3RD ANNUAL
STUDENT SAFETY
CONFERENCE 2026
Building Safer Schools, Strengthening Communities.
November 5 - 6, 2026
Center for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment, Los Angeles, California
Workshops & Sessions
Explore the workshops and presentations planned for this year's conference. Check back for updates to our growing lineup of sessions.
Where Are the Guns Coming From? Reviewing the Latest CA Crime Guns Trace Report
This presentation relies on data from the CA DOJ Crime Guns Trace Report to break down the source of guns and provides a menu of options for how communities can push for change with this data. Brady has used trace data in different communities across the country to hold the gun industry accountable and seeks to work with youth, teachers, and practitioners to improve public safety.
Fast & Fatal: Empowering Youth to Make Safer Choices Behind the Wheel
Fast & Fatal, developed by Street Racing Kills (SRK), is an interactive, youth-centered traffic safety workshop designed to engage young people in honest conversations about illegal street racing, street takeovers, speeding, distracted driving, impaired driving, peer pressure, and other dangerous driving behaviors. The workshop also addresses the important roles of passengers and peers, empowering young people to recognize dangerous situations, speak up, and make safer choices.
From Root Causes to Ripple Effects
This presentation helps youth look beyond the violence they see in their communities and explore what may be happening underneath it. The session examines root causes like poverty, trauma, easy access, and media, the ripple effects violence can have on people and communities, and how young people can use their voice and actions to help create positive change.
Restorative Justice as a Praxis of Radical Love through Ubuntu and In Lak’ech
This interactive and dialogical session invites participants to reimagine restorative justice as a praxis of love, relationship, and collective responsibility. Participants will explore a brief history of restorative justice and its connections to radical love, Ubuntu, Indigenous ways of knowing, ancestral wisdom, storytelling, and community responsibility. The session will then move from theory into practice through a facilitated Story Circle.
Beyond Youth Voice: Designing Safer, Youth-Centered Programs
This interactive workshop helps educators, behavioral health professionals, youth advocates, and community partners move beyond simply “asking for youth voice” toward designing programs and services with young people. Through a youth-centered design framework, guided self-assessment, and small-group activity, participants will identify practical ways to strengthen safety, trust, engagement, and responsiveness to young people’s needs.
From Life Lessons to Learning Experiences: Design Your Own Play-Based Activities
This hands-on workshop helps staff turn real-life lessons into playful, immersive SEL experiences students remember. Drawing on CASEL's core competencies, design thinking, intergenerational wisdom, and play therapy, participants explore ways to support character development, mental health, identity, and lasting life skills.
Archetypes of Humanity: The Master Map of Relationships
This interactive workshop introduces four universal archetypes: Sovereign, Warrior, Magician, and Lover, exploring how each brings unique strengths, challenges, and communication styles. Through self-discovery and practical exercises, participants will identify their own archetype, navigate different personalities, improve communication, resolve conflict, and develop resilience, trust, and stronger relationships.
Connection Before Crisis: Mentoring to Support Student Well-Being
This interactive workshop introduces Garden Pathways' on-campus youth mentoring strategy and Youth Mentoring Toolkit, designed to help organizations establish and replicate mentoring services. Participants will explore how supportive relationships with trusted adults, individualized guidance, and access to resources can strengthen student engagement, complement school safety efforts, and support positive youth development. The session will also examine practical considerations for implementing mentoring programs and strengthening school-community partnerships.
Empower, Inform, Protect: A Countywide Response to Immigration Impacts in Schools
This presentation explores how education agencies, school districts, and community partners can coordinate responses to immigration-related uncertainty while prioritizing student safety, dignity, and belonging. Through three interconnected priorities—empowering educators, informing families, and protecting students—participants will examine approaches to culturally responsive communication, coordinated planning, and connections to trusted resources that support welcoming and protective school environments.
About My Period: Building Menstrual Equity Through Schools and Community Action
This workshop introduces the origins of About My Period and its approach to menstrual health education, access, and advocacy. Participants will explore how to launch initiatives, develop programming, and establish partnerships with schools to advance menstrual equity. The session will highlight youth-focused approaches that are inclusive, educational, and empowering, along with opportunities for schools and community organizations to strengthen menstrual health awareness, access, and support.
Rooted in Trust: Engaging Youth in Environmental Education During Uncertain Times
This session explores how environmental education programs can build trust with systems-impacted youth and families. It highlights strategies, including relationship-based programming and culturally responsive engagement, that help foster trust, sustain engagement, and create supportive spaces for youth and families navigating instability.
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Workshop lineup and presentation details are subject to change.
━ ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
At Southern California Crossroads, the idea for the Student Safety Conference grew out of our work with young people, schools, families, and communities across Los Angeles County. Launched in 2024, the conference creates a space for people working across student safety to connect, share their experiences, and learn from one another.
Now in its third year, the conference brings together educators, youth-serving organizations, public agencies, community leaders, and service providers. Attendees leave with practical strategies, useful resources, new connections, and ideas they can bring back to the communities they serve.
Stay tuned for conference updates! Follow us on Instagram: @studentsafetyconference.
Safety in our schools and communities starts with us.
2 DAYS
Of learning and connection
LOS ANGELES
At the California Endowment
SESSIONS
Workshops, panels, and conversations
TOOLS
Resources you can use in your community
━ HOW CAN YOU JOIN US?
Attend the Conference
Join people working across schools, public agencies, and community organizations to talk about the issues affecting young people today and share approaches that are making a difference. Join us for two days of practical conversations, new perspectives, and opportunities to connect with people working toward the same goal.
Present at the Conference
We are looking for presenters who have something to share with those working alongside young people every day. Share your strategies, lessons learned, new perspectives, or an important youth safety issue you believe deserves more attention. Workshops, panels, demonstrations, youth-led sessions, and other interactive formats are welcome.
