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Thank you for getting behind NBWJI's vision to increase our collective capacity to create spaces where I also want to thank our incredible NBWJI team, who has continued to move our significant work forward

The 2017 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis System (AFCARS) reported 23 percent of youth in foster care were Black identified, but Black children make up only 15 percent of the US child population. The Data Sheet identifies that Black girls make up 15 percent of the female student population, yet about 50 percent of out-of-school suspensions. things, that: “Native Americans experience the highest overall rates of sexual assault in the US” “22 percent

Sydney McKinney, Executive Director: Day after day, reports of increasing illness and death in U.S. prisons

The Promising Practices Toolkit reflects the incredibly rich expertise of the SiS Reentry Network, it

Disengaging from school not only disrupts students’ education, it also increases their involvement in

educators and policymakers agree with the DOE’s advice, they currently lack capacity and resources to increase Together, they discussed going back to school, increasing access to mental health services, and elevating

This study is an important step toward enhancing and increasing the availability of reentry services

enforcement responses and criminalization of Black girls only causes more trauma and does little to heal or increase

This vulnerability increases with marginalized statuses and structural disadvantage: Black women with

recommendations from the report, include: Support congressional legislation designed to change the outcomes, and increase

outcomes for Black women and girls in the justice system continuum and work closely with leadership to increase

Police, jails, prisons, immigration detention, probation and parole may also be sources and sites of increased