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
Joined November 2013
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VOYCE retweeted
25 Jul 2024
🚨 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!
ALT A group picture of 11 Black and Latinx parent leaders posing for a group picture
ALT Six parent leaders sitting during the board meeting
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17 May 2024
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17 May 2024
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. 🌟
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VOYCE retweeted
16 May 2024
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
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VOYCE retweeted
23 Feb 2024
🚨🚨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.
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22 Feb 2024
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
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22 Feb 2024
Throughout the expansion of the Whole School Safety program, the steering committee is committed to hosting public comment sessions and supporting schools to develop transitional school safety plans in partnership with students, parents, and the broader community.
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22 Feb 2024
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.
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VOYCE retweeted
2 Nov 2023
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: communitiesunited.org/goc202…
#GOC2023 #AGatheringofCommunities #HealingThroughJustice
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11 Oct 2023
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Chicago’s Blueprint for Safe Schools: A Community-Led Process panel discussion!
Watch full panel discussion: youtu.be/1OU7gh9bqog?feature…
#WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #SROs #ChicagoPublicSchools
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VOYCE retweeted
28 Sep 2023
Can't join the Chicago’s Blueprint for Safe Schools: A Community-Led Process panel discussion in person? No problem!
Watch live: cityclub-chicago.org/live
#WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #SROs #ChicagoPublicSchools #WSSxCityClubofChicago
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VOYCE retweeted
28 Sep 2023
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: chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/9…
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27 Sep 2023
Do you plan on joining us tomorrow? 🤔
RSVP: cityclub-chicago.org/event/2…
#WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #chicagopublicschools
@CommsUnited @MikvaChallenge @buildchicago @ChiPubSchools @COFIOnline @CityClubChicago
27 Sep 2023
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: cityclub-chicago.org/event/2…
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25 Sep 2023
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
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25 Sep 2023
Coalition partners: @MikvaChallenge, @buildchicago, @ChiPubSchools, @ARKofStSabina, and @COFIOnline.
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22 Sep 2023
For over three years, we have been a part of the CPS’s Whole School Safety steering committee advocating for the implementation of the Whole School Comprehensive Safety Plans (1/3). #WholeSchoolSafety #RethinkingSafety #SROs #ChicagoPublicSchools #WSSxCityClubofChicago
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22 Sep 2023
Coalition partners: @ARKofStSabina, @buildchicago, @COFIOnline, @MikvaChallenge, and @ChiPubSchools.
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