tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893090147187570452024-03-14T06:54:42.806-07:00Criminal Justice & Youth Outreach (CJYO)VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-6309072683153333072020-08-07T15:54:00.001-07:002020-08-07T15:54:25.895-07:00Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gangs-El-Paso-Ju%C3%A1rez-Borderland-History/dp/0826361099" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="855" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfpcAiPDzGnTmEq_VYuYsZs0et1lUdbkrgi2qza_XzYMzfraU7tXsW-hMFPbjkOFUxI8tQx9fNHT8FO99dYRyIQ2xLxW9IAKGYeZhx7xCP81GbgU6QW9CiI_VDtFEij6f6L27Va4pK25er/s640/gangseptx.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Gangs of the El Paso - Juárez Borderland</b><br />by Mike Tapia <br /><br />Amazon: <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gangs-El-Paso-Ju%C3%A1rez-Borderland-History/dp/0826361099/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=gangs+el+paso+texas&qid=1596840530&sr=8-1" target="_blank">click here</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"The chronology I cover begins with the neighborhood-based societies of poor, streetwise El Paso youth in the 1920s and 1930s, moving through the decades to examine changes in each distinct era of this durable barrio gang subculture." - Mike Tapia</div><p></p>VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-89244124536401452822016-05-29T22:44:00.002-07:002016-05-29T23:12:21.296-07:00Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo and Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>In new memoir, famed Latina writer talks about cancer, bisexuality, son’s imprisonment</i></div>
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“I was adamant about not addressing my own life,” Castillo said in a telephone interview from Chicago. “But there came a time, as a teacher of memoir writing, to walk my talk.”</div>
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Castillo thought of herself as a failed mother when her son, a model student, was convicted for robbery and sent to prison. He put his life back on track after serving time.</div>
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“It was probably the most painful experience I have ever felt. As a mother, we desire to keep our children safe and to provide not only the things they need but also to provide them with a certain life in which we hope they are not feeling pain or suffering,” she said. “It’s difficult to do that as a single parent, especially when you’re a Latina, because there’s so much criticism against our culture and women.”</div>
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<b>Highlights from Lindsay Anderson's El Paso Times Article titled "EPISD trying to stem 'jarring number of students removed for discipline" published June 27th, 2015</b></div>
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"El Paso Independent School District sends <b>twice as many students </b>to alternative settings because of discipline problems than all other school districts in the county combined." Administrators describe this issue as "jarring".</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">EPISD had 2,213 alternative placements 2013-2014 in on or off campus alternative education programs.</span></b> The numbers rivaled larger school districts in cities like Austin, Forth Worth and San Antonio's northside.</div>
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EPISD alternative education placements totaled more than<b><span style="font-size: large;"> 3.3% of student enrollment</span></b>.</div>
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Combined other El Paso County school districts totaled 1,381 alternative placements, 1% or 2% of enrollment.</div>
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No. 1 in the state is Arlington Independent School District, major urban district with 7% enrollment.</div>
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Reasons for ending up in alternative education include bringing weapons to school, or minor offenses such as "persistent misbehavior'. </div>
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Alternative placements in El Paso include LaFarelle Alternative Middle School and Raymond Telles Academy.</div>
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There were also 140 elementary school alternative placements 2013-2014.</div>
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Anderson writes that administrators feel <b><span style="font-size: large;">"students placed in alternative setting are more likely to encounter law enforcement and be prospective criminal offenders." </span></b> Also <b><span style="font-size: large;">"less likely to graduate on time or graduate at all"</span></b> according to Ray Lozano, EPISD executive director for school leadership operations.</div>
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The article distinguishes <b><span style="font-size: large;">"discretionary removals"</span></b> as removals that can be for anything including fights or misbehavior.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">EPISD reported 1,524 discretionary removals 2013-2014.</span></b> Bigger than all other Texas school districts except Arlington and Houston. Dallas has 170,000 students had reported only 683 discretionary removals.</div>
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EPISD principals and administrators decide to pilot a national framework called Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support. The issues in EPISD raises concerns on a national level of the "school to prison pipeline."</div>
