2019 Ambassador Leaders Community Action Plan - Youth Advocating for Fairness
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Student-led community action plan created and presented during an Ambassador Leadership Summit in 2019 at Yale University.
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2019 Ambassador Leaders Community Action Plan - Youth Advocating for Fairness
- 1. Youth Advocating for Fairness A, Allen, Arianna, Cheryl, Cody, Ella, Ethan, Jasper, Kaitlyn, Lana, Levi, Maile, and Taylor
- 4. Juvenile Education: The Lack Of and its Importance
- 5. Lack Of Education In Juvie When kids are locked up they have less educational opportunities than their peers in community schools. - Only 67% of juvenile-justice facilities offer higher level math classes,while 95% of community schools do. - In 2015, 15 states did not require juvies to participate in state education systems. - In some facilities, school lasted only one hour a week. - An analysis by Connecticut’s Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee found that the state’s education of youths in the juvie system was “fragmented and expensive”, lacking quality standards, monitoring, accountability, specialization, and expertise. - Their system “let youth slip during transitions.”
- 6. The Importance Of Better Education In Juvenile Delinquency Centers Education is important for the personal, social, and economic development for the individual and their community. Students come out of the Juvenile Justice System in worse shape than when they enter, struggling to return to school or get their lives on track -Steve Suitts, Vice Pres of the Southern Education Foundation. 6/10 students who attend a school in a juvenile facility will never re-enroll in schools upon release.
- 8. Juvenile Accommodations ● 89% of juvenile detention centers are locked facilities versus personally guarded ○ 62% use mechanical restraints (handcuffs, chairs etc.) ● Most common form of detention center: long term secure facilities (equivalent to prisons) ○ Features razor wire fences, pepper/chemical sprays, mechanical restraints, strip searches, and solitary confinement (22-24 hrs/day) ○ Leads to abuse injuries, emotional trauma, physical harm ● 1/10 of detained youth in actual adult prisons ○ More safety risks and less age appropriate services available
- 9. Juvenile Sanitary Products and Food ● Penal code section 6030 (CA): prisoners should have adequate nutritional food service ● Upon the routine checks by the jails committee, by the first 2 visits, an expanded investigation called for ○ Kitchens in disrepair ○ health/safety policies not met ● For the girls in LA County’s juvenile camps and many other detention centers, one of the most troublesome issues was the absence of adequate supplies having to do with their menstrual cycles ● Under Quality Undergarments
- 10. Immigrant Juvenile Detention Centers ● Detention centers for Mexican immigrants are particularly difficult ○ crowded/overpopulated ○ Not enough food ○ Aluminum blankets, threw away clothes ○ Rotting bathrooms, no hygiene products ○ Separate siblings, solitary confinement ○ No health care or help ○ Adelanto, CA ● Trump admin. use mistreatment as deterrence ○ Immigration is harder ○ Metaphorical Wall
- 11. Harassment of Youth in Detention Centers: Sexual Assault, Discrimination, and Immigrants
- 12. Sexual Harassment of Youth in Detention Centers - 12% abused - 93% of the abusers = staffs - Only 404 0f 4279 cases reported in 2008-12, prosecuted - Only 49% of these cases reported were investigated - Most investigated cases only ended up in results such as: - Demoting officers - Disciplinary actions - However, only 4% of these officers were arrested - Kids are afraid to report harassment cases
- 13. Sexual Harassment of Youth in Detention Centers - LGBTQ+ (40%) and youth of color → targeted - The federal (US) received more than 4,500 complaints (immigration) - Trump’s administration (juvenile immigration detention centers) - 2700 children separated family (spring) - Numbers of complaints (minors being harassed by officers) have rose - Trump enacted “zero tolerance” and separation policy - Case studies - AOC (Alexandria Ocasio Cortez) hearing: Guatemalan migrant child died after ICE separated them - Yazmin Juarez’s 1 year old daughter, Marie, died slowly and painfully after medical team in detention centers neglected her medical records - Green Hill School (Chalaris) - Teen boys raped multiple times by counselors (who were women) in detaining centers → state officials ignored lawsuit
- 15. -Marie- 1 year old, died in ICE detention center (diarrhea, vomiting) Felipe Gomez - Alonzo- 8 year old, died in U.S border patrol (flu) -Jakelin Caal- 7 year old, U.S border patrol
- 16. Nonprofits In Support Of Our Cause Youth Justice - Children’s Defense Fund - Their Vision - All children should grow in a safe environment with quality education - Childhood that provides time, learning, and mistakes - Adequate legal representation - Ensure federal resources for youth justice reform - Close youth prisons and invest in restorative, community based solutions - End solitary confinement of children
- 17. Nonprofits In Support Of Our Cause Youth Transition Funders Group Their vision ● Youth in juvenile facilities have fair, effective and age-appropriate treatment ● Improve young people's chances of becoming young successful adults ● Improving community safety Solutions - Seminars to raise awareness - Supporting other non-profits
- 18. Action Plan-Funding and NGO support - Fundraising alongside NGOs. - Sell and auction art/crafts product made by children in juvie centers - Partner and contact political figures in support of our cause - Raise awareness (larger scale) - Government (state/federal) approved - Making it mandatory for schools to donate money to educational programs in juvie - **only schools in which their students are sent to juvie - Volunteers - Events alongside other NGOs (fundings have to be shared)
- 19. Action Plan-Advocating 1. Take this home 2. Communicate with our teachers, peers, and families about the issues 3. Create petitions to get people to volunteer time at these centers for socializing, teaching, and growing. 4. Sign our petition on change.org: Fairness For All In Juvenile Detention Centers (started by anthony cody) follow our facebook/instagram: @youth_advocating_for_fairness and tag: #supportYAFF 5. Giving speeches and organizing events within your own community
- 20. Action Plan-Hands on solution - Contact justice system and have all reported cases re-investigated by third party - Have all staffs reported be suspended from working while case is investigated - Implement learning spaces in detention centers - Have qualified teachers stationed in juvie centers (volunteers and long term) - Contact government: qualify teachers in juvie as professions with secured salary - All education taught must be approved - Provide nutritious meals - Ban solitary confinement - Have qualified counselors in juvie (available at all times → for the abused and traumatized) - Fundings go to lawyers → for children in juvie that’s harassed to be able to prosecute abusers/harassers & for medical check-up (HIV and AIDs)
- 21. Goal/Vision and Why Do We Care? - Receive fair treatments - Re-enter society without trauma - Personal growth - Understand right and wrong - Understand citizen’s rights - proper resources and qualified staffs - End the cycle of abuse, in and out of detention centers
- 22. Challenges and Obstacles We Could Face ● We don’t raise enough money to complete our goal ● Lack of sponsorships/support ● Hostility from lack of understanding and willful ignorance ● Negative feedback ● Government approval ● Lack of cooperation
- 23. * Make the problem well known in your area * Convince family and friends to donate * Volunteer in organizations in your area *Contact government/state officials and present them solutions *Become an advocate What Can You Do to Help? -Bringing it Home-
- 24. They Need Your Help Support Y.A.F.F -Thank you-