Hello everyone!

Cynthia Miller-representative from Bible Way Temple Nation

Hello Janae and Cynthia. Thanks for joining.

Please feel free to introduce yourself in the chat.

Pastor Stringer “Bridge North Project Inc” Bible Way Temple Nation

Danielle Warren-Dias, resident of North Hartford and work at CT Children's

Great to see hellos in the chat! Feel free to include your name and org or your neighborhood!

Geethika Fernando-Data & Community Engagement Manager, Hartford Data Collaborative-CT Data

Hello! Liz Buczynski with United Way

Hi Folks. Richard Sugarman from Hartford Promise. Happy to be with you all on this important work.

Patrick McKenna, Swift/Community Solutions

Kevin Borrup, Injury Prevention Center, OCCH, Connecticut Children’s

Hi everyone. Wes Younts from the Center for Social Research, University of Hartford. we are leading the data and evaluation team. happy to see folks again

Stephan Palmer Youth on Fire Inc CEO , 2Gen Parent Consultant for the state of CT ,

Debi Martin, Local Initiatives Support Corp (LISC) Hello Everyone!

Luis Rivera, Community Relations Manager, OCCH, Connecticut Children’s

Angela Harris | Phillips Health Ministry | Phillips Metropolitan CME Church

Marie Jarry, Director of Public Services for Hartford Public Library

Good evening to all. Rick Brush, Wellville

Angela Harris | Phillips Health Ministry | Phillips Metropolitan CME Church | NHPZ NRZ Resident Liaison - Health & Wellness Initiative

JeddaLaRue of K LA RUE Educational Arts in Motion educational, fitness and performance programming klaruedart@yahoo.com

Good Evening Everyone, Sheryal Administrative Analyst, DFCYR Youth Services

Reena Sen-City of Hartford, Department of Families, Children, Youth, and Recreation

Tenaya Taylor - Executive Director at the Nonprofit Accountability Group. Sign up for our community updates newsletter at www.naghartford.org

https://recruiting.adp.com/srccar/public/RTI.home?c=1122041&d=External&r=5000813649406#/

These are the live links to the jobs

https://recruiting.adp.com/srccar/public/RTI.home?c=1122041&d=External&r=5000810555606#/

Good evening everyone glad to be here. I’m Dani Singerman, Advisory Coordinator for The Healthy Hartford Hub & Community Action Task Force dani@hartfordfood.org

Here is the link for the grant narrative. https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-discretionary-grants-support-services/school-choice-improvement-programs/promise-neighborhoods-pn/awards/

How about a Youth Advisory Committee? Maybe one of the hired staff could be tasked to organize a group at the Parker Center or Y on the Ave or The North Boys and Girls club.

Danielle yes! This is a great idea and on the list.

Great

Stephan, YES! We can forsure add caretakers

Great idea. I was going to suggest a parent/guardian advisory committee

How are the large organizations who have already received funding going to support the Northend pipeline?

more to come on the committee, we'd like to have parents and caretakers in all the committees!

Jedda, good question, let's see if we answer that, I think we will, if not, I will point to this in the chat

Good evening! Vicki Gallon-Clark @Blue Hills Civic Association (BHCA).

Thanks all for the great questions and comments! We are keeping track of these to capture.

The chat is rocking!

We need to focus on policing youth. As long as HPD has such a large presence over youth, their families, and in school not much is going to change due to the oppression they face by the carceral system. This budget has to compete with the large police budget that targets black and brown children and this plan lacks justice language.https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-more-cages-wont-make-connecticut-safer-20220214-hpuop23ypfbyzpbcpfsbheobhq-story.htmlSenate Republicans released “A Better Way to a Safer Connecticut,” a plan that would further criminalize our young people, expand the police state and roll back some of the hard-won reforms we urgently need. That is anything but a way to improve public safety, especially for young people who are poor, Black, or Latino — and for their communities.

Can we change the wording form moms to caretakers .. Because it's just not moms raising children alone anymore .. I am a single father raising my son and when grants say single moms . It closes the door on single fathers getting that help from said grant

Thanks Tenaya! This is great info to share.

Social workers taking over mental health calls with police assistance is key.

Agree John! This is really what we need to think about when we look at protective factors for our families.

I agree with Tenaya and Stephan

ust to clarify the pipeline will support all caregivers and their families. The idea is to provide youth and their families all the support necessary to provide opportunity for success.

it depends because social workers have biases and can perpetuating policing as well. Trauma informed care and an abolitionist lens is key because they can play a role in driver youth into more issues

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Yes Tenaya 🙌🏽 👏🏽

Thanks Keren, we are capturing these good comments and are totally on board with caregivers at being critical partners - specifically not just mothers.

Great to see folks gathered this evening. Apologies, I have a previously schedule Black History Month event and will be signing off early. Hopefully the recording and slides will be made available so I can see what I miss. Thanks in advance! Peace and blessings to all!

Tenaya, this is important to call out. We hope to address this as part of our review of the quality improvement part of this work. We have to do our families better. We have places for residents on committees that will look at this. Join us!

Will the marketing for this be geared towards all caregivers and not just single moms

I read Whatever it Takes its a good book about Jeffery Canada to read about what works and didn't. I may have a copy if anyone needs

Recording will be made available Angela. Gina or I will email a link to you also.

Thanks Angela, I know we are up against some stiff competition, we will share the recording for follow up and more meetings of course!

thank you all

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mD1e9HUAiDVUYNdagaXuJ0CHkVTvpa3P/view

How has the Hartford Public Schools proven they are able to speak on what is needed in the Northend of Hartford students? They have a history of over crowded classrooms, antiquated educational materials, and lack of support staff for our special needs children. Extremely limited communication and inclusive relationships with the students parents and direct input from the teachers and staff who actually work with the the students and their families. In the past HPS are constantly changing curriculum based on testing by Corperation that have no educational experience and connection with the community and educators who serve our children.