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On the PBIS, Superintendent Royce Avery is quoted stating <b>"It's really teaching kids exactly what you want them to do... As parents, we teach our kids what we want them to do and they do it. It's the same philosophy for PBIS."</b></div>
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During the Fall semester of 2014, Criminal Justice & Youth Outreach (CJYO) student, Janet Valdez, did her final presentation on the Prison Performing Arts project. A note from Janet's reflective essay has been noted below. Above you can download a speech given by Agnes Wilcox for the Ethical Society of St. Louis discussing the Prison Performing Arts program and its impact. It's a great audio and I encourage everyone to listen to it. Especially if you conduct creative expression programming in prisons or are interested in playwriting, theater, and Shakespeare. </div>
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This post will be one of many that will acknowledge the work of advocates to include audio you can download and LISTEN to, video, or interviews you can reference. I think this type of information is especially helpful for individuals that are planning, or trying to figure out how to get involved in similar initiatives or even how to start their own in their community. </div>
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Whether you're on a mobile device or your laptop, download the audio above, listen, share, and learn. When people want to know whether creative programming in the justice system "works" and wonder about data... how about the number of years people like Agnes Wilcox have dedicated to the participants of Prison Performing Arts initiatives? How about the number of people that support the program's existence? The number of participants? The number of people that participate and attend the event? Or even the people that learn about the program and are inspired to get involved, or to think about and talk about creative justice with others in ways that promote a new way of how a person thinks about the justice system? </div>
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What I like about this post and future #Advocate posts, is that we can't talk about Agnes without also learning about everyone else that's involved with making a program like Prison Performing Arts exist, including the participants. And in listening to the speech, you'll learn more about its impact in the people served by this program. </div>
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The audio was retrieved from the source noted below:</div>
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"Researching programs for juveniles was a very different experience. In other courses we just read how there’s not enough programs, but we never investigated the types of programs that are offered to the youth. In this course we had to actually look them up and we had to research the program of our preference. In a previous class with professor Lecroy we had to do a project about The Beat Within (TBW). TBW is a program that is offered to youths in different states. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>As criminal justice majors we need to be more informed about the programs that are offered to youths to help them rehabilitate and have a successful re-entry to the community.</b> </span>It’s not necessary to be directly involved in the programs to help them we could support them by donating, or we could create or volunteer with a program in our city."</div>
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A note from CJYO student Janet Valdez </div>
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In addition, I encourage that you check out the interview below which was linked by Janet in her bibliography & notes section of the presentation. I've included Janet's citation below the quote and a link to the interview so you can read in full. Janet's presentation was titled 'Learning through Art'.</div>
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<i>YOU'VE CALLED WHAT YOU DO <span style="font-size: large;"><b>"STEALTH LITERACY."</b></span> </i></div>
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<i>Agnes Wilcox: I love when a new man comes into the group and he's having trouble reading, and three or four guys will say, "Oh, don't worry, it gets easier. You'll be fine in a couple of weeks." There's a member of our company currently who has great difficulty reading and pronouncing words. When we are in a circle reading, Kevin reads very slowly and relies on someone next to him to help him with the difficult words. And every man in the room waits.</i></div>
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Another source to listen to regarding the Prison Performing Arts program you will find on This American Life WBEZ radio archive. <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/218/act-v">http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/218/act-v</a></div>
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-9903241185376072722014-12-14T14:56:00.004-08:002014-12-14T14:57:01.185-08:00Reviewing 'Art Behind Bars' Presentation by Taryn CCJDC Arts Project<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Reviewing 'Art Behind Bars' Presentation by Taryn</b></div>
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Champaign Juvenile Detention Center Arts Project</div>
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An important article to review in understanding the connection between creative expression and juvenile detention. So many quotes to pull out of this write up, stay tuned to our Voices Behind Walls <b><a href="http://twitter.com/vbehindw">Twitter.com/vbehindw</a></b>. See the citation and link below.</div>
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-86638878200487129732014-12-14T12:56:00.001-08:002014-12-14T12:56:21.159-08:00Project P.O.O.C.H. #Positive #Opportunities #Obvious #Change with #Hounds<div style="text-align: center;">
