Photo of the Week

At the New York City Innovative Nonprofit Awards, Center Director Greg Berman shakes hands with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Center was among ten nonprofits honored for using data to fight poverty in innovative ways. (June 6, 2013)

The third annual Arts To End Violence festival opens in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This year, over 150 people enjoyed 52 pieces of art at the festival, which is organized by the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center and Save Our Streets (SOS) Crown Heights, and which invites artists of all ages to create works of art featuring messages of peace, community, and nonviolence. (May 30, 2013)

The Staten Island Youth Justice Center joins a press conference held by New York City Council Members Debi Rose (Staten Island) and Jumaane D. Williams (Brooklyn) as they announce the launch of a new anti-violence initiative on Staten Island based on the Cure Violence model of gun violence prevention. The Staten Island Youth Justice Center will be one of the partners in the initiative. (May 23, 2013)

To clean up Orchard Beach, Bronx Community Solutions partners up with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, GrowNYC, the U.S. Coast Guard, and others. (May 15, 2013)

In celebration of Law Day 2013, Bronx Community Solutions held a youth forum on injustice and discrimination. Here, a senior from the High School for Law, Government, and Justice poses a question to a panel that includes (from left) Judge Efrain Alvarado, Deputy Director of Bronx Defenders Seann Riley, Narcotics Bureau Chief Assistant District Attorney Julie De León, Detective Ford of the 41st Precinct, and Court Officer Perez of the Bronx Criminal Court.(5/8/13)

Each spring the Center organizes its annual Domestic Violence Court Open House for Office on Violence Against Women Court Training and Improvements Project grantees to come observe model domestic violence courts in New York City, as well as learn from experts on topics related to court planning and implementation. Here, Sujata Warrier of the New York State Office on the Prevention of Domestic Violence speaks about the importance of incorporating cultural competency into court practice. (May 1, 2013)

At the annual Save Our Streets (SOS) Crown Heights "Stop Shooting, Start Living" Talent Show, a Crown Heights, Brooklyn resident performs a solo. Over 80 singers, rappers, poets, and dancers played to a packed house of over 400 people at PS 289. (April 24, 2013)

The Brownsville Community Justice Center's Anti-Violence Project brings together more than 60 Brownsville residents, community leaders, clergy, and law enforcement for a luncheon at the Stone Avenue Library to share ideas about working together to reduce gang and gun violence in the neighborhood. (April 17, 2013)

Volunteers beautify Brownsville's Betsy Head Park. Overall, more than 60 volunteers from the Brownsville Community Justice Center, Teach for America, Brownsville Partnership, Xmental, and the New York Juvenile Justice Corps came together to give the pool house a fresh coat of paint, plant shrubs and trees in a new garden, and remove graffiti from a community mural. (April 10, 2013)

At Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, Brooklyn's News 12 interviews a youth organizer about the annual Arts To End Violence competition. (April 4, 2013)

The Newark Youth Court teams up with local high school students to paint a mural at Newark Community Solutions on “transformation," working to depict how individuals and communities can change. (March 28, 2013)

To help post-Sandy Staten Island, the Center partners with the Manhattan District Attorney to organize community service clients from the Midtown Community Court and the downtown court in continuing cleanup efforts. With other volunteers, clients removed approximately four large dump trucks worth of trash from this wetland, helping to ensure that it continues to function as a natural barrier providing protection in future storms. (March 21, 2013)

A Youth Justice Board member describes her experience researching truancy and chronic absenteeism for a Columbia University Teachers College EdLab film series on innovative educational programming. To watch the video, click here. (March 13, 2013)

Bronx Community Solutions celebrates the opening of their new office space in the Bronx Criminal Court on March 1, 2013. Over fifty staffers, court personnel, judges, community partners, as well as the Bronx District Attorney attend the opening. (March 6, 2013)

At the open house for the new Save Our Streets (SOS) project in the South Bronx, visitors learn about how the SOS team is working to reduce gun violence. (February 27, 2013)

The Harlem Parole Reentry Court celebrates 53 graduates of the Harlem Community Justice Center's reentry programming. Pictured from left: Reentry Case Aid and former graduate Cramon Milline, Project Director Chris Watler, Judge Terry Saunders, and State Corrections Commissioner Brian Fischer, who told the crowd that he hoped to "work himself out of a job." (February 22, 2013)

