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Juvenile Justice Policy Analyst Externship with CIYJ

Somewhere in America right now, a kid is sitting in a juvenile facility where staff outnumber youth two-to-one — and it's still not safe. Meanwhile, another facility with fewer staff but better training has half the assaults. A teenager of color is spending longer in room confinement than a white peer for the same behavior. A younger kid with no family contact is spiraling into more serious incidents with no one connecting the dots. CIYJ has 20+ years of data that captures all of it — youth and staff surveys, incident reports, demographic records, outcome measures — and they need analysts who can find the signal in the noise. In this externship, students dig into that dataset to test the assumptions juvenile justice has operated on for decades, surface the correlations that actually matter, and deliver findings that go straight into CIYJ's advocacy work with state agencies and legislatures. This isn't a practice dataset. The insights you find could change how a facility operates — and what happens to the kids inside it.