Breaking Chains Building Futures
By: Isaac Barragan, Mina Aranda, Johnathan Martinez II
Big Picture High School
Fresno County school District
Our Goal For Breaking Chains Building Futures
Stats
What: Influence and encourage the most vulnerable population to be initiated by gangs to make alternative and healthy choices.
Who: 8th Graders from our feeder Middle School - (Big Picture Middle School)
When/Where: May 2nd at the Kings River Wildlife area
How: Take them out into nature where they will hear from an individual who was sentenced to life in prison for killing someone, but turned their life around and is now encouraging others to do the same. Also show them alternative things to do
Why: Kids every year are lead down the wrong path, They get involved in drugs and violent tendencies. Being face first with many people dying and being desensitized to many different types of traumatic events as children
Our Civic Project
Johnathan
Empathy Exercise - Interviewing a peer (Mina)
Isaac
Possible Outcomes from our event
Kids went back home at the end of the day with big smiles and were very open about how they feel despite being very closed off at the beginning. Being able to grow and communicate with one another.
Project Outcomes - (video below)
Civic Education Center
Army Corps of Engineers
Elementary school - Big Picture Elementary School
Speaker - Arnold Trevino, Fresno State Rebound Project
Our Community Partners