PEP Dallas

Perception Equals Potential (P.E.P.) A campaign of @TexasCJE.

was created to identify and advance community-based solutions to promote the health and safety of students and their schools and reverse the school-to-prison pipeline.

04/19/2024

I spoke with one of my mentors yesterday. Our conversation began with the value and importance of 'experience'. Experience is what makes knowledge applicable, and moves into wisdom. Wisdom is more valuable than silver and gold I'm told.

This is the WHY of our travel program! Give our ambassadors wisdom! We make Restorative Leadership, Community Development, Civic Engagement and Relational Capital TANGIBLE! What better way to learn and express DEI than tangibly.

Our entry point is travel to other countries. The 'WORK' is our companion program. Here we partner with Social Studies, English Language Arts and World Language programs to make tangible, the essential knowledge and skills these programs teach. We make this knowledge wisdom.

We are building future change agents and social architects! Knowledgable and wise. Able to approach global issues with a global perspective. The solutions our society needs are within these ambassadors. Our job is to assist them in cultivating a growth mindset capable of identifying, informing and implementing these solutions! It's said... those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. These ambassadors are situated at the axiom of this statement, and we will equip them to fulfill it.

Partner with us to provide these solution engineers the opportunity to design the solutions our society needs!

CYPI travel Initiative

04/18/2024

We want to thank Leighpicsletters for supporting our CYPI Travel Program!!!!! Understanding 'Relational Capital', the power of 'Perception" and its impact on self and business is what we teach! Relationships will lead to all else. Thank you for supporting us with content creation!

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04/18/2024

Our team and our Ambassadors are extremely grateful for our supporters!!!!! As you support us, we will change not only these lives, but the lives these young men are connected with!
We want to personally thank Craig Tennant, Siegfried Marrissens, Kathryn Kelly, Theresa Hingston, Greenhill School, Melinda Barber, The Canopy Hotel Dallas, and Leighpicsletters!!!
Take the opportunity to enhance your day by supporting future changemakers!

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04/02/2024

I'm super excited to share with everyone that our Travel Abroad experiential learning program is expanding the minds and experiences of 19 Black and Brown youth this year!!!! Our 'ambassadors' will travel to Stuttgart, Germany this year to participate in SCORA MEET 24. They, along with 300+ youth from India, Germany and Israel will come together to discuss issues such as global leadership, ending racism and global community building. Making change in the world begins with changing perceptions and building community! We are giving these ambassadors the opportunity to be a part of conversations they are normally affected by.
I'm very grateful to Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy At A Maceo Smith for partnering with us! Look for more to come! You can keep updated on the exciting opportunities and programs coming your way here https://www.facebook.com/CYPITravel/

CYPI Travel Program The Change Your Perception Initiative (CYPI) travel program aims to make civic engagement, restorative leadership, and cultural competence a tangible experience for BIPOC scholars, especially Black scholars.

11/13/2022

I'm so very proud of the Education Advocacy Services internship, my partners and what we accomplished this (our first) year!!! Educational Advocacy Services is an extension of the 'Perception Equals Potential' (PEP) project. The mission of PEP is to end the school to prison pipeline and the use of exclusionary discipline policies and practices. We do this by empowering students, parents and the communities they inhabit. 'EAS' was created to address an issue exposed by research and outreach.

During the pandemic, Black student wellness was brought into focus. The education system was finally forced to acknowledge the trauma, fall-out and the negative effects systemic racism, poverty and inequity has on specifically Black students, families and communities. Research has long shown the disproportionate affects Zero-tolerance policies and practices had on the Black student population. Equally, research has long proven the ineffectiveness of 'exclusionary discipline', yet, districts as a whole, nationwide, refused to change tactics. Implicit bias, a lack of cultural competence and racism in teachers, admin and mental health professionals consistently removed Black students disproportionally from classrooms, into SPED tracts and the justice system. As a social worker focused on educational justice and equity, my solution was to create EAS. Exposing Social Work interns that are interested in education, to true cultural competence, restorative practices and entrepreneurship within education justice.
We are looking for new interns, districts and universities to partner with.
Interested...please reach out.
Vid credit: Gabrielle Beasley

10/06/2022

Great day today! Linking up with Andrew Hairston of Texas Appleseed and Dr. Chamblee of Despot ISD for a tour of a Dallas ISD Reset Center. Learned a lot and made space for some advocacy work.
We have some amazing interns at PEP Dallas! Very proud of the work they’re doing✊🏿 Thank you Erin Salehi for putting this together

05/31/2022

P.E.P. Talk - Changing Culture: Restorative Justice in Action

For our May 26 P.E.P. Talk, Leon sat down with guest Dr. Nikki Chamblee to address the topic of Changing Culture: Restorative Justice in Action.

P.E.P. Talks are frank conversations about the state of education, brought to you by the Perception Equals Potential (P.E.P.) Initiative, a campaign of the Texas Center for Justice and Equity.

05/31/2022

Our 2022 and YOU Holistic Health Fair was a great event! It was an honor to provide this community with information, food and compassion. Thank you to our partners and we look forward to our next one.

05/26/2022

Good evening all! Life happened and we will start tonight’s PEP Talk @6:30pm. Sorry for the inconvenience BUT tune in @6:30pm to catch us live or watch at your convenience in the page! See you then!

05/24/2022

The Arts and Education

For our May 19 P.E.P. Talk, Leon sat down with guest Tiffany Jackson to address the topic of The Arts and Education

P.E.P. Talks are frank conversations about the state of education, brought to you by the Perception Equals Potential (P.E.P.) Initiative, a campaign of the Texas Center for Justice and Equity.The

05/17/2022

This is the last week to register for our upcoming Family Holistic Health Fair in Pleasant Grove!!! You want to attend!!!

Food🥖🥐🥯🍔🌭🍓🍉🍇
Fun 🎪🎭🎼🎤
Giveaways 🎉📦🎰
FREE FOOD
Education and MORE!

The American Black Cross sponsored our gifts and food!!!

The Food Network is looking for the NEXT Kids Baking Champion- come join us to find out how YOU can apply!!!

Join us THIS SATURDAY MAY 21st from 9:30am-2pm

• Address: 1910 N St Augustine Rd, Dallas, TX 75217

03/25/2022

For our March 24 P.E.P. Talk, Leon sat down with guest Mia Street to address the topic, How Are the Children? Watch this week's "frank conversation on the state of education" here!

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