The link is there, we will also have it on the slides coming up.

Jedda, thanks for these excellent and thoughtful comments, Agreed that communications are not sufficient at MANY levels for easy and effective communication to families to get the supports they need for their families. We hope to take a close look at this as part of the work. Would love to have folks join us in thinking about this.

I don't see Parker Memorial in the budget .. please explain when it's the main family center in the promise zone

Other good questions re HPS, We bring these back to and discuss with them. And, bring back to the group.

Stephan, we see you.

We will see Parker. It is a MAIN focus of this work.

We see you Tenaya!

That is true

It's also that the funding goes to the City of Hartford, which owns and operates the center.

These are great points. I think we need to address this in the pipeline and need to be lifted up.

FYI... Catholic Charities is providing services and housed at Parker Memorial Community Center. Parker Memorial CC, the building is a City of Hartford entity which provides DFCYR programming. That might be part of the confusion here. Catholic Charities could be a funded CBO through this DOE grant to expand their work, to touch more families.

Good night all!

In 2020, the City announced a plan to create a civilian crisis response team to respond to certain calls for service in place of police and identified $5 million over four years to fund the design and implementation of the crisis response team. In early March, Mayor Bronin is hosting a virtual town hall to share an overview of our new response team. I'll share event info with town hall details next week.

In response to the Community Response Team,

I will add that to the chat

in a moment

That first line is very problematic

“High-quality” who determines what high quality is?

Community

Through conversation we will define "high quality"

The “Trusted” language is problematic. High quality involves metrics. I believe in proving your work. But, trusted is ambiguous and involves culturally bound assumptions

Noted

Thank you, John. Noted.

Great input - also this is a draft not even close to the final product

Also, high quality organizations won’t benefit from capacity building. Identifying organizations that need capacity building will involve mentoring the willing.

Grass Root programs that have been doing the work as well shouldn't be overlooked

Hartford already has a Boots on the Ground Team at HARTFORD COMMUNITY THAT CARES. HCTC responds to families traumatized by Violence. They also have a Youth Program that addresses building skills and a host of other resources for our Youths in the City of Hartford. HCTC can be a great asset so that we are not creating or duplicating services needed..

Thank you, Darlene.

I understand metrics and most folks who work in the nonprofit sector know this but the wording implies that smaller grassroots orgs aren’t “high-quality”. I’m simply saying that the wording is problematic.

I agree Stephan

Thank you, Keren. Understood.

Yes Darlene. There are a vast number of boots on the ground orgs in the Northend and it’s important that those who have been on the frontlines get the funding and services they need so they can support more families and individuals

https://www.communityfirstcoalition.com/

Hartford Board of Education has removed many of the schools on the Northend what is going to be down to reestablished our neighborhood school

Thanks John-we agree. The used of "trusted" was intended to reference organizations that command the trust of the community/residents and we are hopeful of capturing the views of the community through a variety of strategies. I would suggest that high quality is based on a program being evidence-based and supported by data that demonstrates effectiveness. Do you agree?

great comments! We need to think critically about all of these important concepts!

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Hello everyone... glad to be able to join you all tonight! Pastor Corey James, Liberty Christian Center International

I agree Dr. Dworkin. Just that “trusted” is not a norm for this neighborhood. You are working with a lack of trust on both sides. So, it could be perceived as exclusionary.

How can we most appropriately share the budget with the community?Which grass-roots CBOs are best suited to support resident and community engagement activities?How can we identify and recruit community members to serve on the governance structure of the NHAP?

Corey James cjames@libertyisonline.com

Apologize that I have to sign off at 7:30. Great meeting tonight. Glad to be part of it.

these notes are from the report out. meeting parents whre they are

Gina, is the Ebony Horsewomen org a partner? They do great Equine Therapy

True John^^

In response to Darlene - Yes, the city is currently working with HCTC and our three hospitals on a new partnership to respond to the needs of youth and adults who are victims of violence. The Crisis Response Team that I mentioned will consist of social workers who will respond to 911 calls for youth and adults experiencing emotional distress that maybe be caused by different things including unmet mental health needs, addiction and homelessness

Ebony is great! We will certainly engage them

Good Job representing, Luis

Thank you!

great great meeting my apologies I have to go, look forward to continuing being involved in this project!

Hot 93.7 might still do the show on Sunday mornings where they do a whole segment on these types of efforts. People could call in I believe.

Conversation versus blurb, though PSA’s work as well

Lol yes you said my name right. Thank you 🙏🏽

Finally! I did some thing right!

CONTACT:Gina Federico, United Way of Central and Northeastern ConnecticutGfederico@unitedwayinc.orgnhap@connecticutchildrens.orgPhone: 860-493-1115Mobile/Text: 617-922-1477

Next Meeting: Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6PM

Yes Cynthia!

nhap@connecticutchildrens.org

can you send out a google invite to both of these meeting please

golds001@hartford.gov

yes! We will send out a "flyer" and an Outlook invite that you can add to your Google calendar.

Awesome

Thank you Sheryal!

JeddaLaRue of K LA RUE Educational Arts in Motion (860) 983-4580 Klaruedart@yahoo.com

Thank you

I need to no run a group and assign groups, I totally messed that up

Mrs. Nixon!!!

Thinking about triaging folks who may need more support. Like Stephan Palmer. and Jedda. Both great comments.