In the summer of 2025, CRYJ will extend the impact of its established and award-winning restorative justice work into the Missoula community
Welcome New Missoula staff - Kaya Juda-Nelson
Kaya Juda-Nelson was hired as a Site Director for CRYJ’s Missoula programming in early 2025. She comes to CRYJ with a deep relationship to the Missoula community and a breadth of experience working with youth programs in Missoula’s nonprofit ecosystem. While CRYJ’s leadership has been working closely with Missoula-based partners for quite some time, Kaya is the first Missoula-based staff member. CRYJ is also currently hiring additional staff for our Missoula site!
History & “Why Missoula?”
We’ve been hearing it for a long time: “CRYJ should be everywhere.” Our funders and collaborators have long-encouraged CRYJ to extend its services into additional Montana communities, leveraging our decades of success to impact a greater population of Montana. Well, here we are! Collaboration with Missoula stakeholders identified a unique need, as well as an ecosystem of adjacent services that make Missoula the perfect place to pilot a programmatic expansion!
Missoula Gives
As CRYJ joins Missoula’s nonprofit community, there are many ways to support the work we are doing in the Missoula Community! You can impact CRYJ’s work in Missoula through the 2025 Missoula Gives campaign. We’ll also be in town for the May 1st kickoff party at Plonk; stop by and say hello!