Juvenile Justice Meeting to Be Held Next Month

The Coalition for Juvenile Justice will hold its 2006 annual spring conference May 4 to 7 in Bethesda, Md. The theme of the conference is“ What Are the Implications of Adolescent Brain Development for Juvenile Justice?”

National experts will present promising research findings in the areas of adolescent brain development and recent applications of such research in juvenile-justice decision making and practice.

Among the speakers are Marilyn Benoit, M.D., past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Thomas Grisso, M.D., director of Mental Health and Law and coordinator of the Law-Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Marsha Levick, J.D., co-founder and director of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia; and Lawrence Steinberg, M.D., director of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice.

A preconference “primer session” will be held May 4 in which Aaron White, M.D., will discuss brain development and function. The annual forum of the National Juvenile Justice Network will be held in conjunction with the conference on May 3 and 4. Federal policy updates will be held on May 3 and May 4.

Those interested in attending the conference can register online at<www.Cvent.com> by clicking on the “RSVP for Event” tab and then entering event code 7ENX25XDHAW. More information is available from Lindsay Wood at (202) 467-0864, ext. 124. ▪