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Growing Kings advocates for a policy agenda aiming to improve the lives of boys and young men who are most harmed by disparities across academic, social, and economic systems. Our work serves as a call-to-action for much needed reform to institutional laws, policies, and practices that have negatively impacted the lives of underserved male youth. We build awareness, foster community support, and inform policymakers of the issues plaguing this populace. Our goal is to create targeted awareness that builds a community of support, who will challenge systemic inequities that adversely affect male youth of color locally, statewide, and across the nation.    

We focus on building positive change across three (3) core Areas of Interest:

Juvenile Justice & Policing Reform: Growing Kings promotes mentoring and diversion programs as a strategy for reducing youth detention and incarceration and advocates for critically examining the role and function of law enforcement in schools.

Workforce Hiring & Development Initiatives: Growing Kings advocates for fair-hiring practices that reduce barriers to employment for those with a criminal history and increases awareness and public partnerships around career and technical training opportunities available to unemployed youth.

School Discipline & Attendance Policies: By promoting alternative policies around discipline, truancy, and school attendance, Growing Kings advocates for the reduction of punitive measures that perpetuate the school pushout phenomenon.

In order to communicate research findings, empirical data, and advances in our local and statewide advocacy efforts, quarterly policy briefs are issued that relate to one of the priority areas. Each brief edition is designed to share relevant and thoughtful content that promotes an asset-based narrative for supporting solutions that improve life outcomes for boys and men of color.

Read our complete Advocacy and Policy Agenda here.