Join us for an encore of PACEs Connection’s “School-to-Prison Pipeline Using a Trauma-Informed Lens”, our first-ever interdisciplinary collaborative event!
In this informative and interactive event, we explore the many contributing factors to our country’s school-to-prison pipeline, including outdated understandings of behavior, lack of knowledge about trauma and adversity, unexamined bias, increased presence of school police, exclusionary discipline practices, and more.
We also discuss how a trauma-informed approach at the school and community level can address the troubling phenomenon of school being step toward prison for many children, instead of being a safe, stable, nurturing and educational experience that leads to job skill creation, becoming ready for higher education, and ultimately having the intellectual and emotional skills to be ready for work.
This event is a great example of the multi-sector approach and is moderated by PACEs Connection’s trauma-informed education consultant (Lara Kain) and trauma-informed criminal justice consultant (Dr. Porter Jennings-McGarity). Our special guest is Tia Martinez.
This two-hour session provides an informational overview of the school-to-prison pipeline and concludes with an interactive discussion where participants:
- Examine our collective beliefs concerning behavior and how the predominant misconceptions about behavior contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Explore school discipline data and how the disproportionate application of exclusionary discipline adversely affects BIPOC youth and youth with disabilities.
- Learn how the system-wide implementation of equity-centered and trauma-informed practices, policies and procedures can disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
All registrants will also receive all materials discussed in the session!
About our guest: Tia Elena Martinez has over 25 years of experience working for social justice in working-class communities of color in the United States. Over the decades, her work spanned a wide range of issues, including mass incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline, K-12 education, the HIV epidemic, the war on drugs, homelessness, affordable housing, disconnected youth, and immigration. She is currently the Managing Director of Organizing Roots, an organization that seeks to advance racial, gender, economic, and health justice by providing grassroots groups with a potent combination of capacity building and coaching on conscious organizing and movement building, strategy development, and data.
Cost: $20
Register HERE via Eventbrite
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