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A video that I wanted to share with you all after viewing Victor's link to the PSA included below. An important look at understanding creative expression through the experiences of not only humans. </div>
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I thought about how the sort of knowledge youth pick up here can hopefully be applied or connected to professional opportunities out there. Hopefully. Check out more on the program at the link below and the video.</div>
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Victor of CJYO conducted his presentation on Project Pooch, learn more here <b><a href="http://www.pooch.org/">www.pooch.org</a></b> and the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. In the Facility History of Victor's presentation he cited an article from the Oregon Herald published in 2013 titled 'MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility Employees Honored for Excellence'. The discussion not only focused on the tone of how the writer acknowledges MacLaren's conflicted past, but also the commentary included in the article which you can read here that gives glimpses to what people experienced that were committed to the facility <b><a href="http://www.oregonherald.com/oregon/local.cfm?id=3651" target="_blank">click here</a></b>. </div>
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<br />VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-81458157632782391682014-12-13T15:25:00.004-08:002014-12-13T15:28:36.001-08:00A Note on the CJYO Fall Semester 2014 & Grading Finals by Instructor Lecroy Rhyanes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week and throughout the weekend I'm grading the final presentations of students enrolled in this semester's <b>Criminal Justice & Youth Outreach (CJYO)</b> course subtitled <b>Creative Expression in Juvenile Detention</b>. The final project is the<i> CJYO Digital Program Presentation</i> and consisted of a semester long study of a creative expression program, juvenile facility, and the community (or communities) from which they coexist. Students posted their presentation on the Canvas Learning Management System Discussion Board and have been reflecting on their research and the presentations of fellow students throughout the month of December. The presentation sections include an Introduction, Responsive Essay, a Demographic Profile of the Program Location utilizing the U.S. Census, research of the Facility's History, a Creative Expression Program Profile, Bibliography & Notes, along with staff interviews (if they were able to get in contact with a program representative), and the sharing of digital multimedia such as Soundcloud audios & YouTube videos.</div>
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My grading process engages in conversation with the students about their findings and gives me the chance to share resources I discovered reviewing their presentations. </div>
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This project provides students an opportunity to understand the purpose of creative expression programs, their history, and present day involvement in communities all around the nation (and in the UK and Australia). In other semesters of CJYO studies also focused on examining creative justice programs from around the world. </div>
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It's a great opportunity to take the time to study and acknowledge what is out there. As an undergraduate, one of the most pivotal moments in my educational career was learning about programs and people that shared a common interest with what motivated me to get involved in the justice system. It's a great way to understand how advocacy and creativity function in a system as stringent as corrections and as detached from the community as some juvenile justice systems are. It's also about helping students develop what I call their research personality so that they can include a piece of themselves in what they're learning/presenting. Whether it has to do with their personal views and experiences of the justice system, or the next steps in their own justice journey. </div>
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To me its a unique way to bring online learning to life and to hold each other accountable to the information we're taking in. I feel there is a sense of responsibility in how we present ourselves to the justice system, whether we aspire to work for it, change it, or both. </div>
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Therefore, in the next couple of days, you will see a variety of posts throughout the day, early morning, and on into the night about programs and facilities around the United States including links, videos, audios, newspaper attachments, and other.</div>
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A special thanks to the students of CJYO 2014. <b>This is tenth course I've facilitated as an adjunct instructor at NMSU with a group that makes up an enrollment body of 124 students solely for CJYO.</b> There are also enrollments for students of <b>The Beat Within</b> <b>(TBW)</b> courses and the <b>Juvenile Justice Outreach & Community Education (JJOCE)</b> courses during the summer. In the Spring, we'll also be welcoming the beginning of a newly developed course titled <b>Criminal Justice & Families (CJF), Understanding the Prison Family Journey</b>. This course will be co-facilitated with the authors of <i>The Unvarnished Truth About the Prison Family Journey</i>, Carolyn Esparza and Phillip Don Yow, Sr. with the goal of not only engaging in a close reading + discussion of the text... but also contributing to the development of a community resource guide, student guide, and teacher guide during the summer and Fall of 2015. </div>
