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Care Not Cops: Youth Safety Planning in a World Without Policing

Part of the The Janine Soleil Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute (AYO, NYC!)—a collaboration between Project NIA & EFA Project Space.

For this session we will engage in a safety planning skill-share by focusing on how to use the Bay Area Transformative Justice Pod-Mapping Tool. We will also collectively strategize how to cultivate safety without relying on policing, child protective services or other healing barriers created by mandated reporting laws. This session will be as interactive as you like – join in on the conversation or listen in as others share their ideas – all are welcome.

Facilitator: Santera Matthews is a queer mixed indigenous (Keewenaw Bay Ojibwe) organizer born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Her work focuses on supporting people who are criminalized for acts of self-defense, facilitating and supporting restorative and transformative justice processes and supporting LGBTQ people who are incarcerated in Wisconsin with her work as an organizer with Black and Pink.

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