Game Changers: Every Student Matters

The Power of Stories is an archive of projects submitted every year to Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Statewide Convening. It showcases work created throughout California highlighting the power of individual and collective efforts to promote health and demonstrates how stories have the power to re-imagine and transform our communities. Produced in partnership with the California Endowment.

Project submitted by: Every Student Matters

Project summary: Youth involvement and leadership in Every Student Matters (ESM) campaign leads to successful passage of the School Discipline Resolution in Long Beach Unified School District.

BHC site: Long Beach

Every Student Matters (ESM) is a youth-led policy advocacy campaign organized by the Building Healthy Communities: Long Beach - Youth Committee to promote practices that create healthy and supportive school climates, and a path to college and career. ESM believes that to build a vibrant future for Long Beach where every young person has a fair chance to thrive and succeed, we need to invest in our youth and in the health of our school communities.