Esperanza Dillard & Talila "TL" Lewis | HEARD | 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize
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3 سال پیش
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Esperanza Dillard and Talila "TL"
Esperanza Dillard and Talila "TL" Lewis
HEARD
Nationwide
Creating the first reentry program of its kind in the U.S., HEARD centers language and disability justice to support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated deaf/disabled people, who face unique challenges in the criminal legal system. Pervasive lack of access throughout carceral settings deepens social and linguistic isolation for incarcerated deaf/disabled people, who face persistent abuse and neglect. To address the needs of these multiply marginalized communities, HEARD provides peer support, direct services, and harm reduction education that help returning deaf/disabled people heal and thrive. With few accessible resources in American Sign Language or other sign languages that inform deaf/disabled people about how the criminal legal system works, HEARD is developing signs for social justice–related English words that currently have no sign equivalents—such as “mass incarceration” and “abolition”—while also providing some of the only accessible, signed support for learning conflict resolution, restorative justice, and harm reduction. A hallmark of the program is HEARD’s staff of formerly incarcerated deaf people who serve as peer educators and community interpreters, offering empathy and mentorship that foster collective healing.
Learn More About This Project
https://behearddc.org/
Twitter: behearddc
Instagram: behearddc
About The J.M.K. Innovation Prize & The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Drawing on more than three generations of support for early-stage innovation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund launched The J.M.K. Innovation Prize in the belief that social entrepreneurship can spark transformative change. Currently on a biennial schedule, the Prize reaches across America to identify, support, and elevate nonprofit and mission-driven, for-profit organizations that are spearheading visionary, early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice.
The J.M. Kaplan Fund champions transformative social, environmental, and cultural causes through inventive grant-making. Over its 75-year history, the Fund has devoted $280 million to propel fledgling efforts concerning civil liberties, human rights, the arts, and the conservation and enhancement of the built and natural worlds. Today, the Fund is active across the United States and beyond, operating grant programs focusing on social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation. Learn more at http://www.jmkfund.org
Transcription
TL signing: Hello, my name is Talila Lewis. My sign name is TL. I don't use pronouns. Use my name instead of pronouns. I work for an organization called HEARD, which is signed as listening from the heart.
Esperanza signing: My name is Esperanza, an "E" tapping on the right side of my chin. I use she and her pronouns. Our project is based all over the United States and it is called holistic reentry for deaf and disabled signing communities. HEARD is a cross disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders – to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
TL signing: For the past few years, many different networks of people in social justice movements, have excluded and ignored disability and ableism. With the J.M.K. Innovation Prize, we can shift this.
Esperanza signing: In three years, the program will be a fully funded, self-sustaining, replicable program that supports the ongoing development of skills of cohorts, of formerly incarcerated, deaf and disabled people. Program participants will have worked to create the first toolkit in American Sign Language, Spanish, and English. For families, advocates, and communities supporting currently incarcerated and returning deaf and disabled people. The toolkit covers a range of information, including, how to exhaust the jail and prison grievance procedures, the impact of social and linguistic isolation on deaf and disabled peoples. Emotional, behavioral, mental, and physical health. Also, it will include how-to videos for formerly incarcerated people to watch on their own, to learn about and use technologies and apps that have been developed while they were incarcerated.
HEARD
Nationwide
Creating the first reentry program of its kind in the U.S., HEARD centers language and disability justice to support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated deaf/disabled people, who face unique challenges in the criminal legal system. Pervasive lack of access throughout carceral settings deepens social and linguistic isolation for incarcerated deaf/disabled people, who face persistent abuse and neglect. To address the needs of these multiply marginalized communities, HEARD provides peer support, direct services, and harm reduction education that help returning deaf/disabled people heal and thrive. With few accessible resources in American Sign Language or other sign languages that inform deaf/disabled people about how the criminal legal system works, HEARD is developing signs for social justice–related English words that currently have no sign equivalents—such as “mass incarceration” and “abolition”—while also providing some of the only accessible, signed support for learning conflict resolution, restorative justice, and harm reduction. A hallmark of the program is HEARD’s staff of formerly incarcerated deaf people who serve as peer educators and community interpreters, offering empathy and mentorship that foster collective healing.
Learn More About This Project
https://behearddc.org/
Twitter: behearddc
Instagram: behearddc
About The J.M.K. Innovation Prize & The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Drawing on more than three generations of support for early-stage innovation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund launched The J.M.K. Innovation Prize in the belief that social entrepreneurship can spark transformative change. Currently on a biennial schedule, the Prize reaches across America to identify, support, and elevate nonprofit and mission-driven, for-profit organizations that are spearheading visionary, early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice.
The J.M. Kaplan Fund champions transformative social, environmental, and cultural causes through inventive grant-making. Over its 75-year history, the Fund has devoted $280 million to propel fledgling efforts concerning civil liberties, human rights, the arts, and the conservation and enhancement of the built and natural worlds. Today, the Fund is active across the United States and beyond, operating grant programs focusing on social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation. Learn more at http://www.jmkfund.org
Transcription
TL signing: Hello, my name is Talila Lewis. My sign name is TL. I don't use pronouns. Use my name instead of pronouns. I work for an organization called HEARD, which is signed as listening from the heart.
Esperanza signing: My name is Esperanza, an "E" tapping on the right side of my chin. I use she and her pronouns. Our project is based all over the United States and it is called holistic reentry for deaf and disabled signing communities. HEARD is a cross disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders – to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
TL signing: For the past few years, many different networks of people in social justice movements, have excluded and ignored disability and ableism. With the J.M.K. Innovation Prize, we can shift this.
Esperanza signing: In three years, the program will be a fully funded, self-sustaining, replicable program that supports the ongoing development of skills of cohorts, of formerly incarcerated, deaf and disabled people. Program participants will have worked to create the first toolkit in American Sign Language, Spanish, and English. For families, advocates, and communities supporting currently incarcerated and returning deaf and disabled people. The toolkit covers a range of information, including, how to exhaust the jail and prison grievance procedures, the impact of social and linguistic isolation on deaf and disabled peoples. Emotional, behavioral, mental, and physical health. Also, it will include how-to videos for formerly incarcerated people to watch on their own, to learn about and use technologies and apps that have been developed while they were incarcerated.
3 سال پیش
در تاریخ 1400/08/24 منتشر شده
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