Youth Court Collaborative – Pilot Site Call for Applications

Youth Court Collaborative – Pilot Site Call for Applications

Youth Court Collaborative – Pilot Site Call for Applications
Street Law, Inc. is seeking youth court programs to serve as pilot sites to test and refine new curricular and training modules that integrate Alterative Dispute Resolution (ADR) principles and practices into youth court operations. The curriculum is designed to be used by adult facilitators or leaders of the youth courts to help prepare their youth court members to apply ADR tools and techniques - including negotiation, mediation, and restorative practices - to real decision-making in youth courts. This initiative is part of the Youth Court Collaborative project supported through funding from the AAA-ICDR Foundation.

Applicants must represent a single organizational entity that operates, supervises or directly supports one or more youth court programs and have a coordinator who is willing to engage in training, piloting, feedback and data collection.

Selected youth court programs will agree to:
- Send up to two leaders/facilitators to participate in a Street Law-facilitated two-day training on the curricular and training materials in October 2026;
- Utilize/incorporate a minimum of four of the five lessons in their programming from October 2026 through May 2027;
- Allow one on-site observation visit of the youth court program during the January to April 2027 period; and
- Participate in surveys and interviews to provide implementation feedback, and share lessons learned that will shape national resources.
Selected youth court programs will receive:
- Early access to high quality resources and an opportunity to shape them for national distribution and adoption;
- All expenses paid for up to two program leaders and/or staff to travel to Silver Spring, Maryland to participate in training on the curriculum (flights, lodging, meals and local transport will be provided); and
- A stipend of $2000 to compensate for the time and effort spent implementing the materials and providing feedback.
Applications must be submitted by June 21st.

Section 2 - Program Operations

Please respond to the following questions and prompts, noting the word limits for each. If your organization oversees multiple youth court programs that you plan to include in the pilot initiative, please make sure that is reflected in your responses.
Briefly describe how your youth court(s) currently operates (e.g. referral process/sources, case types/volume, structure, youth roles).

0/500
Help us understand the timing, pace and frequency of your youth court program. Is your youth court programming active year-round or only during certain periods? How often do you engage with the youth court members?

0/250
How do you currently prepare youth court members for their roles? What is your current training and continued education process? If you already utilize learning or skillsbuilding materials with the youth members, please describe them.

0/500
What are your biggest strengths and challenges as a program?

0/500
What community or institutional partners (e.g. schools, courts, nonprofits, law firms) are involved? Include if you use volunteers and if so what type (e.g. law students, undergraduate students, volunteer attorneys).

0/250

Section 3 - Readiness & Alignment

Please respond to the following questions and prompts, noting the word limits for each.
Why are you interested in piloting ADR-focused curriculum and training?

0/250
How does your program currently handle conflict, accountability, or harm among youth?

0/250
Please describe how you plan to incorporate the curriculum into your current program(s). Please be as specific as possible, including information such as what lessons you would plan to use, how you would integrate them into existing skills building processes or create new opportunities to do so, how often you would be able to engage the students on the material, etc.

0/500
Does your program have a process for tracking participants, collecting feedback, and generating outcome data? If yes, please describe. If no, are you able and willing to implement one with support from the project team?

0/250
Please describe your staff capacity and availability to participate in pilot activities, including training, reflection, and evaluation/data collection. This includes one or two leaders being available to participate in an in-person training in October 2026 in Silver Spring, MD, participating in virtual interviews and surveys, and coordinating an on-site visit for Street Law staff in early 2027.

0/250
Will Street Law staff be able to observe your youth court utilizing the curriculum in January-April 2027? Please note any clearance or other access processes we should be aware of.

0/250

Section 4- Administrative Support

In 250 words or less, please respond to the following prompts:
Please list the key system stakeholders who support or oversee your program (e.g., principal, judge, probation officer, nonprofit executive).

0/250
Please identify which individual(s) or entities would likely sign off on participation in this pilot, and what the expected approval process would entail. (This information helps us understand the approval process and system context. No signature or letter is required at this stage.)

0/250

Section 5 - Program Context

In 300 words or less, please respond to the following questions:
Please speak to the demographics of the community or communities served by your program(s) and the youth involved in your program(s).

0/300
What makes your program(s) or community context unique?

0/300
What do you hope to learn or contribute through participation in this project?

0/300

Optional Attachments
No attachments are required. However, please uploaded any optional attachments here, such as 1–2 short examples of materials they currently use for member training (if available), program brochure or other materials you would like to share.

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