Mission

Juvenile Rights Project, Inc. is an Oregon non-profit corporation founded for the purpose of providing high quality legal services to children and families, without the means to retain counsel, through individual representation in juvenile proceedings, and through class-wide advocacy in the courts and legislature.

About Us

JRP is the state's leading champion for children and youth in the courtroom and in the community. As Oregon's only law firm devoted to representing young people, JRP wins immediate improvements in the lives of individual children who've been abused and neglected. After identifying system-wideproblems, JRP works with partners throughout the state to implement policy-level solutions. By providing expert training and technical assistance, organizing for administrative and legislative victories and representing individual children and young people as a class, JRP uses every tool available to improve the lives of Oregon's most vulnerable citizens. JRP also represents parents in dependency cases, including those who themselves were raised in the foster care system.

Defense

JRP is a Public Defense firm. JRP attorneys are appointed by the juvenile court to represent children in delinquency, dependency, and termination of parental rights cases at the trial and appellate level. JRP also represents youth charged with delinquent offenses at trial and also the appellant levels. The defense program is funded through a contract with the Oregon Public Defenses Services Commission, (OPDSC).

Advocacy

In addition to court-appointed representation, JRP advocates for children in a variety of other ways. JRP provides information, individual and class representation, administrative and legislative advocacy, technical assistance and training throughout the state. Our advocacy is funded through professional services contracts, grants, donations and attorney fee awards. JRP does not receive funding from the Legal Services Corporation, from filing fees, or from the Campaign for Equal Justice.