: Know-Your-Rights workshops for youth and community groups
Believe in Youth: free record expungement services
All of our support is free, culturally responsive, and community-rooted.
Organization name
Transformative Justice Project of Colorado
other names
CJDC, Colorado Juvenile Defender Coalition
2010
Tax id (EIN)
27-2021425
Category
Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Mental Health & Crisis Intervention, Education, Crime & Legal-Related
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
985 Santa Fe DriveMailing
985 Santa Fe DriveHeadquarters
985 Santa Fe DriveCO, US