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COVID-19 Vaccine Updates
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NYS COVID-19 Vaccination Administration Program: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-draft-new-york-state-covid-19-vaccination-administration-program
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COVID-19 Vaccine: Get The Facts: https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/
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Brownsville in Violence Out
1667 Pitkin Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11212
718-226-0433
Brownsville In Violence Out (BIVO) is the name of our anti-gun violence initiative serving the 73rd police precinct of Brownsville Brooklyn and is a part of The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Crisis Management System. BIVO follows the evidenced based public health Cure Violence model. This national program model seeks to identify violently injured youth at risk for retaliatory gun violence. The BIVO model works with these young people, their families, friends and local community to help prevent future gun violence in Brownsville, Brooklyn. BIVO provides participants who are between the ages of 16 and 25 with a variety of supportive services, including job training programs and access to employment, legal ​and therapeutic services, as well as school conflict mediation.
BIVO’s work in Brownsville is homegrown as the majority of employees are Brownsville Natives. BIVO seeks to combat gun violence, change unhealthy community norms, amplify the personal stories of change and positive transformation through our community education campaign.
The program includes Violence Interrupters who are known as Credible Messengers. They are individuals who have themselves been involved in and/or exposed to gun violence in their lives and now want to be a part of the solution. They have credibility in Brownsville because they are from Brownsville. Violence Interrupters represent the heart of our street outreach work and go directly into the community to reduce potential conflicts and to interrupt violence through active, on-the-spot conflict mediation.
CAMBA recently expanded BIVO’s critical storytelling campaign. In addition to BIVO participants telling their stories about gun violence, we have engaged parents, other family members, community members and our staff in telling their own stories about gun violence and its impact on their lives. This campaign raises awareness of gun violence in the Brownsville community while empowering local residents to act as anti-gun violence ambassadors of the positive change they want to see in their community.
If you would like more information on the BIVO program, please call us at 718-226-0433. The BIVO program is located at 1667 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Funding is provided by the New York City Council and New York City Task Force to Combat Gun Violence.
Articles found:
https://camba.org/interrupting-violence-in-brooklyn/
https://www.amny.com/news/brooklyn-cure-violence-1-24045441/
SOS Crown Heights & Bed-stuy
Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) is a community-based effort to end gun violence in our neighborhoods.
The S.O.S. Brooklyn staff prevent gun violence from occurring in two target areas within the neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant by mediating conflicts that may end in gun violence and acting as peer counselors to the people who are at risk of perpetrating or being victimized by violence. The S.O.S. teams work closely with neighborhood leaders and businesses to promote a visible and public message against gun violence, encouraging local voices to articulate that shooting is an unacceptable behavior. S.O.S. Brooklyn is a project of Neighbors in Action and the Center for Court Innovation. The Center for Court Innovation also operates two sister S.O.S. sites in the South Bronx.
The Save Our Streets staff is comprised of Program Managers, Outreach Workers, and Violence Interrupters. The outreach staff all have first-hand knowledge of street life and live in or near the program target area. Members of the program’s outreach team use their credibility, influence, and street relationships to detect brewing conflicts and de-escalate and mediate them before they erupt in violence.
Each Outreach Worker serves as a mentor and peer counselor to a caseload of up to 15 high-risk individuals, redirecting them toward positive attitude, behavior, and lifestyle changes. Violence Interrupters concentrate on detecting conflicts and working with the rest of the team to mediate and diffuse them. Other program components are Public Education, Community Mobilization and working with faith-based leaders.
S.O.S. Brooklyn is New York’s first and longest-standing Cure Violence site. To learn more about the Cure Violence model that originated in Chicago, click here.
S.O.S. Crown Heights works closely with local organizations, neighborhood churches and pastors, community residents and the individuals most likely to commit a shooting in the Crown Heights catchment area. The S.O.S. Crown Heights catchment area (area within which the program operates) is from Kingston Avenue to Utica Avenue, and from Atlantic Avenue to Eastern Parkway.
Contact Information for S.O.S. Crown Heights:
Rahson Johnson, Associate Director of Community Safety
rjohnson1@neighborsinaction.org
718-773-6886
256 Kingston Avenue Brooklyn NY 11213
S.O.S. Bed-Stuy works closely with local organizations, neighborhood churches and pastors, community residents and the individuals most likely to commit a shooting in the Bed-Stuy catchment area. The Bed-Stuy catchment area (area within which the program operates) is from Kosciuszko Street to Madison Street and from Nostrand Avenue to Marcus Garvey Boulevard.
