On April 24th, eighteen youth organizers, two junior facilitators, and five staff members from YO S.O.S. traveled to Princeton-Blairstown Center in New Jersey for an overnight retreat that was filled with leadership and team building challenges, a workshop on the importance of self care, and many memorable bonding experiences filled with joyful laughter and cheers […]
CONTINUE READINGLast 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 READINGOn 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 READINGDuring 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 […]
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