VOYCE

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 Chicago

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

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. 🌟

[COFI @COFIOnline]

🚨 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!

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

👏🏽👏🏽

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

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. 🌟

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

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

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

🚨🚨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.

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

Whole School Safety Steering Committee - @COFIOnline @buildchicago @ChiPubSchool @MikvaChallenge

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

For over 3 years, as a member of the Whole School Safety Steering Committee, we have worked with students, community members, and CPS, to advocate for and develop trauma-informed holistic school safety approaches.
#WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #SROs #ChicagoPublicSchools

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

Our actions are indebted to student and community concerns, the continuation of community engagement, and the implementation of trauma-informed school safety approaches within the Chicago Public School District.

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

Join us at this year's A Gathering of Communities: Strategizing for a Healing-Centered City conference as we strive to collectively strategize for a healing-centered city.

Learn more: https://t.co/cRreOee2BS

#GOC2023 #AGatheringofCommunities #HealingThroughJustice

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Chicago’s Blueprint for Safe Schools: A Community-Led Process panel discussion!

Watch full panel discussion: https://t.co/xSC7M8zmVW

#WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #SROs #ChicagoPublicSchools

[COFI @COFIOnline]

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. https://t.co/1zPIxOtiON

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

Can't join the Chicago’s Blueprint for Safe Schools: A Community-Led Process panel discussion in person? No problem!

Watch live: https://t.co/lkAdlhQx0V

#WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #SROs #ChicagoPublicSchools #WSSxCityClubofChicago

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

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: https://t.co/z09TJdRP45

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

Do you plan on joining us tomorrow? 🤔

RSVP: https://t.co/U0QLSuP99b

#WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #chicagopublicschools

@CommsUnited @MikvaChallenge @buildchicago @ChiPubSchools @COFIOnline @CityClubChicago

[Communities United @CommsUnited]

Join us TOMORROW!!

Chicago's youth have been at the forefront of creating change on what it means to be safe in schools through CPS’s Whole School Comprehensive Safety Plans. #WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #chicagopublicschools

RSVP: https://t.co/jIt9CASXBj

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

Coalition partners: @MikvaChallenge, @buildchicago, @ChiPubSchools, @ARKofStSabina, and @COFIOnline.

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

Are you curious about CPS’s Whole School Comprehensive Safety Plans? Please join us on Thursday, September 28, to learn about how youth, community members, and CPS administration are redefining school safety. #WholeSchoolSafety #SROs #ChicagoPublicSchools

[VOYCE @VOYCEProject]

RSVP: https://t.co/U0QLSuP99b