Last Tuesday, April 16th, 2019, around 5pm, 18 year-old Davion Powell was shot and killed outside of the S.O.S. Crown Heights catchment at 1483 St Johns Pl, between Rochester and Utica. Three days later on April 19th, 50 people came to gather around the site of his death to renounce the violence and to show […]
CONTINUE READING →On Saturday, April 6, 2019, the Fifth Annual Paving the Way Conference gathered about 240 healing practitioners, advocates, organizers, researchers, survivors, service providers, and community members at St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf. It was a remarkable day of learning, healing, and uniting. This year’s theme, Healing Equity: From Practice to Power, asked […]
CONTINUE READING →During the evening of Monday, April 8th, 2019, a teenage black man, only 19 years old, was non-fatally shot in the leg at 1213 Prospect Place. Two days later on April 10th, S.O.S. Crown Heights gathered at the site for a shooting response. That Wednesday afternoon was a sunny day, and many young people were […]
CONTINUE READING →In honor of National Volunteer Month this April, we’re featuring some of our volunteers on our blog, and today we’d like to introduce you to Susan! Susan started as a volunteer at Legal Hand in August 2018, but then asked for even more ways to get involved. So she started volunteering with Neighbors in Action […]
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since the last shooting
S.O.S. works hard to create safer and healthier neighborhoods and we invite you to join us in these efforts.
since the last shooting
S.O.S. works hard to create safer and healthier neighborhoods and we invite you to join us in these efforts.
