Community Link: Reaching the youth ‘Stand Up!’ program

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Every week in Neighborhood Hyperlink, Carolene Mays and Marco Dominguez check out a corporation or enterprise that’s making a optimistic influence on the group.

This week, Mays and Dominguez had been joined by Robert Jackson. Jackson is a nationwide and worldwide speaker. He’s additionally an award successful creator.

‘Stand Up!’ is a company and convention based by Jackson and his spouse, Tawana Jackson.

“I began educating and training at Arlington Highschool and simply began seeing numerous damaged youngsters, but additionally seeing damaged educators. I’ve seen damaged mother and father and I mentioned, what can I do and the way can I assist make a distinction? That’s once I began the consulting simply working with youngsters at first, however now it’s expanded to directors, academics, college students, and fogeys. I journey throughout talking and giving workshops and keynotes and training conferences. Speaking about fairness, variety, and implicit bias; easy methods to educate our black and Hispanic males and maintain them in class, and simply making an attempt to self-care and simply educators caring for themselves,” Jackson mentioned.

“Properly Stand Up, it’s referred to as talking reality and by no means doubting limitless potential. I consider all of our younger folks have the potential to be nice,” Jackson mentioned.

Discover out extra data right here in regards to the conferences developing in July of 2022.