Santa Fe College hosts free symposium for justice-impacted individuals
Press release from Santa Fe College
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Santa Fe College will host the 2024 Free to Learn Symposium at Blount Hall on Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This one-day event, sponsored by the Free to Learn initiative, is open to both the college and the community. The theme for the symposium is “Opening Doors for the Justice-Impacted.” Participants will have the opportunity attend numerous workshops exploring three specific tracks:
- Advocating for the Justice-Impacted
- Addressing the Well-Being of the Justice-Impacted
- Identifying Resources and Support for the Justice-Impacted
Participants will also collaborate with community members to identify obstacles and opportunities for opening doors for some of our most vulnerable students. Registration is free for this event.
SF’s Free to Learn initiatives are supported by a Florida Humanities Greater Good: Humanities in Academia Grant for SF’s project Humanities Behind & Beyond Bars. This project seeks to increase public understanding of incarceration in Florida, its impact on communities, and the role of education in reducing recidivism while promoting safer, stronger communities. It aims to amplify the voices of current and formerly incarcerated individuals, especially SF students with carceral experience, to inform how SF can better support this part of the student population. Additionally, the project highlights the challenges faced by those with carceral backgrounds in accessing education and resources that aid in their successful re-entry into the community.
I had to look up what a “justice impacted individual” was.
Turns out it’s a fancy term for criminal or former criminal.
“Justice-impacted individuals include those who have been incarcerated or detained in a prison, immigration detention center, local jail, juvenile detention center, or any other carceral setting, those who have been convicted but not incarcerated, those who have been charged but not convicted, and those who have been arrested.”
I wonder if they will hold a symposium for the victims too.
Victims don’t matter.
One way to not being justice impacted is not to commit a crime in the first place, not enter our country illegally, or be a criminal from another country. If you are one of the vast criminal population that is on probation or parole is not ruin your chance by committing more crime or violating your probation.
“justice impacted individual”
Never ending woke BS designed to sugarcoat the fact they are criminals.
This is perhaps one of the most ridiculous programs I have ever heard of. “Justice-impacted” person means that they committed a crime. The issue is simple – DON’T COMMIT CRIMES! Why is SFC wasting resources to explain the obvious to criminals and the surrounding community. Complete garbage.
“Justice Impacted?” If it’s justice then the “impact” was just and why on earth would a college hold such an absurd seminar? Justice Impacted my hind foot. Ridiculous! Shame on Santa Fe!
This is so stoopid that it’s disgusting that taxpayers fund any part of it. The best way for the “justice-impacted” to rebound is to stop commitin crimes and to recompense their victims, not to mention apologize.