November 2 marked one full year without a shooting or killing at Weeksville Houses. S.O.S. Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy staff celebrated this milestone with neighbors, participants, and volunteers, offering S.O.S. giveaways to community members and providing snacks and drinks for children at the event. Sixty-four community members attended the celebration, which received local coverage on […]
CONTINUE READINGShauna, a social work intern at Legal Hand and the Crown Heights Mediation Center, sat down to talk about what the Mediation Center has meant to her. Shauna first became connected to the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center by her sorority sister, former Mediation Center employee Hailey. Shauna spent about a year volunteering with […]
CONTINUE READINGGreetings Mediation Center Supporters, The power of recent organizing by youth impacted by mass school shootings is invigorating and heartening, yet we mourn the loss of life that has inspired it. As we genuinely celebrate the much needed politicization and action that is growing out of their protest, we continue advocating for an analysis of […]
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