Category: Resources
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As We Step Into 2026 — A Giving Statement from The Trespass Project
As 2025 comes to a close, our team at The Trespass Project finds itself grounded in gratitude and optimism for what we know is next.
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The Trespass Project Releases a Nationwide Land Acknowledgment on First People’s Day
Today, we acknowledge that all of the land beneath our country’s carceral institutions—each juvenile detention center, immigration holding facility, and every other site where children are held—is land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Over 1,275 facilities across the United States cage our children, all of which occupy territory taken by force and never returned.
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Youth Justice Action Month Begins
Statement by Molly Reed, Policy Director of The Trespass Project, in recognition of Youth Justice Action Month
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The Weight of a Pallbearer (Poetic Adaptation)
In “Weight of a Pallbearer,” a young Black boy faces a 25-to-life sentence after a coerced act that unintentionally ends in his brother’s death. The narrative moves from the present-tense immediacy of courtroom finality back through memory, pressure, survival, and tragedy, laying out how a single moment can collapse into incarceration. It foregrounds the brutal…
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Protected: We Are Entitled to Our Anger
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Trespass Project Founder Cayden Brown Delivers High School Commencement Address
Remarks by Cayden Brown, student speaker at the Walled Lake Central High School Class of 2025 Commencement Ceremony.
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Get It in Writing
Around the world, young people are told to trust authority. But when promises are broken or consequences come without clarity, the excuse is always the same: “That’s not what I said.” And without proof, it’s your word against theirs. This tool teaches you how to make sure the truth doesn’t disappear.
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Trespass Project CEO Cayden Brown Turns 18
Cayden Brown didn’t wait to change the world. He spent his teenage years fighting for children around the globe. Now, he enters adulthood.
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The Trespass Project Receives Share of $250K Grant
We are proud to publicly announce our $11,575 investment share from The Skillman Foundation’s $250,000 President’s Youth Council initiative, joining a select cohort of 30 groundbreaking organizations that are redesigning the world we leave for our children.
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Cayden Brown Urges Juvenile Justice Reform Before Thousands in the Nation’s Capital
Last week, The Trespass Project took a message to the capital of the United States—again.