Youth & Family Justice
Educating and mobilizing parents and caregivers across the nation around healthy kids and communities. Our work focuses on healthy schools and public spaces, marketing to kids, healthy drinks, dismantling the school to prison pipeline; amplifying resilience and decreasing trauma with social-emotional development practices in grades K-12.
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Maternal mental health conditions affect over 800,000 U.S. women yearly. Low diagnosis & treatment rates contribute to making suicide a leading cause of death for new moms. Urge our leaders to do more to address this crisis!
We ALL want schools to be safe but we also must be clear that there is no evidence that increasing the number of police in schools actually improves school safety. Instead it takes critical resources from what actually keeps schools safe and helps ALL kids thrive.
Keenan Anderson was killed at the hands of LAPD for trying obtain help for a non-violent event. Instead of treating him like the innocent man he was, the LAPD tased Keenan until he went into cardiac arrest and died. Keenan was an educator in the community and deserves justice. Join MomsRising to demand LA Mayor Bass not reappoint current LA Police Chief Moore.
It's Time to End the Criminalization of Black & Brown Girls in Schools. Tell Congress to Pass the Ending Pushout Act.