Mobile Workshops

Session Date:
Friday, November 4, 2011
Session Time:
11:00am - 2:00pm

Mobile Workshop #1 – School to Prison Pipeline
This tour will give an overview of the frontline struggles in Los Angeles County to address the criminalization of young people and understand its origins in drug war policies, such as drug testing and zero tolerance. Participants will also hear from individuals and organizations providing alternatives for youth and restorative justice practices. Local participants include Coalition for Responsible Community Development, Labor/Community Strategy Center, Manual Arts Senior High School students and teachers, National Center for Dispute Resolution in Special Education, Southern California Library, and Youth Justice Coalition.

Mobile Workshop #2 – Skid Row
Lead by Los Angeles Community Action Network, participants will get a history of LA’s downtown Skid Row neighborhood, notorious for its high rate of homelessness. They will tour some of the places working to provide services to Skid Row residents and discuss how “broken windows” policing impacts people who use drugs in this area. Homeless Health Care Los Angeles will demonstrate its on-site harm reduction services such as syringe exchange and overdose prevention training, including a brief presentation about naloxone. Skid Row residents will lead the group to permanent supportive housing facilities and other housing and services.

Mobile Workshop #3 – Medical Marijuana in California
Learn about California’s historic Proposition 215, the frontline battles over the last 15 years to provide safe access to people in need, the forefront of research and the future for cannabis medicine. Visit several medical marijuana dispensaries to meet patients and providers, see various types of cannabis medicine and medication modalities, and learn about personal cultivation and the science of cannabis. Participants include Americans for Safe Access, Cornerstone Collective, LA Wonderland Caregivers and Pure Life Alternative Wellness Center.

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