Exchange for Change: What Happens when Police & Youth Come Together to Try to Bridge the Gap
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Exchange for Change: What Happens when Police & Youth Come Together to Try to Bridge the Gap
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About this listen
Speaking for Kids host Matt Gillard, president and CEO of Michigan’s Children,
welcomes participants from Peckham - Flint’s recent “Exchange for Change” program,
the multi-week roundtable between law enforcement officers and court-involved youths.
Over four weeks, seven officers from the Genesee County Sheriff’s Department and
Flint Police sat down with seven youths enrolled in Peckham’s Youth Services Program
with the goal to find ways to “bridge the gap” between the community and police. They
explored difficult topics including trauma, implicit bias, policing practices, and individual
rights, and discovered a shared desire to improve their home community. In this
podcast, Matt talks with the guests about the impact the Flint Water Crisis had on youth
behavior and the distrust of authority that emerge from that environmental disaster. The
Flint cohort is the third in a series of dialogues that started with meetings between local
law enforcement and youth enrolled in Peckham’s Lansing program since the program
launched in November 2021. A fourth session is planned in the fall. The program is a
collaboration between Peckham and Michigan’s Children. Listen to it today.