At the first-ever Y.O. SOS (Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets) retreat, teens bond and plan their spring community organizing project, Arts to End Violence . (February 13, 2013)

Captain Jeffrey Schiff of the 76th Precinct leads large site visit of judges and other criminal justice professionals to the Red Hook Community Justice Center as part of the U.S. Latin American Judicial Exchange Program--a collaboration between the Vance Center for International Justice and the Justice Center of Americas. (February 6, 2013)

Save Our Streets (SOS) Crown Heights holds a peace march in Brooklyn. A new evaluation of SOS finds that the program, which is operated out of the Crown Heights Mediation Center, has helped decrease gun violence in the area. (January 30, 2013)

Red Hook Youth Court members are interviewed by Brooklyn's News Channel 12 about their participation in the MLK Day of Service. (January 24, 2012)

Staff from the Office of Court Administration, the Legal Aid Society, the Kings County District Attorney's Office, and the Center for Court Innovation hold hands in a closing ceremony of a Peacemaking Program information session. (January 16, 2013)

Members of the Youth Justice Board pose with Judge Alex Calabrese on a visit to the Red Hook Community Justice Center. (January 9, 2013)

A member of the Harlem Justice Corps poses among props at the National Black Theatre, where the Justice Corps helped renovate and improve the theater space and common areas of the building. (January 3, 2013)

Bronx Community Solutions collaborates with the Midtown Community Court, the Red Hook Community Justice Center, and the Brownsville Community Justice Center to conduct a major community service project with clients referred from the Manhattan District Attorney's office, helping to clean up and rebuild Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy. (December 19, 2012)

Members of the New York Juvenile Justice Corps survey South Bronx residents on their perceptions of public safety in their community as part of the planning for the Center's new Save Our Streets anti-gun violence project in the South Bronx. (December 12, 2012)

Navajo peacemakers train volunteers for the Peacemaking Program in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The new initiative will apply peacemaking to cases referred by the Red Hook Community Justice Center. (December 5, 2012)

A new flag goes up the Red Hook Community Justice Center, replacing the one damaged by Hurricane Sandy. (November 28, 2012)

At Midtown Community Court's Serving Fathers, Strengthening Families celebration, Times Square Ink/Dads United for Parenting graduate Willie Key (center) speaks with program coordinators Bo Twiggs (left) and Jonathan Monsalve (right, holding Mr. Key’s son). (November 21, 2012)

The Red Hook Community Justice Center holds its first staff meeting after Hurricane Sandy in Red Hook's Coffey Park in lieu of flooded Justice Center. (November 14, 2012)

After Hurricane Sandy flooded Red Hook, Brooklyn, the New York Juvenile Justice Corps and the Red Hook Community Justice Center worked to clean up the neighborhood. (October 31, 2012)

To teach teachers about youth courts, the Greenpoint Youth Court holds a mock hearing at the first of two symposiums about using this peer-based approach to discipline in schools. (October 24, 2012)

Youth court members from the Red Hook Community Justice Center are interviewed by Channel 12 about the Brooklyn Youth Summit, where they promoted the Red Hook Youth Court and connected with New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Green City Force, and the NYPD Explorers program. (October 17, 2012)

Prisoner Reentry Institute Director Ann Jacobs cuts the ribbon on the Harlem Justice Corps office. Part of the New York City Justice Corps initiative, the Harlem Justice Corps is an intensive career development and service program for justice-involved young adults. Jacobs is joined by Chris Watler, director of the Harlem Community Justice Center, Marta Nelson, executive director for the Center for Employment Opportunities in New York City, Reion Evans, coordinator at Literacy Partners Push Center Community Partnership, and a Corps member. (October 10, 2012)

Brownsville community member Mark Tanis speaks a press conference announcing a Department of Justice grant for the Brownsville Anti-Violence Project, a project of the Brownsville Community Justice Center. (October 3, 2012)

In Newark, a community service field day started with a community service crew cleaning up Boys Park and ended with a series of field day events. Here, neighborhood kids enjoy games led by youth court members from Newark Community Solutions. (September 26, 2012)

