By Cecily Sailer and Kelly West, Resolve Magazine, July 1, 2021
Karen Evans is executive director of the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board (CYPB), a coalition of adults and youth who work together to improve outcomes for children and youth in New Orleans Parish. Evans left a career in corporate training and development to work in child welfare, helping develop family centers in public schools and assisting nonprofits refining their programs to meet children and family’s needs. She spoke with Resolve Magazine about the work of the CYPB, efforts in the city to increase trauma-informed education and training, and a larger movement to care for and empower the city’s young people for the benefit of the entire community.
Can you tell us a little bit about the Children and Youth Planning Board and its work?
CYPB was born out of the need for the State of Louisiana to reform its juvenile justice system. We were set up to be the folks who take the symptoms [of trauma] and figure out how to patch over them.
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