1. Working With Black Boys Why are they targeted for discipline? Presenter: Darrick Smith Lincoln Child Center 2010 Lincoln Monthly Training

3. Lincoln Monthly Training Why are you here? What are you looking to gain? 1. What do you expect/hope to get out of this training? 2. What is your biggest challenge working with Black boys? 3. What do you personally struggle with in working with black boys? 4. Where have you been particularly successful in working with Black boys?

7. How are they targeted? Lincoln Monthly Training Suspension/ Expulsion Drop out Low graduation Special Ed/ ADHD Remedial/ Tracking Disease Illness Low quality of life Discrimination is psychological warfare Homicide Prison Environmental hazards Profiling Education Health Safety

14. America’s Response Minstrel, Jim Crow 1876, Birth of a Nation 1915 & Lynchings mostly targeting urban Black males Lincoln Monthly Training Slide 13

15. Nothing New? Lincoln Monthly Training

16. Nothing New? Lincoln Monthly Training The myth of the juvenile Superpredator, John Dilulio, Princeton 1990’s Crack baby myth, immoral and beastly violent “ Tough on crime” laws target urban Black Males 3- strikes, juveniles as adults, crack laws, gang laws

18. Internalized Impression Put a – or a + by each name and tally up the results. Lincoln Monthly Training

19. Lincoln Monthly Training Social Commentary Responses to Current Oppression “ Straight Outta Compton” Historical Connection “ Express Yourself” Why do these N*** have an attitude? Would you run from the police if you haven’t done anything wrong? What if your very existence was treated as “wrong”?

20. Lincoln Monthly Training Oakland Story His Context Youth Movement Records His Message “ Deep east Oakland” Does THIS brotha have an attitude? Wrong place at the wrong time? How about the wrong Race at the wrong time?

21. The Persistent Perception Lincoln Monthly Training Hypermasculine Oversexed Violent animal rage Fearless dangerous

22. The Service Lincoln Monthly Training 1. Too hard on them, negative assumptions 2. Too easy on them, low expectations, feel sorry for them 3. Afraid of them, reinforcing stereotypes Service must be Firm and Caring

26. Lincoln Monthly Training Alignment Program Needs/ Goals Client Needs/ Goals This is where the work should be

27. The Culture (of black male success) Lincoln Monthly Training The Agencies that support Black Males -Youth UpRising -Leadership Excellence (Camp Akili, Freedom Schools) -Mentoring Center -100 Black Men (Man Up!) -OUSD, Office of African American Achievement The Research that feeds Black Male policy -Urban Strategies Council -Policy Link -Alameda County -Black male scholars -US Census

28. Strengths Based Practice How can we raise OUR bar? 1. What do you do well with Black boys? 2. Where can you improve? 3. How can you strengthen your work with Black boys? Lincoln Monthly Training