Youth Represent Inc.

“The organization provides copies of the Form 990 to all Board of Directors as well as an opportunity to ask questions on the form from our CFO and Executive Director.”

“Officers, directors, and key employees are provided with a copy of the organization's conflict of interest policy on an annual basis. Additionally, these same individuals are required to affirm the absence of conflicts on a regular basis throughout the year whenever Youth Represent is required to affirm our policy to government funders.”

“In 2019, the Board of Directors engaged an executive search firm to fill the vacant Executive Director position. The firm provided the Board with compensation data for a range of non-profits working in the justice field with similar budgets and staff sizes. The Board also reviewed the previous Executive Directors salary, as well as the salary history of the incoming Executive Director. In addition, they reviewed the salaries of other members of management at Youth Represent. All of this information was discussed by the Executive Committee of the Board, which approved the executive salary.”

“The Executive Director conducts an analysis of key employee salaries through collecting comparisons of similar positions.”

“A copy of the Form 990 and report are available to the public upon request.”

“Policy Reform & Youth Development (continued)Raise the Age Implementation AdvocacySince the passage of Raise the Age legislation we have advocated with City agencies to ensure that the letter and spirit of the law are followed, including for youth charged with serious offenses. We have also pushed for greater transparency about implementation, both through existing oversight bodies and by working with City Council members to introduce a Raise the Age data reporting bill. We have continued our advocacy for changes that would reduce the number of young people in the system, including reducing low-level arrests, expanding diversion, demanding police accountability, and reforming the bail system. And we use education and outreach to ensure that young people and families have tools to advocate for themselves in the youth justice system. Raise the Age MonitoringIn collaboration with CUNY and the Childrens Defense Fund, we developed a robust project to monitor the implementation of the RTA law including direct court observation, surveys of public defenders and service providers, public data analysis, and youth focus groups. The core of this project is over 500 observations of juvenile delinquency proceedings in Family Court and criminal proceedings of the Youth Parts of Superior Court collected by researchers in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens in 2019 and early 2020.Further Youth Justice Reform: Raise the Age was a critical first step toward conforming New Yorks youth justice system to principles of youth development, but the law left out tens of thousands of emerging adults age 18 to 25the vast majority of them Black and Latinxwho are arrested each year in New York. It also left out the youngest children arrested and prosecuted as juvenile delinquents each year. Over the past year we laid the groundwork to expand on Raise the Age and promote robust youth justice reform in New York State by working with attorneys, advocates, and young people to develop and advocate for a Youth Justice Agenda for New York State.”