Contact Information for S.O.S. Bed-Stuy
Tiffany Murray, Program Manager
718-773-6886
423 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11213
Articles found: -https://www.amny.com/brooklyn/anti-violence-groups-in-brooklyn-take-on-the-rise-of-shootings-in-the-borough/
**May be an available youth engagement program within SOS that AF families and other families may be able to utilize: http://crownheights.org/yosos/
Civilian Complaint Review Board
The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) is an independent agency. It is empowered to receive, investigate, mediate, hear, make findings, and recommend action on complaints against New York City police officers alleging the use of excessive or unnecessary force, abuse of authority, discourtesy, or the use of offensive language. The Board’s investigative staff, composed entirely of civilian employees, conducts investigations in an impartial fashion. The Board forwards its findings to the police commissioner.
In fulfillment of its mission, the Board has pledged:
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To encourage members of the community to file complaints when they feel they have been victims of police misconduct
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To encourage all parties involved in a complaint to come forward and present evidence
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To investigate each allegation thoroughly and impartially
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To make objective determinations on the merits of each case
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To recommend disciplinary actions that are fair and appropriate, if, and when, the investigative findings show that misconduct occurred
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To respect the rights of the civilians and officers
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To engage in community outreach to educate the public about the agency and to respond to concerns relevant to the agency’s mandate
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To report relevant issues and policy matters to the police commissioner
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To offer civilians and officers the opportunity to mediate their complaints in order to promote understanding between officers and the communities they serve
P.E.A.C.E. for PEACE
Founded in 2012 by Mona C. Faison the mission of P.E.A.C.E for Peace (P4P) is to recognize, reform, and reduce challenges facing our at-risk youths and neighborhoods. We assemble Professionals, Educators, Advocates, Community Groups, and Entrepreneurs that work in partnership to reverse the current trends plaguing our communities and youths.
The principal goal of P.E.A.C.E for Peace is to utilize culture, education, and empowerment in our mission to change minds and change lives. The cornerstone of our P4P model begins with social cognitive intervention, a continuum of services through partnerships, alternatives, opportunities, and solutions that support youths ready to become constructive participants in their lives and communities.
AF Public Safety in Our Communities 9/23 6pm-7pm
Mona C. Faison Founder/ Executive Director
We assemble Professionals, Educators, Advocates, Community Groups, and Entrepreneurs that work in partnership to reverse the current trends plaguing our communities and youths. The principal goal of P.E.A.C.E for Peace is to utilize culture, education, and empowerment in our mission to change minds and change lives.
The cornerstone of our P4P model begins with social cognitive intervention, a continuum of services through partnerships, alternatives, opportunities, and solutions that support youths and families ready to become constructive participants in their lives and communities.
Currently we are in response to improve public safety, community relations, gun violence, mental health response and policing the afflictions in our communities. In developing our plan we knew we needed to foster community –oriented leadership, culture, and accountability. How can we achieve that? We start with: determining roles, rights and strategies to improve the racial disparities, educate police policy and citizens rights, we hold each other accountable and then we (individually/collectively) develop a collaborative plan.
We all have a voice and a position are you using yours? How effectively is that for you now? Are we raising leaders? Or followers? Do we know policy and practices? Are the community needs being met? These are the ties that bind us from restoration of community policing and developing/modifying policy that mirrors the communities being served. Lastly the knowledge that their in not one policing ..know your audience, know the community you service. This is not a one track everyone is different so you MUST approach EACH situation accordingingly. How you communicate is EQUALLY important as the message. We are one…we cange change minds and change lives.
Please provide us with links to resources that you will be referencing during the event.
***She has several programs that may be applicable to AF families
· https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/Police_Reform_Workbook81720.pdf
It Starts Here
A program developed by Khari Edwards, former VP of External Relations at Brookdale Hospital. See program overview here.
Articles:
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/nicole-favours/
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/10/brooklyn-hospital-gun-violence-morgue/
Compares the program to having a Scared Straight like approach
Chief Maddrey
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Diana Richardson
Articles: https://www.caribbeanlifenews.com/richardson-wants-n-y-to-do-more-against-gun-violence/
Gun violence funding is something she has been pushing for before the recent upticks
