To provide general operating support for this legal service agency. Youth Represent uses an innovative model which combines direct legal representation, youth leadership development and advocacy for reform to support young people involved in the justice system. To accomplish this, Youth Represent partners with a number of community organizations to provide extensive legal services and education on the exercise of legal rights to incarcerated and previously-incarcerated youth. In addition, Youth Represents engages in activism as an organization, while also empowering young people to be their own advocates and get involved in the reform process.
