DDC School to Prison Pipeline
Project Description:
Project PLAAY-Inclusive is a newly funded PA Developmental Disabilities Council grant that combines a school-based intervention with communitydriven trainings aimed at addressing issues of race and disability in the school-to-prison pipeline. The Institute on Disabilities (IOD) in partnership with the Racial Empowerment Collaborative (REC) at the University of Pennsylvanias project combines the PLAAY-Inclusive intervention on an individual level and a series of Community-Driven Training Modules for school, community, juvenile justice, judicial system, social work, and law enforcement professionals on a systems level. This project will utilize the success of the traditional PLAAY curriculum and adapt some of the lessons and components to fully incorporate issues related to disability into the adapted intervention. The adapted intervention, PLAAY-Inclusive, will be introduced and utilized by the entire school community, yet the new, adapted intervention will ensure students of color who have disabilities themselves (50% of intervention participants) or who have family members with disabilities (25% of intervention participants) are included in both adapting the curriculum to include issues associated with disability as well as participating in the intervention. Our Community-Driven Training Modules will take the work that is being done in the school-based interventions and push the principles to a larger audience in order to shed light on and address how issues of endemic racism and ableism contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline.
Core Function(s):
Performing Research or Evaluation
Area of Emphasis
Education & Early Intervention
Target Audience:
Professionals and Para-Professionals, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN, General Public
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Geographic Areas, Urban
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
State
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