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I'd like to congratulate all students celebrating this evening after the commencement ceremony this afternoon and to those that will be returning next semester for CJF, we look forward to welcoming the new year with you. </div>
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<b>In Their Own Words: Young People’s Experiences in the Criminal Justice System <br />and Their Perceptions of Its Legitimacy</b></div>
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Since 2011, the CJYO coursework has involved students developing Youth Program Proposals that follow a set of specific steps and requirements highlighted in this report. Along with being a good resource for learning about mentoring, including other available resources, this can also compliment projects that involve proposing a community based geared towards serving youth. Will continue reading... So for noted its emphasis on high quality mentoring as promoting positive behaviors and attitudes as well as defining mentor roles that are built on consistency, endurance, and instead of the term "close", I'd prefer to utilize a term like "genuine". Other notes in the report characters the mentor relationship as one characterized by mutuality, trust, and empathy "that spans a signficant period and is focused on the young person's interests and preferences. </div>
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-11143173850370855002014-09-18T18:08:00.002-07:002014-09-18T18:08:51.457-07:00Music Lessons May Boost Poor Kids' Brainpower, Study Suggests<div style="text-align: center;">
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Each semester, the energy of the course content ends up connecting with current events and local happenings. Whether it was last semester's visit of Dr. Cornel West to the border community, literally during the same week we were scheduled to begin reading the introduction of Michelle Alexander's <i>The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</i>, or the racial explosion of recent police shootings as we studied the history and impact of the drug war and its relationship to policing and a lock-up process gone bad.</div>
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With this semester's focus on creative expression in juvenile detention, I'd like for everyone to read an article recently published by USA Today, titled "Music Lessons May Boost Kids' Brainpower, Study Suggests". From the onset of course instruction we read and discussed the Carnegie Hall music report posted <a href="http://cjyo.blogspot.com/2014/05/may-songs-i-have-written-speak-for-me.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and are learning about the adolescent brain through Scott Wier's experience <i>Teaching Behind Bars</i>. </div>
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I hope this article helps you understand the present day momentum and importance of creative expression in not only juvenile detention (justice settings), but the community as well. </div>
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CNN Video: <b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2014/08/22/next-generation-of-civil-rights-leaders-watson-interview-newday.cnn&video_referrer=" target="_blank">click here</a></b><br />
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For students of CJYO and visitors, here's a video with Carlos Watson discussing today's leaders that may be of interest to your goals looking forward in your justice careers. The question is what defines your justice work? Is it Social justice? Criminal justice? Non-profit justice work? Juvenile justice? Creative justice? All of the above? Is there a specific field you'd like to pursue? Most importantly, who is your mentor?</div>
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-53419387911228200852014-09-14T18:35:00.001-07:002014-09-14T18:35:04.836-07:00Researching the Carnegie Hall Report - A TED Talk (Janet) | CJYO 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TED Talks w/ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: <b><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jayne_blakemore_the_mysterious_workings_of_the_adolescent_brain#t-379361" target="_blank">click here</a></b></div>
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The Sarah-Jayne Blakemore TED resource was
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Carnegie Hall report titled "May the Songs I Have Written Speak for Me,
An Exploration of the Potential of Music in Juvenile Justice". Connects
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quite profound development, and this has implications for education, for
rehabilitation, and intervention. The environment, including teaching,
can and does shape the developing adolescent brain, and yet it's only
relatively recently that we have been routinely educating teenagers in
the West. All four of my grandparents, for example, left school in their
early adolescence. They had no choice. And that's still the case for
many, many teenagers around the world today. Forty percent of teenagers
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So what's sometimes seen as the problem with adolescents — heightened
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-60430134300846028002014-09-11T22:41:00.005-07:002015-03-25T12:12:12.916-07:00Raising the Bars by Scott Wier | 9.2 Who Is Scott Wier? (Akeisha)<div style="text-align: justify;">
One of the initial activities in CJYO this semester involves digging for background info on this Fall's lead text, <i>Teaching Behind Bars</i> by Scott Wier. Below is an article found by Akeisha titled "Raising the Bars: Professor Recounts Teaching Inside the Prison System". See the link below for the full read.</div>
