Resource Library

BEYOND DIFFERENCES

We will be sharing FREE curriculum and activities that are the building blocks of Beyond Differences' days of action (Know Your Classmates, No One Eats Alone and Be Kind Online.) Resources generated by students through Beyond Differences Student Clubs and the Beyond Differences Teen Board will also be shared.

CHCP Nourishes

CHCP Nourishes will exhibit the solution criteria by hosting Cypress Hills, Family Feeds Information session. This will help educate and inform the Community by incorporating the recipes from the CHCP Nourishes digital cookbook/pamphlet to ensure that families can lead a healthy lifestyle in the every Community.

Conflict Resolution and Mediation Program 

Hip Hop 4  

Freshmen

We provide a curriculum program teaching middle school and high school students entrepreneurship through music. Our most popular program, “Hip-Hop 4 Freshmen” teaches entrepreneurship through hip-hop.

Park Slope Collegiate and the John Jay Campus

They will discuss the importance of book bans and how you can help.

Restorative Justice Initiative

Restorative Justice Initiative is building a community of New Yorkers who reflect the diversity of our city to expand healing and non-punitive responses to harm at the personal, neighborhood and systemic levels.

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 Teens Under Construction, In. The Home of Hip-Hop Therapy

We are a teen focus non-profit specializing in Hip-Hop Therapy. It is important because we all have a story to tell, and our organization helps youth amplify their voice.

The Center for Anti-Violence Education

At the table, we’ll provide information and descriptions of our youth programming, resources on what empowerment self defense and opportunities to register for Fall programming..

The Eagle Academy for Young Men of Staten Island

The Justice Scholars

Networks is a Restorative

Justice Youth Program designed to introduce students to the principles of restorative justice and empower them to actively participate in creating a more compassionate and accountable community.

Through dialogue,

reflection, and action, this program seeks to foster understanding, empathy, and personal growth.

The New York Public Library

The New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 125 years and remains one of the city's most essential civic institutions by providing free and open access to an extraordinary richness of resources and opportunities, available to all.

The ROOTS Project

Project ROOTS is an immersive summer experience in justice and community.

The Youth Sexpert program

The Youth Sexpert Program, a digital training program that aims to provide comprehensive sex education for high school enrolled youth.

Youth Communication

Youth Communication (YC) is on a mission to elevate teen voices to create real change..

Youth Restorative Justice Action Team at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts and Technology

We are the Youth Restorative Justice team at Robert F. Wagner SSAT and we will be running a table on how to interrupt violence when you see it happen and how to address it afterwards.

South Bronx Community Charter High School

Students will learn about the apprenticeship programming that we offer as a school.

Arts Connection

Be an active participant in the city’s arts and cultural scene.Get to know artists, professionals, and other like-minded teens and gain leadership skills 

BraveMind: Youth Mental Health Awareness 

Identity; The Story of My Life 

Lab's Advice for Student Voice

Embracing Differences

Building Community and Youth-Led Fundraising through Dance

The Leopard Way: Restorative Practices

A Circle plan on Healthy Relationships which is a good starter circle for introducing classes of students to the circle process.

Building Youth-Led Oral History Projects

Making Data Dynamic: Exploring Participatory Action Research with the NYC Youth Agenda 

The 2024 NYC Youth Agenda was created by youth leaders across 6 nonprofits committed to analyzing the lived experiences of youth across the five boroughs through the Youth Ask Youth census and participatory action research and using that to inform the creation of recommendations around five key areas--Economic Mobility, Educational Equity, Environmental Justice, Housing, and Mental Health--presented to elected officials in the service of making NYC the most youth friendly, youth forward city it can be.

Peer Mediation

America on Tech

America on Tech is currently recruiting students for our 2023-2024 Tech Flex Leaders Program. This program engages students interested in technology through weekly technical training sessions, professional development sessions, and career days and mentorship opportunities. 

Heritage of Pride (NYC Pride)

Heritage of Pride (NYC Pride) present their website which has resources, opportunities, and news on Pride events in NYC for youth and adults.

Park Slope Collegiate

Park Slope Collegiate presents a sample Social Issues Research Unit Plan for the grade six ELA.

College of Staten Island High School

College of Staten Island High School presents a brochure on how to start a student parliament

New York University

New York University present excerpts from UC Davis's Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) problem of practice brainstorming activities. These optional activities can be used for youth researchers to identify the problem of practice they would like to research and take action to address in cooperation with adult allies in their school and/or community.

