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    Category: Youth Incarceration

    Yoga and Active Listening in the Juvenile Justice System: A Meeting Ground for Transformation

    By Paulo Gombos, Co-Founder of The Atma Institute and PYP Brazil Director We believe that true transformation happens when we are seen, heard, and welcomed.…

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    Paul June 12, 2025
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    Prison Yoga Project’s, Nicole Hellthaler, featured on The Redefining Yoga Podcast

    Our Assistant Director, Nicole Hellthaler, episode on The Redefining Yoga Podcast is up today! Let’s Go Prison Yoga Project!!!! Share with your community, friends, and family! Join…

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    Blaire Embrey June 30, 2023
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    Reading through the lines: The correlation between literacy and incarceration

    This article shines light on the school to prison pipeline and one of the factors adding to the struggles of youth; illiteracy. Read the whole…

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    Blaire Embrey March 21, 2022
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    Yoga for Youth and Correctional Staff in 2022

    I can understand how easy it might be to feel discouraged or even outraged right now with our society so divided. I have a reason…

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    Nicole December 23, 2021
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    Back to School Report: Re-engage Students and Close the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    The Sentencing Project brings you a guide and outline of how to not engage in traditional forms of discipline and expulsion that has historically lead…

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    Blaire Embrey August 31, 2021
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    Racial and Ethnic Disparities Drag Down Youth Justice Reform

    This is shared directly from The Sentencing Project. Please save and review this deeply important research and resource: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Profound racial and ethnic disparities…

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    Blaire Embrey July 16, 2021
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    State Juvenile Justice Task Force Finds Too Many First Time Offenders Put In System For Low-Level Crimes

    Although a local or state view of Pennsylvania, this 22 minute segment speaks to issues that are happening in all states. You can listen to…

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    Blaire Embrey June 30, 2021
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    Raising the Age Without Expanding Secure Confinement in the Youth Justice System

    Over the past decade, great strides have been taken to reduce the number of youth incarcerated and to address the racial disparity in the youth…

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    Nicole June 28, 2021
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    Conscious Discipline

    If you were able to see our most recent youth webinar series featuring our Assistant Director, Nicole Hellthaler, you would have heard the words Conscious…

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    Blaire Embrey June 10, 2021
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    The Landscape of Youth Incarceration

    This summer, PYP will turn our attention to a series of webinars focused on youth yoga programming, as we anticipate a return inside soon to…

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    Nicole June 7, 2021
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