Arising from a two-day summit which took place last month, sponsored by the Brooklyn Center for Quality Life (BCQL) in conjunction with the Brooklyn\u2019s District Attorney\u2019s Office, a follow-up meeting was held to strengthen and build partnership in addressing youth violence, gang and crime prevention, and mental health.<\/p>\n
Advocates converged Aug. 6 at the Ebenezer Urban Ministry Center in Brownsville to move forward with some concrete plans to ensure public resources become accessible to businesses willing to establish their work to strengthen public safety for the communities and for young people involved in criminal activities to become aware of these resources.<\/p>\n
The group of participants, which included clergy leaders, members of the NYPD, educators, non-profit executives, mental health professionals, and concerned community advocates, all listened to Brooklyn\u2019s District Attorney Eric Gonzalez as he explained that resources are available to help make public safety better in Brooklyn, However, he said, demolishing gang violence, and other criminal activities need restorative justice and conflict resolution.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe justice system should not be a perpetual lifetime punishment for the criminals,\u201d he expressed.\n<\/p>\n
In explaining further, the Brooklyn district attorney said some programs are underutilized.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cBrooklyn gets the resources, but there is an information gap,\u201d Gonzalez stated. Presenting a further argument, he noted that the people who are disconnected from resources need to find the people who are connected to the resources and work with them. The clergy leaders are crucial for this restoration, he emphasized.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has a big voice for solution and resources. I will bridge with the community, I am willing to partners with other leaders and officials to help,\u201d he declared.\n<\/p>\n
The district attorney added that it should be restoration with justice, establishing a bridge with the community.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe community\u2019s involvement intensify the good of our programs,\u201d the D.A. added.\n<\/p>\n
The D.A. further added that the young men are hurting. \u201cThe restoration was created to help,\u201d he said. \u201cWe took young men who were rivals and make them friends.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Participants\u2019 understanding that the objective of the meeting was to avoid working as an isolationist were reminded by Bishop Gilford Monrose, facilitator and organizer of the meeting, that the work is to collaborate the efforts of each organization and connect the young people to the businesses with the resources \u201cwhere all participants support each other\u2019s effort.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFind organizations that are connected to the young people,\u201d Bishop Monrose suggested.\n<\/p>\n
Bishop Monrose elaborated on the need to establish business relationships to enhance the work and develop programs.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSome leaders are expressing their frustration for lack of support and resources,\u201d the Bishop hinted, informing the group, \u201cWe hold these meetings for leaders to collaborate,\u2026some things go unanswered; we would like the victims to be supported.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron Williams, a community trailblazer in the Brownsville area, said he has tried to pass on information first-hand to community residents about the available resources in various organizations, but the information needs collaborated and to be pushed, stating his voice is not enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arising from a two-day summit which took place last month, sponsored by the Brooklyn Center for Quality Life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-324998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}