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Next Tuesday - HNBA's March Community Meeting
March 12th, 7:00 PM
The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association
March 05, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes
Please mark your calendars. You are invited to attend the March HNBA community gathering next Tuesday, March 12th.
We’ll meet at 2306 3rd Avenue (the Salvation Army building) at 7:00 PM, and yes, we’re expecting you.
Starting at 7:00, we’ll have two presentations. First, we’ll meet Tapashi Narine, the new administrator for Harlem’s four historic parks (Morningside, Jackie Robinson, St. Nicholas, and Marcus Garvey). Tapashi will tell us more about upcoming spring and summer park programming and events for you and your family.
Then, as our main event, we’ll have an amazing presentation from Coach Roc of the Peace Brokers. The Peace Brokers are a Department of Justice-recognized violence interrupter organization that is working every day on Harlem’s streets to reduce (youth) gun violence.
The Peace Broker team is staffed by Credible Messengers with the goal of addressing gang/gun violence in Harlem and the South Bronx. As with all of Exodus programming, the Peace Broker team collaborates with different CBOs and focuses on engaging with the community, identifying known gang affiliates and their leaders, and working with them to become active entities in the reduction of gang/gun violence in their community.
Coach Roc and his team have been instrumental in working with teens who are at risk of gang engagement and defusing community tensions. The Peace Brokers are also focused on the many root causes of community violence and advocating for an end to systemic barriers to success.
The Peace Brokers have been awarded money from the District Attorney of New York to work with at-risk teens and are helping to keep our community safe day-in and day-out.
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