Foster Care Training

Training Summary: The school-to-prison pipeline (STPP) is often seen as a linear, doomed path for young minorities from school to prison. System-involved youth experience correctional behaviors and consequences while they are still in school, mirroring a future path to prison. This training will cover three main sections regarding the creation, evolution, and sustainability of the STPP. The first will highlight the history of the STPP and the ways this has changed over time. The second section will focus on the policing and punishment of Black and Brown children in school settings and its effects on adolescence which leads to poor health, and academic and social/emotional outcomes. The third will provide tangible ways we can radically challenge the STPP to better serve system-involved youth. Participants will be able to: -Participants will be able to define the school-to-prison pipeline and at least two ways this system disproportionately impacts system-involved youth. -Participants will be able to identify at least two ways that the STPP has evolved over time to keep system-involved youth imprisoned. -Participants will be able to identify at least three ways that schools police, punish, and funnel system-involved youth into prison. -Participants will be able to identify at least two ways CPS has been complicit in the punitive control of system-involved youth. -Participants will develop at least three new ways of advocating for system-involved youth who are at the highest risk of entering the STPP