Street shootings are becoming harder to predict and prevent with traditional policing. See how student activists from Launch and community interventionists Save Our Streets Brooklyn are stepping up in their community.
Launch students staged a walkout, sending a clear message: gun violence must end.
Wearing orange t-shirts and carrying signs that read “Guns are the death of us” and “Bullets don’t pay favorites,” hundreds of 7th and 8th grade students from Launch hit the streets Friday morning to raise awareness of gun violence.
Seventh and eighth graders from Launch started their walkout at 10:30 a.m. and ended in Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, where they gave speeches and performances.
Friday, June 7th, marked the third year that more than 200 middle schoolers at Launch walked out to raise awareness of the impact of gun violence on young people in the neighborhood. Read the coverage in Bklyner.
The first year of our Crew Mentors pilot program, which trains NYC Outward Bound Schools alumni to support their younger peers just starting college in NYC, has wrapped up. But we’re expanding the program next year!
This year, NYC Outward Bound Schools has had the pleasure of working with Corona Arts & Sciences Academy (CASA) through our Select Strategies for Schools.
On Friday, June 7th, 200 7th and 8th graders from Launch put down their pencils and walked out of their school as part of their 3rd Annual Walkout to End Gun Violence.
Seventh and eighth graders from Launch walked out of their schools today and marched to Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, where they gave speeches and performances.
Kurt Hahn student Rofiat designed and created her own prom dress with the help of her art teacher Meno Mazid, which helped her keep saving for college next year.