Who We Are
Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute seeks to plant seeds of social change through education, training, and community outreach.
What We Do
The challenges we address are:
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promoting reading
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increasing diversity in books
Our team chose to take on these issues based on our passion for dismantling the pipeline to prison. This is of critical importance due to the connection between illiteracy and future incarceration and the overrepresentation of communities of color in the criminal justice system.
Students who are not proficient in reading are 4x more likely to drop out of school and dropouts are 3.5x more likely to be arrested during their lifetime. 85% of children in the juvenile justice system are not literate.
Our goal is to create new pipelines to success by improving literacy rates and inspiring the next generation of leaders.
Details
| (651) 303-6566 | |
| info@ppgj.org | |
| Jacklyn Milton | |
| Administrative Director | |
| http://www.ppgjli.org |
