# @lakidsrights on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCGJ2ibu_I_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24687949-lakidsrights-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-08T03:59:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Louisiana Center for Children's Rights (@LAKidsRights) — https://gondola.cc/LAKidsRights

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"There’s this perception that Black kids that make mistakes are not also our children. We’re not seeing the children in our community and city as ours or as the future. If we did, we’d be more intentional in how we speak about them, interact with them, and teach them.”⁠
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One of most recent additions to the LCCR team is our first ever Strategic Storyteller, Cierra Chenier (cierrachenier). Within her role, Cierra will be leading LCCR’s efforts to combat the harmful narratives surrounding Black youth and work with LCCR’s policy team, the Youth Justice Advocates, and other community partners and allies to develop campaigns aimed at changing how the public views Black teens in our city. ⁠
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Despite the likelihood that Black youth in Louisiana are five times more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts, they too are like any other kids who want to be safe, loved, and cared for by their community. When they make mistakes, as all teens do, they need to be afforded the opportunity and grace to learn from those mistakes in an age-appropriate ways that don't include incarceration.

We look forward to seeing the fruits of Cierra's campaign work take shape in the new year and hope that you'll join us in rejecting narratives that not only sow seeds of fear of our children but also further criminalize them.  Learn more about Cierra and the Strategic Storyteller role using the #linkinourbio.

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