Strengthening Institutional Responses: Criminal Justice, Child Welfare, and Immigration Systems

In August 2022, the three-day Strengthening Institutional Responses conference took place in Toronto, Ontario. This conference was hosted by the Rights for Children and Youth Partnership (RCYP) in collaboration with the Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence (CWICE), Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), StepStones for Youth, Toronto Metropolitan University, and the University of Waterloo, and received generous funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. A primary objective of the conference was to shed light on young people’s experiences with child welfare, criminal justice, and immigration systems, emphasizing the Ontario context.