Students, parents, teachers and allies addressed Fresno Unified’s school board members during a school discipline workshop on April 10th. Their message: restorative justice is the answer to keeping students in school, learning.
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WeConnect, an event held on Feb. 16 at the Fresno Fairgrounds, helped people with health care enrollment and it was also a resource fair. Many families came out to the event to learn more about health care changes and get resources like tax preparation and flu shots.
Watch youth leaders from Fresno and Merced share their work in a half-hour special on Kids Count, a program on Valley PBS. SUCCESS youth share their work to improve Fresno schools in the first part of the show, and We’Ced Youth Media’s young leaders explain their role as Merced’s youth journalists in the second half.
Young men in Fresno’s BMoC create skate deck art with a purpose and turn tagging skills into something positive for the community.
Looking recently at the news one does not have to go very far to see that gun control and gun violence is a hot topic. With the recent shooting of schoolchildren in Newtown, the gun control debate rages on with renewed vigor. The gun debate has also seen some new policy developments.