Beyond the Manuscript: A Minimum Age for California's Juvenile Legal System: Lessons on Collaborative Research to Drive Legislative Change and Leveraging Collaborative Partnerships to Protect the Human Rights of Children Involved in the United States' Juvenile Justice System

Beyond the Manuscript: A Minimum Age for California's Juvenile Legal System: Lessons on Collaborative Research to Drive Legislative Change and Leveraging Collaborative Partnerships to Protect the Human Rights of Children Involved in the United States' Juvenile Justice System Elizabeth S. Barnert, Melissa Coretz Goemann, Dafna Gozani, and Hal Strelnick Welcome to Progress in Community Health Partnerships' latest episode of our Beyond the Manuscript podcast. In each volume of the Journal, the editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript post-study interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about the project beyond what went into the final manuscript. In this episode of Beyond the Manuscript, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Hal Strelnick interviews Elizabeth S. Barnert, Melissa Coretz Goemann, and Dafna Gozani, authors, A Minimum Age for California's Juvenile Legal System: Lessons on Collaborative Research to Drive Legislative Changeand accompanying editorial, Leveraging Collaborative Partnerships to Protect the Human Rights of Children Involved in the United States' Juvenile Justice System. Your browser does not support the audio tag. Beyond the Manuscript. Click to hear audio Hal Strelnick: Good morning. I am Hal Strelnick, and I am the co-editor in chief of Progress and Community Health Partnerships, and welcome to our Beyond the Manuscript podcast. This morning we have the lead author, Elizabeth Bernert, for one of our manuscripts that are being published in this issue, as well as Melissa Goemann, who is the author of an accompanying editorial, and, an attorney, Dafna Gozani, who will be discussing the manuscript and the efforts in juvenile justice to establish a minimum age for arrest and prosecution. I am going to begin by asking each of them to introduce themselves and then we will talk about the manuscript and the article and the issue, Elizabeth? Elizabeth S. Barnert: Thank you so much for having us here. I am Liz Barnert. I'm an associate professor of pediatrics at UCLA. Much of my research focuses on young people involved in the juvenile legal system and particularly the intersection with health. And I'm also a clinician in Los Angeles juvenile halls. Hal Strelnick: Thank you. Melissa? Melissa Coretz Goemann: Thanks, Hal. My name is Melissa Coretz-Goemann. I'm the Senior Policy Counsel for the National Juvenile Justice Network, or NJJN, and we're focused on helping our members in state organizations all around the country to work on youth justice reform. Hal Strelnick: Thank you. Dafna? [End Page 549] Dafna Gozani: Good morning. I am Dafna Gozani. I am with the National Center for Youth Law, also known as NCYL. Our organization's work focuses on amplifying youth power, dismantling racism, transforming policy, practice, and culture, and I am part of our youth justice team, and we specifically focus on young people who come into contact with the justice system and very much have been focused on taking a public health perspective as we do the work. Hal Strelnick: Thank you. Liz, you were the lead author in the manuscript that describes the partnership and the legal process in California. We would like you to describe and explain why it is so important. Elizabeth S. Barnert: Sure. I have written the article in partnership with my colleague at UCLA, Laura Abrams. She's an academic social worker. If it's okay, the easiest way for me to answer this question is just to tell the story of how we became involved and how the partnership grew. Essentially, Laura and I were at a consortium meeting, put together by a group called the UC Criminal Justice and Health Consortium. Laura and I were in the juvenile justice working group. We were on different sides of campus and did not even meet in our own campus at UCLA. We met at this conference held in San Francisco. And we were tasked with coming up with a relevant topic on juvenile justice and writing a policy brief about it. Laura had just completed a sabbatical year...