The Juvenile Justice Collaborative is a project of the Center for Community Alternatives (CCA), the Haywood Burns Institute and the Justice Policy Institute. CCA’s mission is to reduce reliance on incarceration through direct services and policy advocacy.

The purpose of the Collaborative project is to build connections with the human rights movement to increase the use and the salience of the human rights framework in U.S. juvenile justice reform work. The Collaboration’s focus is on the overuse of detention in the juvenile justice system, particularly for children of color. This overuse of detention contravenes provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The Collaborative expects to be an active participant in the CERD shadow reporting process.