Centinela Youth Services, Inc. (CYS)
CYS strengthens families and communities and helps build successful students and productive adults, leveraging restorative justice to empower peaceful conflict resolution. CYS is committed to ending school and justice system practices that are primarily responsible for the school-to-prison pipeline and disproportionately impact youth of color.
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PLAY ·2024 Grants ChallengeCommunity Mediator Institute: Reknitting Community Cohesion
The CYS Community Mediator Institute (CMI) will recruit natural “bridge-builders” who are already helping to calm local issues to be trained as certified mediators. They will gain transferrable skills and facilitate mediations and healing circles that defuse conflicts with 900 youth, adults, and groups in Lennox, Compton, and Florence-Firestone. Mediations will cultivate cohesion, peace and mutual care, proving the impacts of locally-led dispute resolution on improved safety, reduced reliance on police response, inclusion and shared belonging.