Safe and Healthy Community Archives
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We are excited to announce the dates for our annual Kingston Avenue Festival and Bed-Stuy Summer Kickoff as part of our annual Arts to End Violence program! Kingston Avenue Festival Saturday May 14 1PM-5PM Kingston Avenue between Bergen Street and Pacific Street Bedford-Stuyvesant Summer Kick-Off Saturday June 11 11AM-7PM Lafayette Avenue between Marcy Avenue and Tompkins Avenue At […]
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April 1 – Student Day at the Mediation Center We often receive requests from high school, college, and graduate students who want to speak with the S.O.S. team and learn more about the work we do at the Mediation Center. So many students contacted us this month we decided to have an information session for […]
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Groundswell works with youth artists to design, paint, and install murals in their communities. This year they have designed a mural that hopes to capture the nuance of Crown Heights. The mural has been titled “One Crown Heights” and will be installed this summer. Until then, Groundswell and partners on this project, including the Crown Heights Community […]
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On March 7, 2016 Kenton Kirby, Director of Trauma Support Services at the Mediation Center, was interviewed on BK Live about how the Make It Happen program works to support high-risk youth. When asked about how he measures success among participants in the program he said: “We look at healing as a process. There’s going to […]
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This year the Mediation Center will host our sixth annual Arts to End Violence festival which includes a variety of events centered on art as a tool for anti-violence work. This year’s festival will include a talent show, an interactive theater performance, a youth-led multimedia presentation, a block party, and an anti-violence art gallery show. Artists, merchants, […]
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The second annual “Paving the Way to Healing and Recovery: Conversations with Young Men of Color Who Survive Violence” conference will be on April 25, 2016! It is important to us that this exploration of promising practices lift up the experience not only of some of the larger nonprofits working in this area, but equally, the voices […]
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On Friday December 18, more than 40 community members, S.O.S. volunteers, YO S.O.S. participants, and staff gathered at the Mediation Center for the annual S.O.S. Holiday Party. The party was an opportunity for people to enjoy good food and music together. Children played pin the carrot on the snowman and gathered at the craft […]
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On Saturday December 12, S.O.S. Clergy Action Network joined Beulah Church of the Nazarene for their Christmas in Crown Heights Caroling Excursion. This event was an opportunity to celebrate the spirit of the holidays safely as a community, and to remember those who lost their lives to gun violence this past year. Over 150 community members, […]
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This past Saturday, S.O.S. Crown Heights held its fourth annual Lead By Example tournament. Two hundred young people gathered together peaceably in a city park playground to play ball, and enjoy each other’s company, music, and food. Check out more photos on our Facebook page. Photo credit: Joe Quint (If anyone objects to having their […]
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Come share your ideas and meet your neighbors! For 10 weeks this winter, join your neighbors in using theater activities to explore what it means to be safe in the neighborhood along Franklin Avenue. Free. All are welcome. No theater experience necessary.“Safe in This Place” is a theater-based workshop series that will engage residents of […]
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