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"Years after, when I would lecture on the subject of conduct disorders as part of my Abnormal Psychology course, the response from the undergraduate population was inspirational. Granted, they made it clear it had less to do with the academic subject matter and more about the stories I would share from my years spent with inmates and guards that dovetailed with the text." </div>
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Wier, Scott. <b>"Raising the Bars: Professor Recounts Teaching Inside the Prison System."</b> Western News 4 April 2013. Web. 11 Sept 2014. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2013/April/raising_the_bars_professor_recounts_teaching_inside_the_prison_system.html">http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2013/April/raising_the_bars_professor_recounts_teaching_inside_the_prison_system.html</a></span></div>
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<br />VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-17522548669019835252014-09-03T17:18:00.000-07:002014-09-03T17:18:07.208-07:00Technology, Imagination, and Organizing With Storytelling<div style="text-align: justify;">
This post is for CJYO students from the Fall semester of 2013 and activities related to the subtitle of the course last year, "Connecting Memoir to Social Change".</div>
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This week, the last entry in the Storytelling Summer series, I’ll answer two questions:</div>
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How can we frame the need for new and fair revenue to improve outcomes for youths, given opposition to taxes and the counternarrative against investment in public institutions such as schools?</div>
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I’ve been involved in storytelling projects for almost 20 years, and the most heartening trend I see is that change-makers are thinking more in terms of stories.</div>
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Stories have always been with us, of course, but more populist storytelling has been given a boost in the last two decades by projects and programs like This American Life, The Moth, and StoryCorps. In the public-interest sector, there’s the excellent work of people like storytelling trainer and strategist Andy Goodman and community organizer and Harvard professor Marshall Ganz, with his leadership-development method of “<b>Public Narrative</b>.”</div>
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As a result of this and other work, we have a nonprofit world that is more attuned to the value of good stories to rally support for a <b>cause</b>, build <b>leadership</b>, <b>strengthen communities</b>, and <b>change policy</b>.</div>
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I’m less interested in how storytelling may change with new technology than I am in the principles of good storytelling that transcend medium, such as I’ve written about in previous columns “Don’t Tell a Boring Story” and “Are You Really Telling Stories?” That said, we can’t ignore technological change, and <b>digital tools</b> have already enabled a particular kind of <b>interactivity</b>.</div>
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Users tend to have expectations about certain story mediums: web videos should be short, Vines should be shorter, and viewers should be able to comment, share, rework the original video or create their own video responses. The same is true of social media in written form.</div>
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What’s more important than the medium is the connection you make with your audience—or as the buzz-phrase of a few years ago had it, “the people formerly known as your audience” but now known as your co-creators and respondents. How you make that connection and what technologies you use to do it should be guided by a <b>strategy</b>, but some experimentation with new forms can help keep things fresh.</div>
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What a grant maker once told me about foundations applies to other nonprofits as well: <b>“We’re in an era of constant technological change, and it requires continuous professional development. We don’t have to be ahead of our grantees”—or nonprofits don’t have to be ahead of their stakeholders—“but we can’t be behind them.”</b></div>
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Whatever the medium, stories work if they fire the imagination.</div>
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Just because some stories use interactive technologies doesn’t mean that they achieve their goals any better than a story told at a campfire. To cite a personal example, Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial is still perhaps the most powerful vision of an arbitrary justice system I’ve ever read. That book has shaped my political imagination in ways that no YouTube video or immersive “<b>story environment</b>” like a video game ever has.</div>
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That is because our view of <b>social problems</b> and <b>social change</b> are shaped by our experience and our imaginations.</div>
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Take any issue—such as funding for public education, the topic of our second question—and we each have stories, impressions, fantasies, and personal experiences that fill our minds. One person might think, “I benefited from my public schooling, and I want to pay it forward through my taxes.” Another might say, “Public schools are in ruins thanks to a dysfunctional government. We should starve the beast and privatize education.” Or still another may believe, “I’m sure whatever happens, kids will learn and everything will be fine."</div>
