Young people will talk about their vision for safe thriving communities and ending the school to prison pipeline.
YOUTH TOWN HALL
YOUTH TOWN HALL
Our Youth Assembly engages students aged 14-18 and equips them, through an organizing lens, to serve their communities. We know that our young people are brilliant and deserve significant investments in their leadership. Our Youth Assembly Program includes regular organizing meetings, leadership workshops, town halls, and people movement assemblies with young people across the city.
Semi-annually, we hold a Youth Town Hall, led by our students, to identify issues and create action steps towards their goals. Our next Youth Assembly Town Hall is November 11, 2023, at 1:00 PM. During the Youth Assembly Town Hall, students will share their vision of redefining public safety, their policy demands, and their call to action. Youth Assembly members invite community stakeholders and youth in middle and high school to join them to learn more about their analysis and experience with public safety. Youth Assembly members will share their hopes to foster community-driven public safety and answer the call for safer, healed, and thriving communities.
Safe and racially just communities are created through investments in mental and emotional health support services, after-school programming, transformative justice programming, and investments in public goods.
We are creating alternatives to youth arrests, prosecution, and incarceration by organizing youth impacted by school pushouts and/or the juvenile justice system. Safe communities require innovation that should be led by community members and significant investments in student resources and public goods.
