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Check out the links below each project to learn more and get involved.

After-School & Summer Leadership Projects:

  • Legal rights, community outreach, and public speaking training.
  • Expert-level training in the Conflicts with Cops curriculum.
  • Design and production of a film about a social or criminal justice issue of students' choice.

    Download a Leadership Project application. Internship applications are accepted on a rolling basis for the upcoming project cycle.

STATE Shout Out: Being a leader


STATE Shout Out: Violence Can Be Prevented



STATE Shout Out: Workshop Give Feeling of Accomplishment


STATE Shout Out: Don't Bug Out Be Respectful


STATE Shout Out: Be Respectful With Police




Conflicts with Cops Intensive:

  • 11-week intensive curriculum.
  • Presented in schools and community organizations.
  • Conflict resolution, street law, and legal rights training.
  • Improvisation and role-playing.

    Email a CWC Intensive request to our program staff.

Executive Internship Project:

  • Summer and Academic-year placements.
  • Rigorous legal rights, community outreach, and general job skills training.
  • Dynamic office setting with frequent field trips.

    Download an Internship application. Intern applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Know Your Rights Workshops:

  • 1-hour workshops.
  • Presented in schools and community organizations.
  • Legal rights training concerning police stops, searches, and arrests.
  • Special curriculum for youth, as well as parents and teachers.

    Email a Workshop request to our program staff. *Please specify to what type of audience (youth, parents, or teachers) you are interested in having us present.

Youth Board:

  • Coalition of past STATE participants.
  • Youth-led meetings about youth and community issues.

    Email us to request an invitation to the next Youth Board meeting.

STATE Shout Out: The Youth Board


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