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Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Campaign
The Cradle to Prison Pipeline campaign is a national and community crusade to engage families, youth, community leaders and institutions and those in power in every sector in the development of healthy, educated children. The Campaign advances policies that put children on track to productive adulthood and opposes those that criminalize children at younger and younger ages.
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CDF-NY's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit, "Connecting the Neighborhood-based Dots"
February 11, 2009 - February 11, 2009New York, NY
On February 11, 2009, more than 400 people attended CDF-NY's summit, "Connecting the Neighborhood-based Dots: Promoting Solutions to Dismantle the Pipeline to Prison," at the City University of New York's Medgar Evers College (MEC). The summit focused on public awareness regarding the urgent need to address the systemic issues which are driving children from New York's poorest communities into New York's juvenile detention centers, the need to invest in successful community based alternatives to detention and promising solutions and neighborhood based approaches to dismantling the pipeline.
CDF-NY partnered with the Justice Mapping Center to produce a series of community maps for the summit which dramatically depicted the geographic concentrations of poverty, racial segregation, failing schools, high school suspensions, disconnected youth, foster care placement and juvenile detention. The presentation provided a powerful and compelling frame for the rest of day as the subsequent speakers presented pipeline dismantling solutions such as integrated neighborhood-based supports for children and families, tackling the over-policing of public schools, creating safe and respectful school cultures and re-directing resources from youth jails to community-based alternatives to jails for young people.
The day culminated with a youth panel presenting policy recommendations for dismantling the pipeline. The youth on the panel articulated concrete strategies to dismantle the pipeline and ways to change the lives of young people and the condition in their communities. Prior to the event, CDF-NY and MEC's Center for Women's Development conducted eight interactive workshops with different groups of youth (totaling over 100 youth) to generate and prioritize policy recommendations. CDF-NY plans to use these recommendations to guide our work as we follow up with the summit attendees to implement an action plan to dismantle the pipeline in New York.
Learn more about CDF's Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign or contact CDF-NY at messages@cdfny.org.
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