Wards of the State: Who Gets to be Kids? The Silenced Stories of our Youth.

Name: Wards of the State: Who Gets to be Kids? The Silenced Stories of our Youth.
Start: 2024-12-01T13:00:00-0800
End: 2024-12-01T15:30:00-0800
Location: 160 M St

Sun, Dec 1, 1pm - 3:30pm PST

160 M St

fresno, united states

All Youth Are Sacred

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Wards of the State: Who gets to be kids?

The Silenced Stories of Our Youth Art Exhibit

1pm-3:30pm

About Exhibit:

Join youth leaders from the All Youth Are Sacred Initiative for an afternoon of art, history, and justice work. During the art exhibit you will experience archived photography that captures the 132 year history of California’s statewide youth prison system, previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA) and California’s Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). The photography encapsulates the inhumane conditions which led to 2023’s closure of DJJ. Despite its closure, local counties are experiencing a ripple effect that is negatively impacting marginalized youth and their families. It is our hope that this exhibit sheds light on a dark part of California history, while lifting up what we hope to see for the future of juvenile justice.

This exhibit shines a light on the opportunities within communities to shift away from youth incarceration, unleash youth power, and create spaces youth are embraced as sacred individuals. Special thanks to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice for archiving the powerful history depicted.

Art and live performances will be available. Food and drinks will be provided. Join us from 1pm-3:30pm and be inspired!

For questions and inquiries please contact us at youthnarrativepower@gmail.com.

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The All Youth Are Sacred (AYAS) Narrative Power Building Initiative was established by a core group of youth justice advocates within the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice (CAYCJ) coalition. Our mission is to empower youth to tell their stories and tackle criminalizing narratives that fail to capture the decreasing numbers of youth arrest and incarceration.

AYAS seeks to build and nurture power at the local and state level through a shared framework that shifts the belief that young people should be punished when they make mistakes, and holds that healing and rehabilitation happens in the community, not through confinement and carceral systems.

Our initiative believes that if ALL youth are seen through the lens of sacredness and valued as such, then funding priorities will shift toward community-led solutions, policy priorities will shift and transform from punitive approaches, and we would build a “village” response to hold that young person.

Our approach to safety would transform to reflect that it is an entire community’s responsibility to provide young people, and by extension their families, with the basic needs to ensure they are set up for success rather than failure and incarceration.

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