CeaseFire is a structured, deliberate and disciplined violence intervention that was developed in Chicago based on the premise that violence is a public health issue and can be prevented. The program in Philadelphia is one of the national replication sites of Cure Violence (formerly known as Chicago Ceasefire) public health model and focuses its efforts to stop shootings and killings in hot spots in the 22nd and 39th Police Districts in North Philadelphia. The approach includes efforts to heighten community awareness about gun violence and encourage area residents, community, business and faith based leaders to work together and get involved.
Read More
CCIP combats violence by intervening where the violence is most prevalent. We use credible messengers who are products of Philadelphia's most violent neighborhoods as outreach workers to foster meaningful relationships with would be perpetrators as well as law-abiding residents. CCIP works to provide those involved in criminal activities with positive alternatives. We respond to neighborhood crisis with mediation and resources and a willingness to support anyone looking for a peaceful alternative.
Read More
FTAC maintains its 20-year tradition of providing a family perspective to advocacy, by serving on all DHB/IDS committees dealing with services and/or policy where we are invited. This has included providing support to the DBH Legislative Work Group. On a continuing basis, we also provide policy and advocacy updates to families and family serving agencies, especially at regular Family Resource Network Meetings (FRN). Also, legislative alerts and policy updates are shared with FRN members, DBH staff, and other interested parties in the City and across the Commonwealth on a regular, meeting by meeting, basis.
Read More
Since 1976, JJC provided serval thousands of children and youth programming through an array of in-home, out of home, community and school based services focusing on intervention, prevention, and community based services. JJC is a non-profit, multi-service organization dedicated to the safety and welfare of vulnerablechildren, youth and families in Philadelphia.
Read More
The mission of PMHCC is to improve service and recovery opportunities for persons who are challenged by serious and/or prolonged mental illness, drug and alcohol misuse and/or other barriers to self-sufficiency, in support of those citizens most in need and served by the City of Philadelphia and other counties of Southeast Pennsylvania.
Read More
The conversation doesn’t stop at the end of the virtual event. We look forward to you continuing down this path with us as we strive to address systemic and structural inequities by uncovering neighborhood strategies. Although we are not always able to hear every voice during our virtual events, your voice is important to us. Please share your neighborhood strategies and other thoughts in the comments of this blog post and we’ll be sure to incorporate them into our findings.
Read More
In the span of one week, we went from the city burning to a world lit with the flame for social justice. The streets, once haunted by the empty, charred husks of police K-9 unit vehicles lifeless on Vine and torched in front of City Hall North, replaced by the sea of people pouring in from the one way roads, onto the Ben Franklin Parkway, like streams and rivers making their way to the sea of collective human desire for a better tomorrow.
Read MoreWe are in discussions to host some exciting co-branded virtual events for maximum impact for the community. While we love having fun, we can’t ignore the challenges that many of us are facing as a result of the physical, social, and economic challenges resulting from COVID-19.
Read More
Then I wonder how many other hidden gems, forgotten gifts, and untapped resources I have at my disposal that I never leveraged to achieve my wildest dreams.
Read More
Still, I was reluctant to put a label on my efforts, knowing that if I said that I was setting out to accomplish something that I had never done, the mere awareness that it was never done before would have paralyzed me. It would have been an irresistible invitation for writers block show up and squat down on the couch next me and eat all of my Doritos. So I didn’t.
Read More
telling your story and connecting with others may lead to nothing more than great tasting french fries at World Cafe Live and savory creative nuggets for your imagination to chew on. Or it could lead to a whole new opportunity that you would have never thought to explore otherwise.
Read More