2024 Norm Maleng Advocate for Youth Award Breakfast

2023 Norm Maleng Advocate for Youth Award Honoree

David Zapolsky, Amazon’s Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy & General Counsel

The CCYJ Maleng Advocate for Youth Award breakfast recognizes the Maleng Advocate Youth Award recipient while celebrating and supporting the ongoing critical work of CCYJ to create better lives for generations of children and youth by reforming the child welfare and youth criminal legal systems.

CCYJ established the Norm Maleng Advocate for Youth Award in 2008 to honor the memory and inspiration of CCYJ co-founder and former King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng, after his passing in 2007. Norm was a highly respected and unflagging advocate for children and youth. The Advocate for Youth Award recognizes those who, like Norm, show exemplary leadership, dedication, advocacy for, and commitment to the youth and families of Washington who become involved in our youth criminal legal and child welfare systems.

Host or Publisher Center for Children & Youth Justice