Discussion guide and hosting tools

Hosting a Color of Justice Forum is a great way to get your community working toward fairer treatment of all kids. We've developed resources to make your work easier and more effective. At the very least, you'll need to print out the sign in sheet, but please familiarize yourself with all materials and decide what you'd like to have on hand for your event. Forum organizing tips is a good place to start.

If you need additional help, please call the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance at 203-579-2727.

Thanks for doing this important work!

Organizing tools for facilitators

• Forum organizing tips
• Facilitator tips
• Suggested questions
• Sign in sheet
• Forum description
• Sample press release
• Sample email invite
• Customizable poster
• Post forum survey

Fact sheets

• Implicit bias
• Opportunity gap
• Race and juvenile justice
• Student arrests
• Mental health

Presentation

• Color of Justice PowerPoint

Tools for further action

• Template letter to the editor
• Template letter to a local official
• Reading list
• Action steps
• Training resources
• Sample tweets
• eCards for social media