2/21 WEBINAR: Join us and @creativeresco to learn about the ways in which creating art and safe spaces with peers can support the well-being and leadership of young people. Register here: https://t.co/4XgVXo4XSZ
Our co-organizer has been protecting this important space for collective morning and grief. Learn more and continue to ask @PhilaParkandRec to listen to community members!
Officials planned to remove a memorial in Clark Park for Palestinians killed in the ongoing conflict with Israel due to a policy limiting how long displays can remain in public parks.
The city temporarily postponed those plans on Tuesday amid pushback.
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Pick up a free copy of Picturing Home: Housing as Harm Reduction at #HousingFuturesMonth Philadelphia Activation!
You can also find a free downloadable copy of the zine in our bio on instagram!
https://t.co/hFxHjjSV7W
The sheriffs are coming tomorrow morning to try and break up our month long protest encampment on behalf of the landlord. This evening you are invited out to come and celebrate the community we've built together
Join us on Thursday, August 11th with the @OCOSphl coalition for a Listen & Learn session with the PSD Superintendent, Dr. Tony Watlington!
Parent Session: 12 pm to 1:30 pm
Youth Session: 5:30 to 7 pm
Language Translation Provided
RSVP here: https://t.co/kmLtVTsRIv
In case you missed it, a judge ordered the clearance of the protest encampment at the @saveuctownhomes last Friday.
The Sheriff will likely be showing up this week to clear it. Townhomes residents are asking supporters to be ready to turn out and defend
🧵: Today marks the national roll-out of 988, the 3-digit # people can call when they or others are experiencing a mental health crisis. This thread discusses what 988 is and why it's important to be critical of its implementation, centering voices of lived experience. 1/
CRY youth leader Natalie Ionescu sat down with the new cohort to talk about their art exhibition
@PhillyCAM
studios last evening.
Catch the panel on our FB page➡️ https://t.co/qTKVbandDW
Don't miss the CRY exhibit, which is currently on display
@PhillyCam through Sep. 15th!
Our staff is sitting with the unimaginable grief and violence to come as the result of this Supreme Court ruling. We don’t have the words yet to describe our pain or processing, but know this: ABORTION IS STILL LEGAL IN PA. Check out our toolkit for more:
https://t.co/XE3pE2hLZO
📣 Next Monday, young people will gather in Harrisburg to call on lawmakers to end youth incarceration in Pennsylvania. Nearly one year after the Juvenile Justice Task Force released its report, our state’s juvenile justice system remains broken.
In their SSRC-funded project, Alex Sanchez, Theo Loftis, @jennyjjlee, Amelia Mauldin, @andrea_ngan, Bo Guang, & Jessa Lingel conducted interviews with contact tracers and BIPOC tracees in Philadelphia and Providence. Learn more. https://t.co/kBomEmIfmY
The Philly Homes 4 Youth Coalition and Ras Stanford are doing some incredible work to ensure young people in crisis have the resources they need. Learn more at https://t.co/8wX5WFxz3P and the article below ⬇️
“Tens of millions in federal COVID-19 relief funding is currently up for grabs in Philadelphia, and [a coalition of homeless youth want] to ensure at least 20 percent of the money goes to youth services.”
https://t.co/TUWDodk411
There is *truly* no better irony than the updated DSM-5 creating a medical diagnosis for prolonged grief in a country that refuses to face it’s own present reality with mass death. AKA, “you have an illness if you can’t get on with life like the rest of us.”