Athens Peer Court

Athens Peer Court Athens Peer Court is a community leadership program in which trained youth volunteers serve as the l Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30602.

Athens Peer Court is formed in collaboration by the Athens-Clarke County Juvenile Court, the University of Georgia's Fanning Institute and UGA's School of Law Street Law Student Group.

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***ATTENTION***

High school students with an interest in law, volunteer work, or simply building a new

skill set are invited to train to become volunteers for Athens Peer Court!! Upon completion of training, students will have the opportunity to work on cases and be an active member of this community organization. If you'd like to participate, please e-mail Emily Boness at [email protected] or call 706-542-1472

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We will begin a 14 hour training course for peer court volunteers on January 22nd. The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, January 22, 5:30-8:30PM
Saturday, January 26, 9:00AM-3:00PM
Thursday, January 31, 5:30-8:30PM
Sunday, February 3rd, 1:00-3:00PM

All training will take place at the Fanning Institute, located at 1240 S.

09/24/2013

Be sure to eat at Dirty Birds tonight for their APC percentage night! From 5:00 until close, a portion of all food sales will be used for future APC training opportunities

Training for our 5th cohort begins August 20th! If you are interested in learning about the legal system, giving back t...
08/13/2013

Training for our 5th cohort begins August 20th!

If you are interested in learning about the legal system, giving back to the Athens community, and developing leadership and public speaking skills be sure to go to the website for more information!

Our next training will take in August shortly after school begins. We will have training Tuesday, August 20th, 5:30-8:30, Saturday, August 24th, 9-4pm and Monday, August 26th from 5:30-8:30pm . This...

01/09/2013

Our next training begins January 22nd! If you are a 7th-12th grader who'd like to join the program, please let us know! You can send us your email by going to www.athenspeercourt.org.

Consent forms are now available! Please print out this form and either email, mail or fax it back to enroll in the upcoming training session. Once you have submitted the consent form, you will be...

08/15/2012

Our first training session for the new cohort was such a huge success! We have such an amazing new group of student volunteers and we can't wait to see how these superstars change the world!

06/06/2012

We have such talented and amazing volunteers. All of these kids are changing the world!

04/03/2012

Grady News Source profiles Athens Peer Court!!

03/19/2012

Athens Peer Court is in session tomorrow night for it's second session!! We will have two cases tomorrow! Our first case two weeks ago went really well!!

02/17/2012

This week our first class of 13 Athens Peer Court volunteers graduated!!! They will be taking their first case beginning in March!! Congratulations everyone!

02/04/2012

Athens Peer Court is full of such superstars!

02/01/2012

Last night's first Athens Peer Court Training was amazing!! We are really impressed with our 12 very smart teen volunteers ;-)

01/26/2012

ATLANTA — Georgia should overhaul its juvenile justice system in the same way state leaders have proposed focusing more heavily on rehabilitating rather than jailing nonviolent adult offenders, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Carol Hunstein told lawmakers Wednesday.

01/19/2012

Peer Court tranings will begin January 31st!! Any interested teens may contact Emily Boness at 706-542-1472 or [email protected] or [email protected] We will provide food and transportation. We will need a permission slip signed so that teens may participate. The trainings take place over four dates and are 16 hours total.

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Athens, GA
30602

Telephone

+17065421472

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