About 150 youth turned out Wednesday evening for a teen forum at the University of North Georgia’s Oakwood campus, the first in what the Department of Juvenile Justice hopes will be one of many across the state. A panel of experts in criminal justice answered questions and explained concepts, some of which surprised attendees. “When you take hope from a child, hope from an adult, you’re robbing them of their dignity,” DJJ Commissioner Avery Niles said in opening, speaking to the department’s reform efforts to reduce incarceration and rehabilitate offenders.