Harvest Collegiate High School

Harvest Collegiate High School share a video on NYC youth leaders hosting a youth summit presentation on the importance of restorative justice funding and practices in schools. Watch as youth discuss how school communities are successfully incorporating restorative justice, how restorative justice practices make youth feel, heal, and learn, and why funding for restorative justice coordinators and for schools to offer trainings and paid youth opportunities is so important.

YVote

The Ballroom Scene, or otherwise known as Ballroom Culture is a subculture originating out of New York City in the 1990s pioneered by Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ individuals. Ballroom culture is more than just dancing in underground clubs, it was a movement that solidified the presence of Black and Latinx LGBTQ+. Create and design your own ballroom outfit with this resource!

Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology

Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology share a paper entitled "The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where do we go from here?". It can be used to avoid mistakes when starting a program in restorative justice.

International High School at Prospect Heights

Our resource is a curriculum share of everything our circle keepers club have learned this year. It will also highlight 3 trips we have made around the city in connection to our learning. It will include links and printouts of a survey designed to see how effective our RJ program has been and a form created by students that can be scanned anytime they have a conflict or problem in our school. We will be updating a slide or two as we have one more trip to go on June 2nd. 

I.S. X318 Math, Science & Technology Through Arts

I.S. X318 Math, Science & Technology Through Arts presents information on the Boys Town National Hotline as well as the My Life My Voice App from the Boys Town National Hotline.

Patrick Henry Preparatory

Patrick Henry Preparatory presents a resource to provide schools with ideas to implement at their schools around community building through student voice.

The Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women

The Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women showcase how they utilize tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 in their school community. They also provide more detailed examples of how restorative practices were implemented at their school community. 

Youth Power Coalition (YPC)

Youth Power Coalition (YPC) present a handbook on unconventional post-high plans high school students can take, outside of attending college. It includes options of taking time for yourself, joining the activism world, volunteering in your community, working based on one's capacity, mental health care, and finding your passion.

New York Public Library

New York Public Library provide information on library card sign ups and information on NYPL College and Career Pathways program, NYPL Summer at the Library Resources, NYPL Teen Voices Magazine, and NYPL Anti Prom. 

Youth Action Institute

Youth Action Institute presents a workshop packet that includes a leadership style resource, a brief reading for liberation dreaming, and guided reflection questions to support folks in moving from self-knowledge to action.

New Visions for Public Schools

New Visions for Public Schools share a one-pager of how the flipped classroom model works and how it can be used in the classroom. 

South Bronx Community Charter High School

South Bronx Community Charter High School present a Scaffolded Reflection Document. This document can be used after a student is involved in an incident in order to help them reflect on what happened and why it happened. The document also includes the Contract for success which can be used after a restorative intervention has occurred and you want to set clear expectations and consequences moving forward.

Youth Food Advocates

Youth Food Advocates present their presentation on Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation. The presentation includes a breakout group with the learning stimulation as well as the discussion.

Urban Assembly School for Leadership and Empowerment

The Urban Assembly School for Leadership and Empowerment present their presentation from the Youth Summit NYC 2023 on facilitating and creating spaces to address areas of growth within their school.

The Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn

The Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn present their presentation from the Youth Summit NYC 2023 on thinking outside the circle and different ways to engage in a circle.

Student Equity Team at Brooklyn Technical High School

The Student Equity Team at Brooklyn Technical High School presents a graphic organizer that can be fill out to help you organize your ideas for the speak-outs into the different factors that impact their speak-out.

Millennium Brooklyn High School

Millennium Brooklyn High School present their presentation from the Youth Summit NYC 2023 on restorative justice and the work they are doing at their high school to promote inclusion, diversity, and community.

Corona Arts & Sciences Academy

Corona Arts & Sciences Academy present a restorative news template that will speak restorative practices into existence.  

PS/IS 266Q

PS/IS 266Q present a list of young adult literature that centers mental health and teen or adolescent characters. The list was compiled by 2 of their current 8th graders at PS IS 266Q.

M.S. 217 Green Team & Green Magnet Students

The M.S. 217 Green Team & Green Magnet Students present a resource, "We Speak for the Water", on why we should be aware and preserve our water sources.

N.Y.C. Lab School for Collaborative Studies

N.Y.C. Lab School for Collaborative Studies present a student made resource on steps on how to become an organizer.

Chancellor’s Student Advisory Council (CSAC)

The materials presented in this toolkit were developed for NYC public schools within the Student Voice Initiative and further developed, tested, and refined within two programs: the Imagine NYC Schools Youth Advisors and New York City Department of Education’s Chancellor’s Student Advisory Council (CSAC).

East Side Middle School

East Side Middle School share a student driven format for ethical debate, that explores how we make decisions by engaging with different points of view. 

YVote & Next Generation Politics

YVote & Next Generation Politics present summer program opportunities for youth.