The Oakland Unified Faculty District disbanded its police pressure 5 years in the past. Since then, faculty leaders have reimagined the best way they create a secure atmosphere for college kids and employees. One in all these packages, paid for by the town, locations violence interrupters on highschool campuses, the place they’ll construct belief amongst college students and assist de-escalate and mediate tense conditions that might result in fights.
Carla Ashford works on the Oakland-based nonprofit Youth Alive as violence interrupter at Skyline Excessive Faculty. Her time on campus and the work of different violence interrupters coincided with a decline in fights and suspensions.
Host Darwin BondGraham talks with faculty reporter Ashley McBride about this new program, Ashford’s philosophy of battle decision, and why OUSD is anxious about operating out of funding for violence interruption.
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