GVP RIG: Promoting Alternatives to Police in Schools: Addressing the School to Prison Pipeline

Описание: The panel discussion will center on S. 4360: Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act. Introduced by Senator Murphy, S. 4360 is a bill to reduce police presence and increase resources for counseling in schools, with aims “to divert Federal funding away from supporting the presence of police in schools and toward evidence-based and trauma informed services that address the needs of marginalized students and improve academic outcomes” in order to “create safe and inclusive schools for all students.


U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (CT) is the junior United States Senator for Connecticut.

Steven Hernández, Esq., Executive Director for the Commission on Women, Children and Seniors.

Dr. Aaron Kupchik, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.

Moderator: Dr. Sandra Chafouleas, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education, and Director of the Collaboratory on School and Child Health.

Opening Remarks, President Thomas C Katsouleas

Closing Remarks, Provost Carl Lejuez

Organized by:
Mary Bernstein, Jennifer Dineen, and Kerri Raissian, co-Directors of the Gun Violence Prevention Research Interest Group of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), the Departments of Sociology and Public Policy, the Collaboratory on Child and School Health, the Connecticut Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UConn Hartford, and Sustainable Global Cities Initiative.