Demonstration Projects
Overview
The Center creates new programs that test innovative approaches to public safety problems. Underlying this work is the idea that, rather than simply processing cases, the justice system should seek to change the behavior of offenders and improve public safety. While the Center's model projects cover a broad range of topics—from juvenile delinquency to the reentry of ex-offenders into society—the approach is always the same: rigorous, collaborative planning and an emphasis on using data to document results and ensure accountability. The Center's projects have achieved tangible results like safer streets, reduced levels of fear, and improved neighborhood quality of life.
Project List
Attendance Achievement Program
Attendance Achievement Program is a truancy prevention program that provides students and families with resources in a supportive, community setting.
Bronx Community Solutions
Bronx Community Solutions is an initiative that seeks to apply a problem-solving approach to non-violent cases in the Bronx.
Brooklyn Domestic Violence Court
The Brooklyn Felony Domestic Violence Court adjudicates all indicted domestic violence felonies in the borough of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Mental Health Court
The Brooklyn Mental Health Court seeks to craft a meaningful response to the problems posed by defendants with mental illness.
Brooklyn Treatment Court
The Brooklyn Treatment Court is New York City’s first drug treatment court.
Brownsville Community Justice Center
Brownsville Community Justice Center seeks to provide young people in Brownsville opportunities to sidestep incarceration, unemployment, and poverty.
Centre for Justice Innovation
Centre for Justice Innovation seeks to promote criminal justice reform in England and Wales by focusing on the use of demonstratation projects.
Child Witness Support Program
The Child and Adolescent Witness Support Program provides mental health support and referrals to children and adolescents exposed to violent crime.
Crown Heights Community Mediation Center
The Mediation Center is a unique neighborhood institution that works to improve community problem-solving, collaboration, and inter-group relations.
Domestic Violence Courts
New York's criminal domestic violence courts build on a court model first established with the Brooklyn Felony Domestic Violence Court in 1996.
Harlem Community Justice Center
The Harlem Community Justice Center seeks to solve neighborhood problems—including youth crime, landlord-tenant disputes.
Harlem Justice Corps
The Harlem Justice Corps is an intensive career development program for justice-involved young adults.
Integrated Domestic Violence Court
IDV Courts hold offenders to a higher level of accountability by concentrating responsibility for defendant oversight in the hands of a single judge.
Manhattan Family Treatment Court
The Manhattan Family Treatment Court addresses the problems of children neglected by substance-abusing parents or guardians.
Midtown Community Court
The Midtown Community Court targets quality-of-life offenses, such as prostitution, illegal vending, graffiti, shoplifting, farebeating and vandalism.
New York Juvenile Justice Corps
The New York Juvenile Justice Corps is an AmeriCorps service program that seeks to address unmet educational needs.
Newark Community Solutions
Newark Community Solutions is an innovative justice project that applies a problem-solving approach to non-violent cases in Newark's Municipal Court.
Parent Support Program
Parent Support Program is helping non-custodial parents meet their child support obligations and build stronger relationships with their children.
Parole Reentry Court
The Parole Reentry Court helps parolees returning from incarceration make the transition from life in prison to responsible citizenship.
Peacemaking Program
Peacemaking is a traditional Native American approach to justice that focuses on healing and restoration rather than punishment.
QUEST
Queens Engagement Strategies for Teens is a community-based program that provides an alternative to youth detention.
Red Hook Community Justice Center
Launched in June 2000, the Red Hook Community Justice Center is the nation's first multi-jurisdictional community court.
Staten Island Youth Justice Center
The Staten Island Youth Justice Center consists of several programs focused on positive engagment of local and justice-invovled youth.
Upstate Office
The Syracuse office supports innovative justice reform projects throughout Upstate New York.
Westchester Court Education Initiative
The Westchester Court Education Initiative promotes educational stability and academic success for students involved in the Westchester Family Court.
Youth Courts
Youth courts train teenagers to serve as jurors, judges and attorneys, handling real-life cases involving their peers.
Youth Domestic Violence Court
Brooklyn’s Youthful Offender Domestic Violence Court is the first court to address exclusively misdemeanor domestic violence cases among teenagers.
Youth Justice Board
The Youth Justice Board is an after-school program that brings together young people to study and propose solutions to the public safety challenges.
