Stay Gold Movement
The “Stay Gold” phrase has origins in The Outsiders book written by S.E. Hinton and the Robert Frost poem referenced within. Read more about the connection to Yakez here.
The Stay Gold Movement in Yakez’s name aims to carry forward the Stay Gold philosophy through his friends and family, the expansive community of lives he touched, and through the efforts of a group of loving and intentional folx who are committed to creating a more safe, compassionate, and socially just world.
We embrace the principles of Shared Safety and the belief that communities must invest in a strong safety infrastructure of wellbeing and trauma recovery – and not a system of policing – in order to build whole communities.
Mission: Through community organizing, education, policy work and advocacy, the Stay Gold Movement works to shift policy, build the collective power of survivors, and create useful resources for survivors of community violence in order to create systemic change and bring forward a vision of shared safety for all.
The Stay Gold Movement’s focus include:
- Resources and supports for survivors
- Policy reform and advocacy
- Fair media initiatives
- Survivor-centric courtroom initiatives
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