WE Nation Reentry Summit Invites Justice-Impacted Girls, Women

Supply: Activate Your Life and LOHM

A yearly occasion putting a highlight on girls and younger women who’re impacted or have been concerned within the justice system is going down in New York Metropolis this weekend.

The fifth Annual WE Nation Reentry Summit can be held Sunday within the historic Harlem neighborhood and is free and open to folks of all races and genders in an effort to boost consciousness in addition to “present financial improvement to justice-impacted girls with the instruments and assist wanted to beat obstacles, acquire beneficial job expertise, and construct sustainable careers,” as said on the occasion’s net web page.

This yr’s installment of the WE Nation Reentry Summit affords a number of workshops with group business specialists that may be useful following experiences with the justice system. They embrace however aren’t restricted to workshops on monetary literacy, resume writing and job talent coaching.

These in attendance may also have the ability to community with justice-impacted girls, business leaders and group members after they’re not visiting any of the informational cubicles from native companies and organizations.

There are additionally a number of “treats” deliberate for attendees, together with a magnificence bar, swag baggage and cash giveaways.

The fifth Annual WE Nation Reentry Summit is the results of a partnership between Activate Your Life, a nonprofit group specializing in girls of coloration who’ve been concerned within the prison justice system, and The Women of Hope Ministries (The LOHM), which helps girls and women impacted by the prison justice system.

The occasion is about to final from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Harlem College of the Arts at 645 St Nicholas Avenue. Click on right here for extra info.

The WE Nation Reentry Summit attracts consideration to the elevated criminalization of African American women, specifically.

Statistics present that changing into concerned with the prison justice system at a younger age can have devastating penalties in life years later, together with adversarial results on the prospects of employment in addition to incomes potential, each of which issue closely within the widening racial wealth hole.

In line with creator Monique Morris, Black women make up 16% of American faculty college students, however account for greater than 33% of college arrests.

In her ebook Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Ladies in Faculties, Morris writes:

“It must be acknowledged that almost all Black women expertise types of confinement and carceral experiences past merely going to jail or jail. Broadening the scope to incorporate detention facilities, home arrest, digital monitoring, and different types of social exclusion permits us to see Black women in hassle the place they may different sensible be hidden.”