Community Intervention Presentation from Commissioner Haywood and Judge Cerski

Youth – community intervention Presentations
Monday, September 16, 2013
at the La Mott Community Center.

During a recent meeting with the Cheltenham Area Branch NAACP Board, Judge Chris Cerski, a member of the Montgomery County and Montgomery County Racial Justice Task Force and Art Haywood, Chairman, Cheltenham Township Board of Commissioners, proposed a six-pronged youth community intervention approach for Montgomery County Pennsylvania including Cheltenham Township .

The program would include the following components:
1-Advocacy for schools to place kids in most rigorous classes and eliminate artificial tracking barriers
2-Advocacy for schools to improve student discipline management, to adopt restorative practices and youth courts and to reduce referrals to police
3-Advocacy for police training on racial profiling
4-Increased individual and group mentoring of students for college/career readiness
5-Advocacy for systematically match students who need tutoring with tutoring
6-Increase parent training on how to get the most from our of schools

Judge Cerski and Commissioner Haywood made their presentations at the general body meeting of the Cheltenham Area Branch, NAACP on Monday, September 16, 2013 at the La Mott Community Center. Following the meeting, Herman Carter, the Scholarship Chair recommended that Judge Ceiski contact Mrs. Sandra Hollie. Mr. Carter indicated that Mrs. Hollie had the experience of developing and implementing a variety of school-based programs. Her team worked with school administrators and staff on starting school-based youth courts as an alternative disciplinary response. Her programs were designed in accordance with restorative justice principles. Mr. Carter indicated that Mrs. Hollie could help plan, implement, and evaluate a youth court program if implemented at Cheltenham High School .