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- EIN 20-5961971
- (504) 658-6860
- 1100 Milton St Ste B New Orleans LA 70122-1000 USA
- www.laccr.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Crime & Law, Youth Violence Prevention
Mission: We defend the right of every louisiana child to fairness, dignity, and opportunity. Our holistic legal representation helps young people achieve their goals in court and in life; we provide resources and training to other juvenile defenders; and we advocate for a juvenile justice system that is fair, compassionate, and supportive of positive youth development. As the only nonprofit specialized juvenile defense office in the country, we envision a louisiana where young people are empowered with the supports and opportunities that they need to develop and thrive in their own homes and communities; a fair and compassionate juvenile justice system that protects the rights and dignity of every young person; and a statewide community of skilled, committed, and fully-resourced juvenile defenders.
Programs: The louisiana center for children's rights flagship project is the children's defense team, which serves as the juvenile public defender in new orleans, providing an innovative model of holistic, team-based, cross-disciplinary advocacy that responds to the causes and consequences of arrest and incarceration, working towards both legal and life success for new orleans' youth in more than 1,200 cases each year. Statewide, lccr is a leader in promoting the right of every young person in louisiana to high-quality legal representation and we provide training and technical assistance to louisiana's community of juvenile public defenders. We advocate at a systems level for law and policy change to build a juvenile justice system that is fair, compassionate, and supportive of positive youth development. We are reinventing advocacy for young people in the juvenile justice system and building an exportable model of transformative, holistic representation.