What is "recidivism"? Recidivism is the tendency for an offender to engage in repeated criminal behavior. [1] Data from LA County...

Two 12-year old boys who attend the same middle school, were playing after school. One was arrested...

CYS is proud to have made the following impact on the community during 2022.

CYS is growing because of our transformational impact on the Los Angeles community.

National Family Month focuses on the importance of good family relationships and the systems of healthy communication they can establish

April is National Volunteer Month, and CYS recognizes the contributions of our mediators, surrogate victim advocates and skilled translators

In addition to an incredibly generous team of volunteers, CYS is lucky to have a staff with big hearts and varied talents.

Recently, a group of twelve students at Compton Unified’s Enterprise Middle School were invited to take part in Restorative Circles...

For CYS volunteer and strategic advisor John Manulis, community involvement is a passion.

The story of why Nicole brought a knife to school revealed profound hardships in her life and threats to her well-being.

CYS’s new Mediation Office Hours program, has become a powerful, positive and well-attended program.

CYS is proud to announce it recently received a $50,000 general operating support grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation.

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, it highlighted the great disparities between families in terms of access to digital communication...

The LA County DA’s announcement provides details of the new partnership with CYS to expand use of restorative justice for non-violent felony

It’s been a year of many exciting firsts for CYS and our community of clients.Thanks to you and to all our volunteers and supporters, CYS ha

Last month, 28 people convened by video conference for the largest-ever victim-offender restitution services mediation hosted by CYS.

On National Letter Writing Day, we invite you and your friends and family to take part in our favorite "restorative practice".

With COVID-19, CYS has energetically developed new, user-friendly systems for delivering restorative justice and youth development services

In early May, a good friend of CYS alerted us to a search underway at the LA Times and Instagram for stories of workers and visionaries...

A damaging digital divide has been highlighted and exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis.