Voices of Youth in Chicago Education is a collaborative for education justice led by students of color from 6 community organizations across the city of ChicagoVoyceProject.org ChicagoJoined November 2013
Yesterday, we convened over 100 community members and partners from Chicago to advocate for statewide investment in strategies rooted in healing, wellness, and safety in support of the Grounded in Community: An Agenda For Creating a Healing-Centered State platform. 🌟
🚨 Today, COFI and POWER-PAC IL parent leaders in Chicago are celebrating a transformational shift in education! The Chicago Board of Education approved an expanded Whole School Safety policy!
NOW: Over 100 community members from Austin, Albany Park, Roseland, West Ridge, and Belmont Cragin are traveling to Springfield, IL., to call on state legislators to support the Grounded in Community: An Agenda For Creating a Healing-Centered State platform. #AdvocacyDay
🚨🚨Leader Takeover 🚨🚨
For those of you who don’t know me — my name is Electa Bey and I have been organizing with Communities United for nearly 9 years.
Throughout the years, my organizing efforts have been informed by my own experience with housing insecurity.
Our partner @VOYCEProject spoke to @chalkbeatCHI about shifting to restorative justice practices in CPS. Research shows it's working! The University of Chicago Education Lab found that student arrests in-school fell by 35% in schools that implemented RJ. chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/9/28/2389…
Read @chalkbeatCHI article "Is Chicago’s shift to restorative justice and fewer school police working? Some say yes." to learn about how folks in Chicago are advocating for the implementation of restorative justice practices throughout CPS.
Read: chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/9/28/2389…
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