See video interview below with Michael Umpierre, Director of the Center for Youth Justice at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, formerly the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform. The Center for Youth Justice is the preeminent data and training resource for practitioners and policy makers implementing and advocating for innovative tools to help communities provide more effective and lower cost alternatives to placing youth in trouble or crisis in correctional and other residential facilities. Umpierre will moderate the 50th anniversary YAP® Making Change Happen Summit’s “Justice Reform” panel discussion Nov. 6, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA.
