Join our webinar tomorrow about the certificate program to improve outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth that is co-hosted by @ceresresearch , @CJJRGU and @NCLRights . You can register here:

Learn about how youth can become more civically engaged! Ceres is having a webinar with California Youth Connection (CYC) about how pregnant and parenting foster youth used their own research findings to shape policy. Register here:

Learn how youth can shape policy through participatory research. Join Ceres and young people from the California Youth Connection as we share how pregnant and parenting foster youth advocated for themselves through research.

Georgetown University's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform @CJJRGU is open for applications if your agency or organization wants to better support LGBTQ+ youth. Find out more here:

Want to partner with Ceres to complete a youth participatory action research project like the one we did with the Ella Baker Center? Inquire here:

Ella Baker Center wanted to complete a youth participatory action research project to understand how youth prison realignment funds are spent in Alameda County. They asked Ceres to teach their young people research, data analysis, and reporting skills.

Immigration is NOT a crime. RT if you agree

“This practice…is disproportionately inflicted on Black and brown folks, young people, LGBTQ+ people and other marginalized communities.” .- @CoriBush .

RT @CoriBush: O’Shea Sibley was a dancer. He was a light. He was brutally killed in Brooklyn, NY while dancing to a Beyoncé song. We must….

AB 1536 by @AsmJuanCarrillo would expand access to the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants to undocumented immigrants who aren’t eligible for the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled.

Want to join an international conversation about the criminalization of LGBTQI+ youth? Our first goal is to organizing an online convening in February 2024. Fill out our questionnaire to join this growing community.

RT @kayewhitehead: If we were old enough to pick cotton.And they were old enough to attend Klan rallies.Then everybody is old enough to lea….

“If you can tell a story that removes the harm that has been done — then you change the way we believe we have to deal with it.”.- Rashad Robinson, @ColorOfChange President .

RT @PrisonPolicy: People who have been incarcerated more than once are 13 times more likely to be homeless than the general public. The cri….

Approaching research as though sex is binary and gender is exact leads to incomplete data. This mistake keeps us from creating the best possible mental health policies and programs.

RT @ahouse4all: Blaming the homelessness crisis solely on mental health and drug abuse means that politicians don't have to address landlor….

Ceres worked with multiple justice systems across the country to collect sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) data. Read more on our website .

RT @ROOTandREBOUND: Reforming California’s restitution system is a matter of racial justice. Black youth are younger on average when ordere….

Today, a federal judge in Oakland blocked a Biden administration rule that limits migrants’ access to asylum at the southern border, casting doubt on the future of a key policy aimed at limiting crossings.

RT @ColorOfChange: As #abortionbans & restrictions continue to gain traction, Black women, trans, & non-binary people will be hit hardest.….