About

Gregg Volz has been a public interest lawyer for 40 years. While a Stoneleigh Foundation Fellow he developed a model for Pennsylvania youth courts. He provides youth court training to Delaware Law School students who volunteer in Delaware County high school and middle school youth courts Since 2013 he has provided youth court instruction to more than 150 DLS students.He has helped school districts develop youth courts in ten Pennsylvania counties, and trained thousands of K-12 students to operate youth courts since 2007.He organized multiple seminars/webinars on youth courts, published two manuals on youth court instruction, and helped author a youth court bill for Pennsylvania - which was recently introduced in the PA Senate. See SB 219.

In Indiana he founded and was the first President of the Evansville Coalition for the Homeless which formed nonprofit organizations to provide housing and medical services to homeless and indigent citizens. He has received awards from the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the PA Council of Social Studies, and social work and community economic development organizations for his advocacy. He specializes in crafting and implementing solutions to help disadvantaged citizens. He has authored/co-authored a half dozen law journal articles on homeless solutions, job strategies to reduce welfare dependency, the need for citizen participation to stimulate social justice in resource poor neighborhoods, and the use of trauma-informed and restorative youth courts to defeat the school-to-prison pipeline. He is employed by Harcum College as Director of Youth Courts. As an adjunct professor at the Delaware Law School he designed a systems change course (Community Impact Lawyering) and taught Legal Problem Solving and public interest externships..