Juvenile Defense Self-Assessment Tool

The Juvenile Committee of the National Association for Public Defense (NAPD) and the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) have developed a Self-Assessment Tool that is intended to create an opportunity to reflect on practices in your office that you may not have considered before. We hope you will complete this assessment and fairly consider the juvenile practice in your office.

The National Juvenile Defender Center and the National Association For Public Defense stand ready to assist your office in completing the self-assessment or in developing solutions that will improve juvenile defense delivery to ensure children’s access to counsel and quality of representation.