New York Juvenile Justice Corps organized a service project in Red Hook to benefit local firemen and first responders affected by 9/11. Corps members spent the morning cleaning up a recently renovated 1800s firehouse, where Friends of Firefighters provides mental health and wellness services for active and retired firemen at no or low cost. (September 19, 2012)

New York City Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, center, visits with staff of Save Our Streets Crown Heights at the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center to learn how the program works to reduce shootings and killings in the neighborhood. (September 12, 2012)

Members from Groundswell Community Mural Project and Brownsville Community Justice Center unveil a new mural at the Brownsville Student Farm Project, a community garden and teaching space in Brownsville. New York City Probation Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi speaks at the ceremony. (September 5, 2012)

Members from our youth courts across the city get together for a day of fun in Central Park. (August 30, 2012)

Newark Community Solutions participants clean up an Adopt-A-Lot site on Elizabeth Avenue in Newark. (August 22, 2012)

Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits Brownsville Community Justice Center during National Night Out Against Crime 2012. (August 15, 2012)

At National Night Out 2012, staff from Bronx Community Solutions, a local pastor, and a young artist, pose in front of photographs by local members of a community program that engages youth in arts-related projects. (August 8, 2012)

Valerie Raine (center), director of Drug Court Programs at the Center for Court Innovation, hosts a delegation from the Drug Demand Reduction Program at the U.S. Department of State, Mexico City at the Brooklyn Treatment Court: Jeffrey Zinsmeister, coordinator (left) and Nohemí Lira, program specialist (right). (August 1, 2012)

At the Youth Court Research Roundtable, Mike Rempel, research director at the Center, is seated beside former Chief Judge Kaye and is speaking to Michael Norton, research associate at Research for Action about evaluating youth courts in schools. The roundtable brought together researchers and practitioners to begin developing a research agenda to evaluate the impact of youth courts on important outcomes like recidivism, school success, and community safety. (July 25, 2012)

The Harlem Community Justice Center kicks off the Second Annual Harlem Reentry Family Day. (July 18, 2012)

After a 3-hour game, the Red Hook baseball league's BYA Royals celebrate their win. In 2012, the Red Hook league celebrates 15 years of enhancing the lives of kids, coaches, and the Red Hook community. (July 11, 2012)

Harlem Community Justice Center celebrates the Harlem Youth Court graduation. (July 3, 2012)

Members of the Youth Justice Board attend the premiere in Harlem of their video, Talking It Through: A Teen-Police Dialogue. (June 29, 2012)

Harlem Community Justice Center and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem host a free legal clinic for New York City Housing Authority residents. (June 20, 2012)

Mural in the Brownsville Community Justice Center, a new demonstration project in Brooklyn. (June 13, 2012)

Crown Heights residents attend the Arts to End Violence art opening organized by the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center. (June 6, 2012)

Newark Community Solutions participates in AIDS Walk New York. (May 30, 2012)

On Law Day, Judge Fern Fischer gives the keynote speech at the Harlem Community Justice Center. (May 23, 2012)

In celebration of Law Day, Bronx Community Solutions gave over 100 Bronx youth an opportunity to participate in discussions with court officers, attorneys, and judges. (May 16,2012)

At the 2012 National Domestic Violence Court Open House, at the Center for Court Innovation headquarters in New York City, Georgia Judge Berryl Anderson and her team map their court response to domestic violence. (May 9, 2012)

Adolescent diversion program participants from Bronx Community Solutions work with NYPD officers to remove graffiti in the 46th precinct. The adolescent diversion program is a new pilot initiative in the New York State Court System that works to improve the judicial response to 16- and 17-year-old offenders. (May 2, 2012)

Susan Lindenauer, board director for the New York Bar Foundation, came to the Center on April 20th to present Greg Berman with grant checks from the Foundation for four of our youth programs: Youth Justice Programs, the Youth Justice Board, the Greenpoint Youth Court, and the Staten Island Youth Court. (April 25, 2012)

A new collaboration between the Red Hook Community Justice Center and Groundswell Community Mural Project through which court-involved youth and other young people living in the community create a mural for the Justice Center's new Youth Justice Programs room. (April 18, 2012)