Kristina Kersey's Contact Details

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National Juvenile Defender Center

Washington, DC, US • 20 - 49 Employees
Public Safety

The National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting justice for all children by ensuring excellence in juvenile defense. NJDC provides support to public defenders, appointed counsel, law school clinical programs, and non-profit law centers to ensure quality representation in urban, suburban, rural, and tribal areas. NJDC also offers a wide range of integrated services to juvenile defenders, including training, technical assistance, advocacy, networking, collaboration, capacity building, and coordination. NJDC gives juvenile defense attorneys a permanent and enhanced capacity to address practice issues, improve advocacy skills, build partnerships, exchange information, and participate in the national debate over juvenile crime. "The child ‘requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings against him.'" – In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 18 (1967)