The Gault Center

The Gault Center, formerly known as the National Juvenile Defender Center, strives to promote justice for all children by ensuring excellence in youth defense.

The Gault Center is defined by five core actionable principles: 

• Serve, with tenacity: We are poised at every moment to address the most pressing challenges and seize all opportunities to advance the defense of young people. We know that in doing this, we must work efficiently and expeditiously. There is no task that is too big or too small in our service.   
•  Listen, with curiosity: We recognize that knowing what to do comes from listening. We listen to understand the successes and challenges that our team and community experience. We listen with humility and are receptive to new ideas, points of view, and strategies.   
• Collaborate, with compassion: We honor and embrace each other's unique talents, perspectives, and experiences. Diversity centers our work and is the strength of the organization. Our team is most effective when we encourage, recognize, and value each other’s perspectives, cultural differences, and contributions.   
• Inspire, with excellence: We strive for the quality of our work to set the standard for advocacy in youth defense. When we do our best, we inspire others to do the same, with intentionality, quality, and respect.  
•  Lead, with courage: We lead with heart to ensure liberty and equity for young people. Even when uncomfortable, we push ourselves and each other to investigate and transform systems of injustice. We evolve and adapt to new realities in service of our youth defense community.