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ARC Announces Shaka Senghor as its New Executive Director
April 24, 2018 Dear ARC Friends and Allies, Over the last year, as our organization planned for the transition of our Founder Scott Budnick, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) has undergone an extensive and thoughtful search to identify its next Executive Director. With guidance from our outstanding Board of Directors, ARC worked with Koya Leadership Partners and gathered valuable insight and direction from its staff and formerly incarcerated members to find a candidate who is committed to ARC’s values of redemption, social justice, and empowerment of system-connected individuals. ARC’s Board and staff are thrilled to announce Shaka Senghor as its new Executive Director.[...]
ECMC Grantee Spotlight Highlighting the Anti-Recidivism Coalition
The following article series, developed by the ECMC Foundation, highlights the Foundation's support of ARC's Second Chance Union Training Program. See the full series here. By Mai Tran 12/12/17 - In 2016, ECMC Foundation partnered with the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) and funded its pilot, the Second Chance Union Training Program. Comprehensive and lasting 12 weeks, the pre-apprenticeship program combines career and technical training with supportive services to prepare participants for guaranteed paid apprenticeships in the construction and building trades. After the success of the program's first two cohorts, ARC has secured funding from Los Angeles County to continue and is also planning to expand[...]
What It Feels Like to Be a Teen in Solitary Confinement
Ending The Practice Is A Big Deal For Juvenile Justice Reform Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy Jaki Murillo was 12 years old when she first entered the juvenile justice system in California. When she was 9, she tells Teen Vogue, she was arrested for making “terrorist threats” after telling a teacher that she was going to send her uncles to hurt the teacher; she was then put on probation. A few years later, Jaki started running away from home and skipping school, a violation of her probation. At 12, she was sent to a juvenile detention hall in Los Angeles. When she arrived there, she[...]
Woman to Watch: Film director and philanthropist Patty Jenkins
Arturo Garcia October 28, 2017 Before the 2017 release of the blockbuster hit “Wonder Woman,” screenwriter and director Patty Jenkins was relatively unknown. Her climb to success is an inspiration not only to those who aspire to work in the film industry but to all women as well. She may have experienced a slow start. However, it was a steady rise to where she is right now, making her one of the women to watch. Before breaking into the film industry Born in Victorville, California, as Patricia Lea Jenkins in 1971, her childhood mostly involved studying and living in places like Germany, Thailand, and[...]
Los Angeles Board Of Supervisors Votes To Launch ‘Historic’ Juvenile Diversion Plan
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt an ambitious plan to divert thousands of the county’s youth away from the juvenile and criminal justice systems, connecting them instead to a comprehensive array of supportive services. Speakers stepped to the microphones to declare their ardent support for the 78-page report, “A Roadmap for Advancing Youth Diversion in LA County,” which provided the framework for the sweeping strategy proposed. Dr. Robert Ross, CEO of The California Endowment, speaks to the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. “This is an historic day in the history of justice reform,” Dr.[...]
He Went to Prison for Life at 17. More Than 20 Years Later, His Life Started Over
October 18, 2017 On a summer evening in late June, a few months after he was paroled on what was supposed to be a life sentence, Tyree Dabney returned to the corner of 45th and Western. The West Liquor and the parking lot with the payphones were gone, the doughnut shop was a cash advance place, and there was a new junior high named after Barack Obama. But the changes were mostly superficial. The car's AC was broken and heat drifted in through the lowered windows. Dabney had just left his part-time construction job in Torrance and was heading to the halfway[...]
