Join us at the 2025 JJAM Mid-Winter Conference!
🗓️ Dates: March 26-27, 2026
📍 Location: DoubleTree By Hilton – Bay City Riverfront, Bay City, MI
Our Featured presenter this year is Jeff Wallace, MCJ
Jeff Wallace, MCJ, brings a rare combination of lived experience and professional expertise to juvenile-justice audiences. After entering the system as a youth and later spending six years incarcerated (four of those in solitary confinement), Jeff earned a Master of Criminal Justice and built a career focused on improving outcomes for young people.
He has served as a social worker and crisis interventionist, taught as an assistant professor of criminal justice, and worked as a youth-facility inspector just to name a few of the roles that have given him a practical, systems-level perspective.
Jeff’s TEDx talks and public presentations are well received by juvenile-justice professionals. He continues to serve in leadership roles that support reform and improved outcomes for youth affected by the system. He is the founder of Jeff Wallace Speaks LLC and is regularly invited to speak to multidisciplinary audiences across juvenile justice, child welfare, corrections, and community services.
🔹 Day 1 – March 26, 2026
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Jeff Wallace – “Thriving After Resiliency” moves beyond familiar trauma-informed language to focus on how anyone can sustain positive change. Jeff blends personal insight with proven approaches and provides straightforward strategies and tools attendees can apply immediately, professionally and personally.
🔹 Day 2 – March 27, 2026
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Dr. Thomas Holt – Professor in the school of criminal justice, Michigan State University. “What Juvenile Justice Professionals need to know about Cybercrime and Online Juvenile Delinquency matters.”
Day 2 Presenter Bios
Julie M. Krupa is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University and a core member of the Youth Equity Project. Broadly, her research focuses on health and social disparities among justice-involved youth and young adults. She applies a community-engaged, action research approach to examine local issues of violence and disparities in the juvenile justice system. She is particularly interested in the intersection between public health and juvenile justice, unmet health needs among marginalized youth and young adults, and program evaluation. Dr. Krupa and her colleagues are currently working with justice and community-based agencies in and outside of Michigan, to better understand and inform system responses to violence, delinquency, and youth needs. Dr. Krupa’s research has been funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Institutes on Drug Abuse, City of Detroit, and Michigan Public Health Institute.
Thomas J. Holt is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, and the Director of the Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training which provides training on technology and crime issues for criminal justice agencies across the state of Michigan. His research focuses on all forms of cybercrime and the policy response to these issues, and has been published in academic and professional journals across various disciplines. Dr. Holt is also the co-host of the Crossing the Firewall podcast, which covers various cybercrime and cybersecurity issues in an approachable way to improve public awareness on these problems.
Karen Holt, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and criminologist in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. She received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in forensic psychology and holds a master’s and doctoral degree in criminal justice. Dr. Holt’s research focuses on sexual deviance, sexual offending, and sexually motivated violence. She has presented her research at both national and international criminology conferences. Her professional membership affiliations include both Michigan and the national chapters of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA), the American Society of Criminology, The Homicide Research Working Group, The International Homicide Investigators Association, The Center for Gender in a Global Context, The Research Consortium on Gender-Based Violence, The Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She has developed and co-presented trainings on typologies and theories of sexual offending, and pornography use and sexual offending, cold case investigation, and homicide and death investigation. She recently received funding from the Michigan State Police to develop offender-focused knowledge and investigation practices for the Michigan Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.
🥇 Awards, networking opportunities, and lunch are included.
🎟️ Don’t miss out on this chance to learn from the best!
