Revolutionizing Probation: From Punishment to Community-Led Safety, Part I, Webinar

On March 26, 2026, the Gault Center & Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout (YEAH Philly) hosted a webinar on Revolutionizing Probation from Punishment to Community-Led Safety.

This webinar focused on shifting narratives around juvenile probation—to challenge the dominant rhetoric that probation is an act of benevolence that keeps youth and communities safe and to bring to light the ways probation controls, harms, and surveils as reported by young people and analyzed through the history of juvenile probation in our country. We also offered narrative strategies to translate the realities of juvenile probation into effective advocacy to create change.

This webinar was offered as part of the Juvenile Probation Accountability Coalition (JPAC). Learn more about this initiative here.