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Moran Center Executive Director, Patrick Keenan-Devlin, was interviewed by Evanston Round Table about his role in redesigning the station adjustment forms for the Evanston Police Department. Keenan-Devlin was a part of the the Alternatives to Arrest Committee whose goal, “is to find local alternatives to arrests for misdemeanors and reduce the number of young adults that have …

HB4208 establishes the School Safety and Healthy Learning Environment Grant Program which requires schools with high discipline rates to submit plans to reduce school suspensions/expulsions and provides grants (subject to appropriation) for school districts to implement restorative interventions. Governor Rauner amendatorily vetoed a provision within the legislation prohibiting schools from using grant funds to “increase …

Ordinance 18-4955 was passed on Wednesday September 12th by the Cook County board. Commissioner Suffredin recently introduced this Ordinance, which ends the practice of detaining children under the age of 13 in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and Cook County Jail. The Juvenile Justice Initiative distributed a letter, written by the Moran Center, …

The Moran Center’s Restorative Justice Coordinator, Pam Cytrynbaum, was interviewed for the 2018 publication of Peacebuilder Magazine. This magazine is published by the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. Cytrynbaum was interviewed about her participation in the Zehr Institute’s first online course on law enforcement and restorative justice. The article can be access at https://bit.ly/2x33Izh. 

100-0987 (HB4594) also known as the Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act, reforms the system of court costs, fines, and fees in Illinois. The Act reduces the hardship of court costs on low-income individuals and reduces the burden on the court system of collecting these fees by making the system more effective and efficient. The Act also allows individuals …

The Moran Center is looking for volunteers (lawyers and non-lawyers) to volunteer at the School-Based Civil Legal Clinic. We will host a volunteer orientation and training session on September 8, 2018 at 12 pm at Chute Middle School (1400 Oakton St., Evanston). The orientation will provide volunteers with detailed information about the time commitment, policies and …

The Moran Center is looking for volunteers (lawyers and non-lawyers) to volunteer at the School-Based Civil Legal Clinic. We will host a volunteer orientation and training session on June 9, 2018 at 12 pm at Chute Middle School (1400 Oakton St., Evanston). The orientation will provide volunteers with detailed information about the time commitment, policies and …

            The Moran Center is looking for volunteers (lawyers and non-lawyers) to volunteer at the School-Based Civil Legal Clinic which opens on April 4, 2018 at Chute Middle School. We will host a volunteer orientation and training session on March 22, 2018 at 7pm at Chute Middle School (1400 Oakton St., …

            FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE       March 15, 2018 MORAN CENTER ANNOUNCES OPENING OF SCHOOL-BASED CIVIL LEGAL CLINIC AT EVANSTON’S CHUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL The James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy (“Moran Center”) will open a school-based civil legal clinic at Chute Middle School (“Chute”) in Evanston on April 4, 2018.  The …

The Moran Center supports investment in critical prevention and intervention programs, like CCBYS (24/7 emergency services for children and youth in crisis), TeenReach (after school programming), Redeploy Illinois (last-ditch community alternatives to incarceration), and wrap-around supports for youth aging out of the child welfare system, as alternatives to the well-funded pipelines that funnel youth and …