Youth, Police & Community

Strategy

Promote opportunities for police and communities by:

Aligning and coordinating the various efforts where community and organizations are working with law enforcement agencies

Word is Bond | Know Your Rights - Giving Youth A Voice

Part of the Word is Bond, Know Your Rights, training series. In this video, community ambassadors stress the importance of police officers giving youth a voice during encounters. False assumption: If you dress nice, talk polite, and do what the officer says you will be safe. Black people have been well-spoken, dressed nice, and still been detained, harassed, and killed. This video does not guarantee your safety or outcome during an encounter with police officers.

This strategy was led by Word is Bond and the Multnomah Youth Commission. Both groups were extremely active in the community in 2018, with activities designed to develop the youth voice as well as putting youth in positions to have their voice heard. Activities have included:

Hosting a LPSCC meeting
Attending the breaking barriers dinner with PPB
Actively participating in the implicit bias training provided to 400 PPB officers
Participating in the family picnic hosted by the Parent Partnership strategy
Summer internships
Participating in law enforcement training exercises
Producing a series of “Know your Rights” videos
Participating on the mentor gathering’s youth panel
Leadership development

Gresham Listening Session Flyer (1).pdf

In 2019, the Multnomah Youth Commission and Word is Bond, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation through the Center for Social Inclusion (GARE) grant presented data on ‘Uncovering Our Police System: A Narrative by Urban/Suburban Youth of Color in a State Based on White Supremacist Ideals’ to LPSCC in December of 2019.

The work between youth, police and community also continues through the Portland Committee on Community Engaged Policing (PCCEP) Youth Subcommittee who are working on surveys on best practices for police working with youth and increasing restorative justice.

Youth lead organization, Raising Justice previously known as Youth Educating Police (YEP) heard the community and shifted their work to expand to juvenile justice and will be working more closely with LPSCC to help re-center the conversations at the YGV table around youth issues, more critically, and with a broader set of youth participating to help create effective policy for the juvenile justice system. Stay tuned!

The No Hate Zone, Breaking Bread- Breaking Barriers 3 year Anniversary

Youth Building Positive Relationships with East County Law Enforcement

Mentors Empowering Mentor Network

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