{"id":254626,"date":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/city-heights-youth-unveil-mural-as-a-symbol-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T07:00:00","slug":"city-heights-youth-unveil-mural-as-a-symbol-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/city-heights-youth-unveil-mural-as-a-symbol-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"City Heights youth unveil mural as a symbol of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mid-City CAN Youth Council revealed their mural titled \u201cSchools Not Prisons\u201d on Thursday, June 20. The mural featured bright flowers and a large \u201cI Am Possible\u201d to highlight their message that youth can achieve anything with proper investment in their education and alternatives to incarceration.<\/p>\n

Council President, Georgette Gomez, will spoke alongside local youth about community-led efforts to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline (SPP) \u2014 the system through which students are pushed out of schools and into prisons.<\/p>\n

According to the Mid-City Community Advocacy Network (CAN), students\u2019 first contact with law enforcement often starts with punitive policies at school. Once students are put into contact with law enforcement for disciplinary reasons, many are then pushed out of the educational environment and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.<\/p>\n

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Mid-City CAN\u2019s analysis of 2017 data from the Automated Regional Justice Information System, used by SDPD and regional law enforcement agencies, found youth of color are disproportionately impacted by the SPP. In 2017, black youth in San Diego County were arrested at a rate 3.5 times higher than white youth and Latino youth were arrested at a rate 2.6 times higher than their white peers.<\/p>\n

Mid-City CAN\u2019s Youth Council seeks to end youth criminalization and chose to create this mural to expand the conversation in San Diego about the need to invest in positive youth development and education.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mid-City CAN Youth Council revealed their mural titled \u201cSchools Not Prisons\u201d on Thursday, June 20. The mural featured bright flowers and a large \u201cI Am Possible\u201d to highlight their message that youth can achieve anything with proper investment in their education and alternatives to incarceration.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":254627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"City Heights youth unveil mural as a symbol of hope","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11550,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}