We are proud to release a fact sheet authored by Scholar Chloe B. McKenzie, a financial literacy expert and founder and CEO of BlackFem, Inc. The fact sheet outlines how the wealth gap could be narrowed by financial literacy education, if curricula recognize and repair the financial harms that have affected Black women. The fact
This report from the Girls at the Margin National Alliance, co-authored by the Center as a steering committee member of the Alliance, highlights the systemic harms experienced by girls and offers solutions to support girls and gender-expansive young people so that they may lead full and complete lives. The report offers insight and policy recommendations across nine core
Inspired by the Center’sGirlhood Interrupted report, the Innocence Initiative, comprised of five local organizations — MEASURE, Girls Scouts of Central Texas, Hearts2Heal, Lone Star Justice Alliance, and Community Advocacy and Healing Project — has developed a multi-pronged effort to reduce adultification bias in its community. Download The Innocence Initiative: Translating National Research into Local Action
May 2021 The Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law, under the leadership of Senior Scholar Thalia González, conducted a two-year study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project was designed to examine associations between school-based restorative practices and protective health factors for girls of color. Qualitative data was collected from
The Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity has partnered with Restorative Empowerment for Youth (REY) to offer and evaluate a pilot online restorative justice program developed for girls of color to support more inclusive, culturally responsive, and connected learning environments in Fall 2020. Download the Case Study: Restorative Empowerment for Youth Pilot Training Program for
Analysis with RISE Research Team at NYU of the latest data collected by the US Department of Education on discipline disparities in public school.
Exclusionary School Discipline (ESD) In November 2020, the Initiative conducted a 50-state assessment of ESD legislative trends. Our team researched policies regulating ESD, which includes suspension and expulsion, to examine how students are being removed from classrooms. We found that 32 states and the District of Columbia have legislation addressing ESD. ESD, which is associated
School-Based Restorative Justice (RJ) In November 2020, the Initiative released the results of a 50-state assessment of School-Based RJ legislative trends. Our team researched laws relating to the full continuum of RJ practices in schools, from disciplinary alternatives to whole-school models, across US jurisdictions. This fact sheet presents the results of our 50-state assessment of
Brief Introduction Schools can play an essential role in ending health inequities. But not all students experience schools in the same ways. Given the intersectional factors of race, gender, sexual identity, and poverty in their lives, marginalized girls are at a particularly high risk of negative outcomes in schools, including punitive and exclusionary discipline, school
This compendium of policy and practice recommendations aggregates a set of proposals to enhance mental health outcomes and thriving for girls of color.