The Third World Near You: Meeting the Other

1. The Third World Near You: Meeting the Other Student Service in-Justice Juvenile Justice Introduction to Juvenile Justice Spring 2011

2. The Travelers • Sarah Barnhart Margaret Bingham • Markus Brooks Michael Finochiarro • Margaux Fontaine Elizabeth Hall • Yiwen Hao Colin Husey • Meghan Jendusa Geoffrey King • Meghan Johnson Devin Kostrzewksi • Miranda Seguera Vaughn Spivey • Robert Woltering • Joe Andreoni Michael Backer • Michael Boyce Patrick Dawson • Connor Gandossy Sarah Leach • Michael Roach

3. Changing The Face of Criminal Justice • Toward a Human Justice System • Learning the Other • Understanding their Humanity • Understanding a life ‘in-Risk’ • Understanding Challenges of Inequality

4. Engaging the Community Better Family Life: Neighborhood Alliance • Meeting Attendance • Outreach Work • Interviews • Conversations • Experiencing the Neighborhoods

5. Exposing the Campus • Life in North St. Louis – ‘A Foreign Land?’ • Outward Appearance • Social Climate • Economic Climate • Through the eyes of a Visitor • In their Own Words

6. The Purpose of Panel • Provide an overview of the North City community from the eyes of students. • Provide view of the community based on participation and engagement within it. • Encourage SLU community to make commitment to engaging and assisting North City by going Elbow to Elbow to make foster change.

7. Baseline Information North St. Louis Zip Codes Percentages do not total 100 other category omitted

8. Through Our Eyes

9. The Economy of Poverty • St Louis Community • National Comparisons

10. Median Household Income: 2009 Average family size across ZIP codes: 2.5 Poverty line for family of three: $17,607

11. Residents with Income Below the Poverty Line in 2009

12. Number of Businesses

13. Breakdown of Four Business Areas

14. Economics around the United States • City comparisons around the United States • Zip code data in areas of cities comparable to North Saint Louis • Data from the cities averaged and compared to local and National statistics • These issues are not only up the street from SLU, they are also around the entire country.

15. Population Percentage with High School Diploma

16. Population Percentage with Bachelor’s Degree

17. Percentage of Households with Income under $10,000

18. Median Income

19. Percentage Below the Poverty Line

20. In Social Measures

21. THE THIRD WORLD NEAR YOU: THE CHALLENGES OF URBAN AMERICA Social data & statistics on disadvantaged “at-risk” communities near you These neighborhoods reveal the reality of urban poverty Are you aware?

23. Social Statistics • Several communities within 4-5 miles (10-12 minutes) North of SLU are at “at-risk” • Presentation of social data regarding neighborhoods such as the Ville & Wells-Goodfellow as opposed to neighborhoods like The Hill (ZIP 63019), which is only 7 miles (16 minutes) South of SLU.

24. Social Statistics • One common social indicator for disadvantaged neighborhoods “at-risk” is the % of single-parent households within the community.

25. Two sides to every coin (Child/Parent) • Working Multiple Jobs affect the parent as much as the children • Parents experience • Heightened Stress levels • Decreased Overall Health • Depression • Neglect of Children • Parents are sometimes forced to make hard choices and big risks

26. Social Statistics • Another common social indicator for disadvantaged neighborhoods “at-risk” is the lack of new residential development.

27. Available housing plays a huge role in community residency • Up kept Community vs. Neglected Community • City has control • Perception of Safety • Expectation of neighbors • REPUTATION

29. Social Statistics • The the most important social indicators for disadvantaged neighborhoods “at-risk” is the education level of its residents.

30. Schools neglect themselves • Appearance • Overall lack of Initiative • Involvement • Community Schools are failing the kids that attend • Where does it start? • CRITICAL* • How can we change this downward trend?

31. Through the Eyes of Travelers from Abroad

32. Focus Groups • 11 individuals • 8 Males and 3 Females • Ranging from 14 to 40 years old

33. Words Paint a Picture… “You’re gonna see people posted up out there, beer bottles everywhere, liquor bottles everywhere, broken cigarellos down, crackheads walking up and down the street. Ya know, you can see people sittin out there with their guns right on their front porch. It’s just how we live.”

34. Living in Poverty • “Every corner I hit, house house house, vacant vacant vacant vacant, empty lot, house house house, 20 cats here, 10 guys down here, little kids playing in the street, drug selling right here, drive by shooting.” • “When I walk around my neighborhood, all I see is poverty.”

35. Free Time and Nothing to Do… • “We need more resources to invest our time in.” • “Video games aren’t helping. They’re telling us to do the same stuff we’re doing. They need to make better things for kids to see these days.” • “Nobody is getting out here and helping these young guys, talking to these young guys.”

36. Lack of Resources • “It’s gonna have to be somebody up higher to stop them, to bring everything back. I guarantee you Saint Louis will change if everything comes back. If we start opening gyms, start opening schools back up, start opening rec centers, Saint Louis will change.” • “These young guys don’t have anything. All the boxing gyms are close, all the rec centers are closed, all the parks. Schools are closed down.”

37. Where is there left to shop? • “Everything is gone. Everything is either county, south, west, north county. There’s nothing in this inner city. All the malls are gone. Where’s the Walmart in the city? Where’s the Target? There’s nothing in the city. Quicktrip won’t even come in the inner city.”

38. Lack of Freedom “In my neighborhood there’s certain streets ya can’t walk down if you from there, just from growin up with people you think as a brother..so say if I go on the other side of where I’m from, somebody gonna gun me down just cuz we grew up on different sides.” “I feel like I shouldn’t be scared to go anywhere at night time. My mom shouldn’t be like, ‘you have to be home at ten or twelve because they’re gonna start shooting.”

39. Schooling • “Schools are closing down and they turn around and build a million dollar school, but we can’t go to that school cuz it’s a private school, academy, or something.” • “We need new schools. The schools are about squat; you can’t learn nothing in them schools.”

40. Teaching • “Half of the teachers aren’t doin nothing; they’re in there for their paychecks. If there were better teachers, there would be better role models for these kids.” • “I want my little brother to stay in school, keep his motivation in his head and not be worried about the teacher telling him, ‘You won’t learn anything in my class, I’m just worried about getting paid.’ That hurt me so bad when my brother came home and said that, and the teacher straight failed him.”

41. What’s the point?Where do we go from here? Something to think about

42. The Promised Land? Or, The other side of the tracks

43. Or, Across the Street Either can be the great divide

44. Or, as wide as a river.

45. Wade in the Water Chorus Wade in the water, Wade in the water children.Wade in the waterGod’s gonna trouble the waterWho’s all those children all dressed in Red?God’s gonna trouble the water.Must be the ones that Moses led.God’s gonna trouble the water.Chorus:What are those children all dressed in White?God’s gonna trouble the water.Must be the ones of the Israelites.God’s gonna trouble the water.Chorus:Who are these children all dressed in Blue?God’s gonna trouble the water.Must be the ones that made it through.God’s gonna trouble the water. Harriet Tubman sang this spiritual as a warning to runaway slaves. To escaping slaves, the song told them to abandon the path and move into the water. By travelling along the water’s edge or across a body of water, the slaves would throw chasing dogs and their keepers off the scent Can we wade into the Unknown waters, first understanding the need and than reach out to work toward a renewal of faith and hope in a community that deserves our support? Restore and fulfill the Dream http://www.osblackhistory.com/wade.php

47. A Single Drop Can Change the World Wade in and Stir the Water, Make a Difference