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Walking Philly’s Tightrope of Youth Justice
Chekemma J. Fulmore-Townsend, President and CEO of the Philadelphia Youth Network, joins us for this episode of
Shades of Freedom to discuss the evolution of youth justice work in Philadelphia, and her own personal journey from working directly with youth and families, to running Philadelphia’s major youth-serving nonprofit.
Weaving together progress in the community, creating effective programs for youth, and the City of Philadelphia’s youth justice reforms, the interview focuses on the many different sectors and partners (including the community itself) that must work together – through good times and bad times – to create progress. While there’s a lot still to be done to create justice in the city that gave birth to America, Fulmore-Townsend finds hope in new innovations and approaches being tried out.
of today become more modernized, use digital stuff that is at our fingertips right now. well, that s one of the important important measures that s taking place here at the summit that governor bush has organized and will later be rolling out 10 principles of the digital learning council. 10 principles for getting digital learning, using technology effectively in the classroom and providing a road map for governors across the across the country, state legislators, policymakers, educators and teachers. and i think it s important the commission that governor bush and i have been co-chairing has roughly over 100 members from education, nonprofit world, philanthropic world, for profit, but everyone knowing that we can make great strides in education improve the student content and be cost effective at the same time through digital learning. and governor, could you run us through some of the specific suggestions? for example, on the on the digital on the digital way,