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Such feelings guide our actions in the world: what causes we donate to, which ones we like on <b>Facebook</b> or stand up for in our everyday lives.</div>
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If imagination is the field on which social problems (and change) are played out, then that field is delineated by a frame.</div>
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A <b>frame </b>is an interpretive structure or a way of seeing things. Thinking about the education debate, the frame may be that we have a collective responsibility to make sure all kids get an excellent education.</div>
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A story is what fills the frame and supports it. That may be <b>narratives</b> of people who wouldn’t have succeeded but for public school or of people who paid taxes and saw their communities improve.</div>
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I don’t have a ready answer for how to better frame the question of revenue for public education or what stories to tell to support it. But I do have an idea about what process to follow to create frames and stories.</div>
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Throughout the “Storytelling Summer” series I have written about storytelling mostly as a form of communication in the sense of transmitting a message to an audience. But just as important, storytelling is also a form of organizing.</div>
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Participants in a political campaign or movement come together around shared values as expressed in stories, like the tales from the 1969 Stonewall riots in the LGBT movement. And when people in a movement or campaign deliberately share their own stories, they learn about each other’s experiences and dreams.</div>
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If you solicited stories from your constituents that dramatized the value of public education, you could begin to create a frame. Depending on the kinds of stories you received, a “shared responsibility” frame might begin to take shape, or one of “strong economy through <b>universal public education</b>.”</div>
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This <b>story-sharing</b> could take the form of videos you post on your website, a live open-mic storytelling show, short written narratives, or even Instagram photos that suggest a narrative.</div>
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By facilitating story sharing, you are not only gathering material for a frame and the narratives that fill it, but, as I wrote previously in this series, you are also developing your membership. People become more invested in an organization if they have given a part of themselves, and if you meaningfully incorporate it. <b>Your organization is no longer “those people” – it is me, you, and us.</b></div>
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This is the final installment in the “Storytelling Summer” series. However, Paul VanDeCarr will continue writing periodically for The Chronicle on the topic of storytelling and social change. Submit your topic ideas to paul@workingnarratives.org. Questions used in future columns will be edited and made anonymous.</div>
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Mr. VanDeCarr is the managing director of Working Narratives, an organization that works with advocates, artists, policy groups, media-makers, and others to “change the story” on the big social-justice issues of our time. He is also the author of that organization’s publication<b> “Storytelling and Social Change: A Strategy Guide for Grantmakers”</b>; he is working on a second edition of the guide, this time for nonprofits and activists, and to be released this winter.</div>
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-59923784797174050582014-08-20T16:30:00.002-07:002014-09-11T23:45:24.331-07:00CJYO Creative Expression in Juvenile Detention Fall 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u>NMSU Fall Semester 2014</u><br />
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-86658358287447196962014-07-23T18:51:00.000-07:002014-07-23T18:51:00.067-07:00Hearts & Hands Second Edition Book Release 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On July 26, 2014, Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore will present Hearts & Hands, Second Edition Book Release with Luis Rodriguez at 5 PM. Especially for the 124 NMSU undergraduates that were enrolled in Criminal Justice & Youth Outreach (CJYO), I encourage you all to check out this copy or forward this notice on to others. Here is the for more information on the text and the book release: <b><a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=2acf13a5-e787-4c58-ac5d-07099bb7c354&c=7524c660-a9a1-11e3-b5f3-d4ae52843aae&ch=75b76970-a9a1-11e3-b66e-d4ae52843aae" target="_blank">click here</a></b> In addition, here is a quote from Trini Rodriguez about the book that is featured on the event posting: "Hearts and Hands is a book that belongs in the hands of any person or organization wanting to understand and work with youth and community in a respectful, meaningful way."</div>
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-79731055624248177782014-05-26T22:49:00.003-07:002014-09-11T23:45:11.429-07:00May the Songs I Have Written Speak for Me | Publication<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of our primary readings for the Fall semester of 2014, New Mexico State University, CJ432. Course tentatively titled <i>Criminal Justice & Youth Outreach, Creative Expression in Juvenile Corrections</i>.<br />
