To this end, we, the members of JJTA, commit ourselves to the following standards of conduct:

• Using our knowledge, experience, and skills to assist staff in their professional development.
• Improving public understanding of human resource development, management and juvenile justice.
• Contributing to the continuing growth of the Association and its members.

• Taking responsible steps to provide and/or arrange for continuing education and professional development for all staff.
• Seeking to enhance participants' capacity and opportunity to identify and address their own training needs.
• Using adult learning and positive climate-setting principles to ensure participants' ability to learn and take necessary risks while in training.

• Keeping informed of pertinent knowledge and competence in the training and staff development field; providing accurate, complete, current and unbiased information.
• Providing services and representing ourselves as competent only within the boundaries of our education, training, license, certification or other relevant professional experience.
• Clearly distinguishing, in both written and oral public statements, between personal opinions and opinions representing the Association, our own institutions, or other organizations.
• Taking responsibility and credit, including authorship credit, only for work performed; acknowledging the work of and contributions made by others.
• Complying with all copyright laws and the laws and regulations governing our work.
• Maintaining and promoting high standards of training.
• Promoting and facilitating evaluation and research to contribute to the development of knowledge.

• Carrying out and completing, in a timely manner and with the highest quality, any Association responsibilities we agree to accept; responding promptly to inquiries and requests by mail, telephone, fax or email.
• Making and honoring clear professional-client agreements, including compensation, timing and method of payment, schedules and methods of communication, and assurance that unused fees are returned promptly if a client elects to stop or suspend our services.
• Using Association offices, titles, and professional associations only for the conduct of official business.
• During the course of conducting work on behalf of the Association, making the Association's role clear and prominent, and not soliciting related personal work.
• Not presuming a client's endorsement without obtaining explicit approval.
• When using Association-produced materials and resources, ensuring that due credit and any required materials fees are submitted to the Association.
• Not disclosing confidential information entrusted to us by the Association, or by our clients or gained through our Association work, and advising the client of any circumstances that might influence our judgment or objectivity.
• Seeking and being open to feedback from clients and collaborators.

• Treating each person in a caring and respectful fashion.
• Obtaining education about, seeking to understand, and designing training that protects the civil and human rights of all individuals with respect to race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, political belief, education level, value system, religion, and mental or physical disability.
• Recognizing our own cultural and value orientations and being aware of how those orientations affect our interactions with people from other cultures.
• Not exploiting, threatening, coercing, or sexually harassing participants.
• Cooperating with training colleagues and with colleagues of other professions when such cooperation serves the provision of effective services.
• Treating colleagues with respect and accurately and fairly representing the qualifications, views, and obligations of colleagues; avoiding unwarranted criticism of colleagues in communications with trainers or other professionals.