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Racial and Ethnic Disparities and System Intergration
Workshop Description:
This workshop will present information that demonstrates the racial disparities that exist throughout institutions and systems that serve young people involved in the juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health or education systems.
Professionals from those systems will be providing their knowledge about the strategic and innovative methods they are involved in to address and eliminate racial disparities and disproportionality.
Presenters:
King County System Integration Initiative Representatives: Members from a consortium of state and local youth-serving agencies working together to improve the coordination and integration of services for youth involved in the juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health and chemical dependency systems will discuss the progress the coalition has made in many areas including information sharing guide, protocols for coordinate management, cross-system training, detailed recommendations to improve the systems that serve a disproportionate number of youth of color.
Keynote Speaker Michael Harris: Michael Harris is the Deputy Director of the W. Hayward Burns Institute. He provides technical assistance to BI sites in analyzing whether and to what extent policies and practices contribute to disparities in juvenile justice systems. He assists in developing local strategies to reduce disparities. He also supervises BI program managers and other staff.
Harris was previously Assistant Director and Staff Attorney of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) of the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked on a wide range of issues affecting the African American community, particularly juvenile justice and education. While at LCCR he also represented clients in cases involving environmental justice, employment discrimination, housing discrimination, community economic development, redistricting, and retail discrimination.
He has served as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University Law School in Appellate Advocacy and on the boards of several nonprofits related to at-risk youth, environmental justice, affordable housing, discrimination testing and philanthropy.
The workshop will also provide participants the opportunity to share their own experience, challenge, success, and concerns about racial disparities they recognize in there area of service.
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LocationSeattle University Campion Hall
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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| Non-Smoking: No |
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