Youth Leadership and Diversion

  • Conscious Classrooms

    Conscious Classrooms is an in-school program for middle or high school youth focused on building the awareness, knowledge, & skills students need to promote respect, advocate for social justice, and strengthen the learning environment in classrooms and schools.

    CCEJ offers FREE Conscious Classrooms Facilitator Training at the our office in Long Beach. This is a 3-day training followed by practice sessions.

  • Building Bridges for Youth

    Building Bridges for Youth offers leadership programs to educate and empower youth to lead change for equity and justice in our communities.

    Programs include:

    -Building Bridges Camp

    -Building Bridges Leadership Academy (BBLA)

    -Summer Youth Leadership Institute

  • Healing Harms

    Healing Harms is CCEJ’s Restorative Youth Diversion team. We work with communities across Southern California to create more humane and just ways for people in serious conflict to find change, accountability and healing.

    REAL Resiliency equips young people with tools to navigate systems that perpetuate structural inequities in our society and handle challenges in their lives, families, schools, and communities.

Curious about bringing CCEJ’s Youth Leadership programs to your school or organization? Want to cultivate adult allyship?

Read our Youth Leadership Menu of Services to learn about:

  • Customized Youth Leadership Workshops

  • Conscious Classrooms Units

  • Technical Assistance & Coaching Services

  • Customized Adult Allyship in Action Workshops

Contact us to get more information!

Key Team Members

  • Ali Haezaert-House, M.A.

    Director, Healing Harms

  • Serena Padilla

    Director of Building Bridges for Youth

  • Sarah Rana

    Building Bridges Program Coordinator - Residential Leadership

  • Donna Stewart, M.A.Ed.

    Restorative Justice Specialist

  • Tobías Vasquez

    Youth Leadership Coordinator