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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Our approach to public safety is not working for children, for families, and particularly for Black and brown communities that have been devastated by mental health and substance use health crises, and criminalization. Pass the People’s Response Act Now!
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.
Take Action: Tell Congress to reinstate the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD)
Take Action! Tell Congress to take immediate action and reinstate the national police misconduct database to ensure that officers with histories of misconduct cannot move between departments, causing further harm.
Florida is about to start teaching middle-school students that “Black people benefited from slavery.” This is ludicrous, hateful, racist, and has no place in our schools. We need the DoE to step in and take action.