This curriculum is designed to travel. Bring it to a classroom, a staff meeting, a hospital training, a family advocacy session, or a courtroom. The numbers shift by context. The pattern doesn't.
"We help families unpack the whys — in everything. The data is where we start. The conversation is where the work happens."Ashle Rodriguez-Perdomos · Founder, The Jackie Project
The Jackie Project goes into the building, sits with students and staff, and builds a framework that actually fits — one that honors every individual in the room.
"The hawk doesn't get to decide how the colony is ran. Culture is determined the minute you step in the building — what is your welcome mat saying?"Ashle Rodriguez-Perdomos · Founder, The Jackie Project
These numbers are happening in buildings right now — in hallways, in discipline offices, in the gap between what teachers intend and what students experience.
Black students represent 15% of enrollment but 38% of suspensions. These disparities start in preschool — before a child ever enters a graded classroom.
A student's sense of belonging is a stronger predictor of graduation than GPA. When culture is hostile or invisible, academic outcomes follow.
Only 9% of U.S. high school students can correctly identify the role of slavery in the Civil War. What a school teaches — and doesn't — tells students whose history matters.
Over 31,000 student safety and wellness reports were filed in Colorado in 2024–25 — a program record, up 10.5% year over year.
When your child is struggling in school and nobody seems to be listening, the instinct is to fight the system. The Jackie Project helps families go deeper — understanding the whys behind what their child is carrying, and what role the home culture is playing in all of it.
Learn how schools see your child — the language they use, the decisions they make, and why. You can't advocate for what you don't understand.
Your experience in school lives in your body. Before you can help your child navigate it, you have to understand how your own story is showing up at home.
Walk into every IEP meeting, every discipline hearing, every conversation with a principal knowing exactly what your child needs — and how to make the system hear it.
The Jackie Project meets families where they are — whether you're a foster parent trying to understand a child's history, a bio parent whose kid just got suspended, or a family that feels completely lost. The work starts by unpacking the whys. All of them.
Healthcare disparities aren't only about access. They're about whether a patient is believed, heard, and taken seriously — and that's a culture problem.
"You cannot create a culture of care for patients when the staff has never been asked to examine their own assumptions about who deserves it."Ashle Rodriguez-Perdomos · Founder, The Jackie Project
Providers don't have to be overtly racist for bias to shape outcomes. It lives in assumptions about pain tolerance, in who gets referred for specialty care, in who gets believed.
Black patients receive less pain medication than white patients with identical diagnoses — consistently, across provider race and medical specialty.
Black adults are 20% more likely to experience serious mental illness but 50% less likely to receive treatment. Distrust in the system is rational — and documented.
Black patients are less likely to be referred for specialty care and cardiac interventions even after adjusting for insurance status and presenting symptoms.
Only 25% of medical schools require coursework in structural racism and health inequity. Cultural humility — which requires ongoing self-examination — is even rarer in clinical practice.
Families — especially Black, brown, and Indigenous families — often leave medical appointments feeling dismissed, unheard, or confused about what just happened. The Jackie Project helps families understand why, and what to do about it.
Understanding how bias shows up in clinical settings isn't about assuming the worst — it's about being prepared to name what's happening when it does.
The families who get heard are the ones who know which questions to ask. We help you build that language before you're in the room, not after.
Generational distrust of the medical system is real and rational. We help families understand that history — and decide how to move through it, not just around it.
The Jackie Project works with families to unpack what they believe about healthcare, where those beliefs came from, and how they're shaping what their children expect from the systems meant to care for them.
Advocacy without understanding the system is just noise. The Jackie Project helps individuals, families, and organizations understand how these systems work — and how to move inside them with intention.
"You can be the loudest person in the room and still leave with nothing. Advocacy is about knowing what you're asking for — and why the system is set up to say no."Ashle Rodriguez-Perdomos · Founder, The Jackie Project
Schools, hospitals, courts, child welfare agencies — these systems speak a language most families were never taught. That gap isn't accidental. And it isn't the family's fault.
Organized by the system you're navigating — schools, healthcare, courts, foster care, crisis lines, and downloadable templates. Know your rights. Find your people. Walk into every room prepared.
The Jackie Project works with families to build the language, tools, and confidence to advocate in any room. The work starts with understanding your own whys — not the system's.
You can name what's happening to your child. You understand the terms, the processes, and the rights you have in every room you walk into.
You know exactly what to do next — whether that's requesting an evaluation, filing a grievance, or asking for a meeting with the right person.
You stop deferring to the system. You walk in knowing your child's story matters as much as any report, any file, any professional opinion in that room.
Why did the school suspend my child? Why does the caseworker keep recommending this? Why do I feel like nobody is listening? The Jackie Project doesn't just help you get louder — it helps you understand what you're actually up against, and how to move through it with your family intact.
The criminal and juvenile justice systems are where school discipline, healthcare denial, and family separation converge. The Jackie Project helps individuals, families, and organizations understand the pipeline — and interrupt it.
"By the time a child enters the justice system, a hundred smaller decisions were already made about them. Culture shaped every single one."Ashle Rodriguez-Perdomos · Founder, The Jackie Project
The justice system is the downstream consequence of every other domain. School discipline, workplace exclusion, healthcare denial, and placement instability all feed into contact with this system.
Students who are suspended are 3× more likely to have contact with the juvenile justice system by 18. Black students are disproportionately suspended — the pipeline starts in elementary school.
Black defendants receive sentences 19.1% longer than white defendants for the same federal crimes, after controlling for criminal history and other factors. These gaps exist at every stage.
Re-entry programs that address identity, community belonging, and cultural reconnection — not just job skills — show significantly better outcomes. Culture is infrastructure.
Youth in detention are disproportionately Black and brown and have the highest rates of school changes, family separation, and unaddressed trauma. The culture inside those facilities shapes who comes out.
When a child enters the justice system, the family often carries the weight of it as if it was their failure. The Jackie Project helps families understand the systems that shaped this moment — and find their footing inside them.
From school discipline to juvenile court — understand how your child got here, what decisions were made along the way, and by whom. The pipeline has a name.
The system will reduce your child to a file. The Jackie Project helps families hold the full story — and bring it into every hearing, every meeting, every decision point.
Kids who've had justice system contact are carrying something heavy. How that heaviness gets unpacked at home — with honesty, with language, with love — determines what comes next.
The Jackie Project works with families at every stage — before contact, during proceedings, and through re-entry. Whether you're a foster family navigating a youth's history, a bio family trying to understand what happened, or a parent who needs someone to help them understand the whys — this is the work.