
Arts for Healing and Justice Network Part 3 of 3
Season 6 Episode 6 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Bonnie interviews AHJN CEO Elinda Leedsma and Josh Green of the Urban Peace Institute.
It takes a village to help formerly incarcerated youth begin a new life. Bonnie interviews AHJN CEO Elinda Leedsma about the mission of the organization and the challenges finding funding to continue this work. Meanwhile, Josh Green, Director of Criminal Justice for the Urban Peace Institute, weighs in on the policy side of the discussion of youth diversion programs such as the AHJN.
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Bonnie Boswell Reports is a local public television program presented by PBS SoCal

Arts for Healing and Justice Network Part 3 of 3
Season 6 Episode 6 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
It takes a village to help formerly incarcerated youth begin a new life. Bonnie interviews AHJN CEO Elinda Leedsma about the mission of the organization and the challenges finding funding to continue this work. Meanwhile, Josh Green, Director of Criminal Justice for the Urban Peace Institute, weighs in on the policy side of the discussion of youth diversion programs such as the AHJN.
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Hello, I'm Bonnie Boswell, and welcome to the last in our series about the Arts and Healing Justice Network or "The Network.
Now, you just heard from Kevin Rodas when he was young.
Kevin was in the justice system, but with help from the network, he now has a place of his own.
A new job that he loves and a new family.
So I want to bring in Elida Ledesma, the CEO of The Network, the Arts for Healing and Justice Network is a network of currently 13 member organization and the arts provide an opportunity for these young people to process some of that trauma in a way that is not threatening.
And our role is to say the arts should be front and center.
Thank you so much for sharing that, Elida.
Now I want to bring in Josh Green.
Josh is the director of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Programs for the Urban Peace Institute here in Los Angeles.
We're at historically low numbers of young people inside of the probation camps in the county.
So that presents an opportunity, for example, to rethink how we distribute, distribute our resources.
And now there's a new Department of Youth Development starting from a place of care as opposed to the only way to keep these young people safe is to lock them up for meaningfully reinvesting the dollars and the type of supports that actually do lead to community safety.
Thank you so much, Josh, for sharing with us.
Hopes are really high that the new department will fully support programs like The Network and people like Kevin If you want to know more, please go to our Web site for KCET.
I'm Bonnie Boswell.
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