This internships is exclusively for graduate or undergraduate public health students. You can review other internship opportunities at at cfjj.org/jobs.

The goal of the Legislative Advocacy program is to advance legislation at the State

House. Our current advocacy is a campaign to advocate for comprehensive juvenile

justice reform through the legislative process to: (1) require transparency and

accountability in child-serving systems; (2) prevent entry into the legal system; and (3)

reduce the harm of legal system involvement. Interns assist with campaigns as well as

coalition management; research and report drafting; voter education; and legislative and

grassroots event planning.

We are seeking public health students to assist with two projects, which will be predominantly remote with some opportunities for in-person meetings:

Raise the (Upper) Age campaign: The goal of this campaign is to end the automatic

prosecution of older adolescents and shifting 18- to 20-year-olds into the juvenile justice

system. The Public Health student will (1) finalize a public-health oriented statement of

support for the campaign; and (2) outreach to public health leaders and professionals to

build a cohort of public health and medical experts and institutions to endorse the

campaign. The goal of the campaign is to get a diverse group of signatories culminating

in a media and legislative event highlighting this support, and mobilizing individuals to

submit testimony and letters of support to advance this campaign. This position will

predominantly require a lot of outreach, networking and meeting key stakeholders and

event planning. This project is on-going with no defined end date.

Implementation of Raising the Lower Age: CfJJ gets regular requests from

advocates across the country asking about our implementation of the law raising the

age of juvenile jurisdiction from 7 to 12, particularly asking the question "What is the

response to children who break the law but can no longer be arrested or prosecuted?"

CfJJ has collected resources and the goal of this project is to publish a joint CfJJ-NJJN

report on implementation to serve as a guide for policy makers and law enforcement,

and to assist advocacy organizations across the country (in the NJJN network) to raise

the lower age of prosecution in their state. This project will require interviewing key

stakeholders to document the impact of RtA12 on their ability to serve children and

identifying data sources for analysis of the impact of this law. The project will culminate

into a policy brief with a national forum to release the analysis. This project is expected

to run through the Summer 2023 semester, possibly into the Fall 2023 semester.

To apply for the position, please submit (1) a cover letter, (2) resume, and (3) a 2-3

page policy writing sample and/or other examples of your work that demonstrate your

writing or data analysis skills to: cfjj@cfjj.org. Please write "Legislative