{"id":4882,"date":"2020-03-13T12:28:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=75521"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:19:13","slug":"regional-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/our-clinics\/juvenile-justice-clinic\/juvenile-justice-initiative\/regional-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mid-Atlantic Region of the Gault Center<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4881 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DC-Juv-CJA-Managing-Caseload-550x365-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mid Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/02\/DC-Juv-CJA-Managing-Caseload-550x365-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/02\/DC-Juv-CJA-Managing-Caseload-550x365-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/02\/DC-Juv-CJA-Managing-Caseload-550x365-1-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Initiative (GJJI), we work passionately to improve legal representation in DC and across the Mid-Atlantic Region. Along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendyouthrights.org\">Gault Center: Defenders of Youth Rights<\/a> (formerly the National Juvenile Defender Center), GJJI coordinates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendyouthrights.org\/about\/regional-centers\/\">The Mid-Atlantic Region of the Gault Center<\/a> (MARGC), one of 9 regional centers of the Gault Center. MARGC is responsible for providing technical assistance and coordinating youth defender training and reform efforts in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Professor Henning is currently the Director of the MARGC. Together we seek to change the culture of juvenile justice by ensuring excellence in youth defense and promoting justice for all children across the Mid-Atlantic region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendyouthrights.org\/about\/regional-centers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visit the MARGC website.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Atlantic Region of the Gault Center At the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Initiative (GJJI), we work passionately to improve legal representation in DC and across the Mid-Atlantic Region. Along with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1855,"featured_media":0,"parent":4588,"menu_order":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-4882","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4882\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}