CASCWA 2018 State Conference

We will be going through a practical approach to implementing a student-led restorative discipline practice known as Youth Court. Peer court, also known as youth or teen court, is an alternative approach to the traditional juvenile justice and educational discipline system. A youth charged with an offense has the opportunity to forgo the hearing and sentencing procedures of youth court and agrees to a sentencing forum with a jury of the youth's peers. Youth Court additionally works to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline by providing appropriate (and restorative) alternative consequences for negative behavior.