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More information on the publication can be accessed from the Carnegie Hall website <b><a href="http://www.carnegiehall.org/BlogPost.aspx?id=4294989920" target="_blank">click here</a></b>! </div>
VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-88794156955129519882014-05-20T09:19:00.002-07:002014-05-20T09:19:49.238-07:00National Criminal Justice Association Webinar Series<div style="text-align: justify;">
Today, I'll be participating in the webinar below. I'm labeling this under Grants Management in an effort to present more resources on funding as it relates to Criminal Justice and social justice. As a volunteer, this might not apply as much, but if you're working in the justice system or for non-profit groups and are involved in planning & development of new funding opportunities, it may be a good learning opportunity. I also understand that the National Criminal Justice Association has a membership costs of $95 annually. The training cost $35 but is free for members (as well as many other online trainings and access). I wish I would've known about these resources while I was enrolled as an undergrad. I'm learning there are many associations that operate on a local, state, and federal level. Through Twitter, I'm also stumbling across a lot of information related to grassroots, community based, and non-profit organizations as well. If you're a justice major and spend a lot of time on the net (or do a lot of research on the net), I'd recommend following these resources and scanning them for info that is relevant to you or specific to a cause you're involved with.</div>
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<b>Grants Management Webinar<br />Getting to Know the New Omni Circular 2 CFR Part 200</b></div>
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National Criminal Justice Association: <b><a href="http://www.ncja.org/" target="_blank">click here</a></b></div>
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In December 2013, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published new guidelines that significantly reform and strengthen Federal grant-making to improve outcomes for the American people while reducing bureaucratic red-tape. The new guidance will affect all new grants awarded after December 26, 2014. The final guidance supersedes and streamlines requirements from OMB Circulars A-21, A-87, A-110, and A-122; Circulars A-89, A-102, and A-133; and the guidance in Circular A-50 on Single Audit Act follow-up. It is located in Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, also referred to as the Omni Circular. This webinar will highlight the most significant changes in the Omni Circular for the Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audits.</div>
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The presenter for this webinar is NCJA Senior Staff Associate Lisa Nine Accordini. Lisa is in her ninth year with NCJA and currently provides training and technical assistance to grantees, subgrantees and stakeholders of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). She obtained her national credential as a certified Grants Management Specialist from the National Grants Management Association in 2012 and will share the latest updates and information on the new Omni Circular presented last month during the NGMA National Conference in Arlington, VA.</div>
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VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-68452631373612113942014-05-19T23:54:00.003-07:002014-05-19T23:54:33.109-07:00In Depth: Luis Rodriguez Book TV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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CSPAN/BOOKTV: <b><a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?318753-1/depth-luis-j-rodriguez&buy=" target="_blank">click here</a></b></div>
VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-7277938405370291222014-04-03T01:06:00.001-07:002014-04-03T01:07:38.312-07:0010th Annual J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium:</b> <b><a href="http://artsci.nmsu.edu/en/j-paul-taylor-symposium" target="_blank">click here</a></b></div>
VBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148180186430352163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-889309014718757045.post-35030884981129350112014-02-12T10:08:00.002-08:002014-02-12T10:08:38.344-08:00How Written and Oral Storytelling Saved MY Life<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>How Written and Oral Storytelling Saved MY Life</b></div>
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Listened in on a webinar by Eric Arauz, author of <i>An American's Resurrection, My Pilgrimage from Child Abuse and Mental Illness to Salvation</i>. Discussed conscious stortelling, G.W.F. Hegal idea of freeing artists of themselves, centering on storytelling, understanding the language of recovery, looking at the body as autobiography. Had an interesting quote "the mind is a time traveler, but the body stays in place and time..." Referenced Gerald Edelman, the idea of narrative failure, referenced Alfred Alvarez and the book <i>The Savage God</i>, as well as Joyner's interpersonal theory, a book titled <i>In an Unknown Voice</i>, and overall the importance to Read, Write, and Speak. Powerful life story and how he utilized writing to get through life's pain and building a sense of advocacy on issues that come from what we've experienced ourselves. Drills the language of compassion and having a language, connection, and a belief in what a person is trying to overcome or help address. </div>
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