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"There can be no real change without deep, authentic relationships." How do you tear down oppressive systems, raise communities out of poverty, and solidify real, lifelong change? It starts with relationships. Sounds easy right? The reality is that relationships are complex, heartbreaking, messy, beautiful and most of all key to creating long lasting change. Come and hear from the students and coordinators on The Future Is Us Team on how we use relationships to empower students to build up their community and dismantle the school to prison pipeline. You'll hear real life stories from student

As we collectively seek to address the overlapping health, economic, and racial justice crises made more evident by COVID-19, social connections can be a powerful tool for healing and rebuilding. We must address the rising rates of social isolation which have profound impacts on health and well-being. These impacts are felt most acutely by people who are marginalized because of their race, income, location, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Isolation is also exacerbated by commonly-experienced disruptive events such as changes in a person’s family, home, or employment status. Social

The Talk-Story presentation will share the Pili Na Ha or Four Connection Framework developed through a community health center in Hawaii and how it has become a guiding framework in urban youth programming in Honolulu. The presentation will share the intentions, impacts and method in which a Hawaiian indigenous framework for health can inspire program activities that center on post-traumatic growth and resiliency. In addition, how do we pass on stories that can heal, evoke and provoke resiliency? We invite you to come, listen and share stories in our brief time together.

The Citywide Effort to Address Implicit Bias in School Discipline initiative was launched to reduce the number of black school-aged Houstonians in the criminal justice system by creating an aligned vision of equity in school discipline and juvenile justice policies and practices. This effort, led by organizations including Mental Health America of Greater Houston, Leadership for Educational Equity’s One Houston, Harris County Juvenile Probation, City of Houston’s Mayor’s Office, Bloomberg Associates, and Houston Health Department’s My Brother’s Keeper Houston, launched in October 2019 with a