The organization Not Just Us is hosting “End Hate Across the State” event in New Britain, saying that, “By joining together we have more of a voice to ensure youths of diversity can go from the school to prison pipeline to the school to success pathways.”
“We want youths and their families to receive up front services as opposed to locking them up after they have been involved in the justice system,” the organization says. “Incarceration just doesn’t work. We want to ensure families receive preventive resources. We need to create opportunities for youths to succeed. That will be more productive in the long run.”
The “End Hate Across the State” event is to be on June 30, 2024 at 1:00pm in downtown New Britain.
Not Just Us says its goals are, “to ensure all individuals live in a safe and nurturing environment, are able to meet their immediate needs of education, employment, and literacy.”
Not Just Us says it,
is a statewide collaborative, which has over 750 members from across the state of Connecticut, which advocates for students and their families of diversity, including race, faith, LGBQTIA+, foster and adoptive, disabilities, indigenous, and lower socioeconomic incomes. We have held numerous statewide Zoom events and New Britain will be our next in person event. We advocate for housing, mental health, financial, medical, educational, and recreational needs for all individuals. We have held these events in Hartford, Ellington, New London, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Torrington, Rocky Hill, Norwalk, Middletown, Southbury, New Haven, Tolland, and Bloomfield.
Editor’s note (6/18/2024): The article was updated related to the location, reportedly to be in downtown New Britain.
