Summer Learning Series
Since YSRP’s founding in 2014, our team and community have navigated a constantly shifting landscape in youth justice and legal reform. As the field continues to evolve, we believe this moment presents important opportunities to reflect, learn, and build toward what comes next.
This summer, YSRP is launching a new Virtual Summer Learning Series — conversations that invite supporters, advocates, practitioners, and community members into some of the strategic questions shaping our work and the broader movement.
June 3, 2026, 12-1pm
Join YSRP Associate Director of Reentry John Pace and Abolitionist Law Center Executive Director Saleem Holbrook for a conversation, facilitated by YSRP Policy Director Margot Isman, about how a movement built with Juvenile Lifers a decade ago could inform the opportunity to bring home over 1,100 Pennsylvanians impacted by the recent Lee decision. Register here.
Freedom After Lee
June 17, 2026, 12-1pm
YSRP Director of Mitigation Annie Ruhnke and YSRP client-partners will discuss how mitigation uses narrative strategies to center potential and possibility, and how lessons learned alongside the Juvenile Lifer community can, and should, shape the ways we support young people facing adult prosecution who still have so much of their stories ahead of them. Register here.
Lessons We Can’t Forget
July 15, 2026, 12-1pm
With a growing client-partner community and a resource-constrained environment, YSRP must rethink the reentry process. Instead of measuring success by measuring recidivism - a deficit-based metric - how do we assess when client-partners are thriving and how we might articulate a process of graduation from client-partner to community mentor or elder? Register here.