Two WWU faculty members will discuss new juvenile justice programs at the Lummi Indian Reservation Oct. 20 as part of a quarter-long exploration of “Children and the Law” by the Center for Law, Diversity & Justice at WWU’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Raquel Montoya-Lewis, chief judge for the Lummi Nation and an assistant professor at Fairhaven, will speak about the Lummi Juvenile Justice Project along with Jason Dallmann, the project’s coordinator. The year-old project has juvenile offenders complete service projects – while receiving support from drug and alcohol counselors, social workers and others – as an alternative to probation for their offenses.

The talk will be at 7 p.m. in the Communications Facility, Room 105.

“We’re going to be talking about our focus on restorative justice as an approach to working with kids rather than rehabilitation or punishment,” Montoya-Lewis said. “The ultimate goal is, if the kids become involved with the community they’re much less likely to be doing things out in the world that are negative. And if they know people know where they are and are paying attention to them, they’re much less likely to go out and do bad things.”