Found 8 matches.
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5 Tips for Telling the Story with Nuance, Balance and Dignity for Youth
Tags: Anti-Racism | Media | NJJN Publications
Five tips for journalists to avoid stereotyping youth and creating more context to the stories involving youth in the legal system. This tip sheet is part of NJJN's "Covering the Youth Justice Beat" media education series.
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NJJN's Vision of Justice
Tags: General System Reform | Advocacy | Anti-Racism | NJJN Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
One-page look at the vision of justice for young people the National Juvenile Justice Network is committed to bringing to life, including fully resourcing communities, investing in youth, dismantling racism, implementing accountability for youth that relies on helping youth learn from their mistakes not carceral punishment.
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Police-Free Schools
Tags: General System Reform | Advocacy | Anti-Racism
In "Police-Free Schools," we profile of several jurisdictions that recently removed police from their schools and detail how communities were able to wage successful campaigns and the types of resources schools have implemented in place of law enforcement.
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Radical Self-Care Primer
Tags: Advocacy | Anti-Racism | NJJN Publications
The National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) is committed to fostering a culture of wellbeing, which requires unpacking internalized capitalism and white supremacy to build organizations rooted in healing. While much of the conversation around self-care centers on personal practices and coping skills, NJJN is focused on steps organizations can take to create cultures that support their employees as they seek to transform systems. A key aspect of making this shift is learning how white supremacy culture directly undermines self-care and assessing organizational self-care practices within the Network to ensure advocates are supported in caring for their health and wellbeing.
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The Promise of Racial Impact Statements_NJJNOctober2020
Tags: Iowa | Advocacy | Anti-Racism | NJJN Publications
The research study of Iowa's Minority Impact Statements was conducted by the Community Empowerment Law Project at The University of Iowa College of Law Legal Clinic by original report authors Tristan Gahn, Bryan Porter, and Anthony Dopp. Note that this report is deeply informed by the writings of Tristan Gahn, Bryan Porter, and Anthony Dopp, with edits from Nanyamka Shakura and Jeree Thomas of NJJN's Racial Justice Working Group, NJJN Staff, and NJJN 2020 Summer Interns.
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The Contradiction of Colorblind COVID_19 Relief_ Black America in the Age of Pandemic
Tags: Anti-Racism
a joint report by the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center of Howard University and the Criminal Justice Policy Program of Harvard Law School on COVID-19 recommendations. The report, entitled “The Contradiction of Colorblind COVID-19 Relief: Black America in the Age of Pandemic,” asks Congress to ensure COVID-19 relief sufficiently addresses the harms being done to the Black community.
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From "Superpredators" to "Migrant Gang Bangers": The Criminalization of Young People of Color (PNG)
Tags: Gangs | Immigration | Anti-Racism
We are now in the midst of a similar panic moment, spawned by a federal administration dead set on depicting all young immigrants of color as violent gang members. The Trump Administration has targeted young immigrants by publicly linking gang violence to the "surge" of unaccompanied minors who have entered the United States. Rather than being supported to develop into successful adults, immigrant youth are more often being targeted for arrest, detention, and deportation
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From "Superpredators" to "Migrant Gang Bangers": The Criminalization of Young People of Color (PNG)
Tags: Gangs | Immigration | Anti-Racism
From “Superpredators” to “Migrant Gang Bangers”: The Criminalization of Young People of Color,PNG