Host a forum

Education Vs. Incarceration can be a great tool to start a conversation in your community. Using this toolkit will walk you through the steps: from practical advice on event planning to in-depth information on issues. Please be sure to read The Essentials first, because they are, well, essential.

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

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Download or read PDFs:

The Essentials

Organizing a Forum

Tips for Facilitators

Fact sheets

• Adolescent brain development
• Opportunity gap
• Race and juvenile justice
• School based arrests
• Truancy
• Zero tolerance

Questions

• General questions
• Racial disparity
• School based arrests
• Truancy

Samples

• Email invite
• Letter to the Editor
• Petition
• Press release
• Sign-in sheet (MS Word)

A bit of perspective

• Educators
• Parents

Citations for statistics quoted in the documentary