Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

Legal ServicesLouisiana, United States11-50 Employees

The Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights is a non-profit legal services organization based in New Orleans, focused on reducing youth involvement in the justice system and ensuring safer, more supportive outcomes for children and their families. Its work encompasses direct juvenile defense with a holistic team approach—including lawyers, social workers, investigators, and youth advocates—to address both the immediate consequences of arrest and the underlying causes. The center also represents individuals sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as children and pursues broader state and local advocacy to expand alternatives to arrest and incarceration while safeguarding rights and promoting timely return home. Serving primarily low-income, Black youth, LCCR combines individualized defense with systemic reform efforts to minimize unnecessary criminalization and to promote policies that keep children out of the justice system where possible. Based in Louisiana, the organization operates within the legal services sector and positions itself as a catalyst for both case-level advocacy and policy change to improve outcomes for children in the juvenile justice system.

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