2024 CPS Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)

As the role of an RJC is relatively new within CPS, administrators may not yet know how to best support / utilize this position. Our session will offer admin clarity on this role, what its main functions are, and what an RJC can bring to their school community. Particular attention will be given to how administrators can best support their RJC to effectively implement a school-wide restorative culture shift.

In Partnership with with Brother Parrish Brown, Director of Partnerships, Good Looking Out, LLC

Born on the west side of Chicago and raised on the south side of Chicago, Parrish has always been involved in uplifting people and his community. Parrish spent four years advocating to keep his high school Walter H. Dyett open, two years to get a level 1 trauma center built at the University of Chicago for south side residents, one year to stop Mercy hospital from closing, and five years to win a commuinty benefit agreement ordiance for areas surrounding the Obama Presidential Center to stop displacement. After ending his six year career as the Restorative Justice Coordinator and Sustainable Community Schools Coordinator in 2022, he is now spearheading Good Looking Out (GLO) as the Director of Partnerships. Parrish's life work is to build a culture in which people build strong authentic and positive relationships with each other for themselves and future generations. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Urban Studies from the Unviersity of Illinois at Chicago.