This Gathering of Leaders 2014 session employed a youth perspective, focusing on the intersecting impact of policies that result in the criminalization of young people of color and the responses that directly confront these negative policies.
Building Movement: Challenging the Criminalization of Youth of Color
1. Building Movement:
Challenging the Criminalization
of Youth of Color
Quabeeny Daniels
Voices of Youth in Chicago
Education
Alexa Bailon
Armendariz
Padres Y Jovenes Unidos
Reynado Martines
Villalobos
Immigrant Youth Coalition
2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Ice Breaker
• World Café Activity
• Q&A
Building Movement:
Challenging the
Criminalization of Youth
of Color
Quabeeny Daniels
@VoyceProject
Alexa Bailon
Armendariz
@PadresyJovenes
Reynado Martines
Villalobos
@Immigrant Power
4. About Voices of Youth in Chicago
Education (VOYCE)
VOYCE is a youth organizing collaborative for education and racial
justice led by students of color from across the city of Chicago.
Some of VOYCE’s key accomplishments include:
●Won a re-write to the CPS Student Code of Conduct ending
automatic 10-day suspensions, cutting the maximum suspension
time in half, and ending arrests for disorderly conduct.
●Led statewide efforts to win a landmark policy change to
address the overuse of exclusionary discipline by expanding data
transparency across all publicly funded schools in Illinois, and
requiring districts in the top 20% of exclusionary discipline and/or
racial disparities to submit improvement plans.
●VOYCE, alongside Alternatives, Inc. and the Chicago Teachers’
Union (CTU) Quest Center, formed the Safe Schools Consortium
(SSC), a collaborative focused on implementing and expanding
restorative justice practices in Chicago Public Schools.
Building Movement:
Challenging the
Criminalization of Youth
of Color
Quabeeny Daniels
@VoyceProject
Alexa Bailon
Armendariz
@PadresyJovenes
Reynado Martines
Villalobos
@Immigrant Power
6. About Padres y Jovenes Unidos
Padres y Jovenes Unidos was formed by parents willing to
organize for educational justice, equity and excellence in
Denver Public Schools.
Some of PJU’s key accomplishments include:
●Successfully passed the Smart School Discipline Act -
designed to end harsh zero tolerance policies, address racial
disparities in discipline, and put a stop to the unnecessary
and unjust criminalization of students of color within
Colorado public schools.
●In 2012, released the Health Justice Report, which details
their parent-led research and demands for better nutrition,
increased food access, and more physical activity for all
students within the Denver Public Schools
●Helped lead policy change which will create an interim
committee to study the issue of school discipline and provide
legislative recommendations for the 2012 session.
Building Movement:
Challenging the
Criminalization of Youth
of Color
Quabeeny Daniels
@VoyceProject
Alexa Bailon
Armendariz
@PadresyJovenes
Reynado Martines
Villalobos
@Immigrant Power
8. About the Immigrant Youth
Coalition
The IYC is led by undocumented youth and immigrants
and students to fight for immigrant rights, education and
against criminalization.
Some of IYC’s key accomplishments include:
●Created the Free the People campaign, an ongoing
campaign in which the IYC and its member
organizations, take cases of people in deportation who
seek help from community organizations.
●Worked to pass and implement the Trust Act, a
polic change that sets a minimum standard across the
state to limit cruel and costly immigration “hold”
requests in local jails.
Building Movement:
Challenging the
Criminalization of Youth
of Color
Quabeeny Daniels
@VoyceProject
Alexa Bailon
Armendariz
@PadresyJovenes
Reynado Martines
Villalobos
@Immigrant Power
9. Building Movement:
Challenging the Criminalization
of Youth of Color
Quabeeny Daniels
Voices of Youth in Chicago
Education
Alexa Bailon
Armendariz
Padres Y Jovenes Unidos
Reynado Martines
Villalobos
Immigrant Youth Coalition
10. Contact Information
Quabeeny Daniels
Voices of Youth in Chicago Education
@VOYCEProject | www.voyceproject.org
Alexa Bailon Armendariz
Padres Y Jovenes Unidos
@PadresYJovenes | www.padresunidos.org
Reynado Martines Villalobos
Immigrant Youth Coalition
@ImmigrantPower | www.voyceproject.org
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