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OPEN EDITORIAL/OPEN CALL (On resurrection Sunday) Happy Resurrection Day!!! After the organs have been quieted, the pews have emptied, and the churches have locked their doors, note that this is what welcomes us all to Resurrection 2024. It was disheartening to hear about the shooting incident involving seven teenagers in downtown Indianapolis. This incident highlights the numerous challenges we are facing as a society, and it is not my place to assign blame or propose a single solution. There is no quick fix to the issues we are witnessing across the United States. It cannot be solved by a single church, speech, march, politician, youth program, bill, law, activist, forum, pastor, or pill. The headlines tomorrow will focus on the number of lives affected by bullets, which is ironic on a day when we celebrate the resurrection of our Savior. Nevertheless, this “presenting issue” will be front page news while the real underlying issues will again go unmentioned and unresolved as in the past. It is important to acknowledge that this incident is just the tip of the iceberg. The underlying issues that contribute to such violence often remain unaddressed. In my humble opinion we must make the connection of ALL ADULTS taking responsibility for the well-being of ALL OUR CHILDREN in ALL parts of our city. We need to work together proactively, rather than reactively only when tragedy strikes. Our efforts should extend from our neighborhoods to our statehouse, from pre-K education to higher education, involving churches, parents, politicians, media, marketers, celebrities, teenagers, seniors, and individuals from all walks of life. We must break down the barriers and collaborate collectively. It is time for money, minds, and muscle to join forces and work towards a better future. On this resurrection day, the good news is that the devil tried to kill seven young people but the enemy didn't succeed. All seven survived! Their survival holds significant meaning for them, their families, and our community. Just like Christ, being left for dead does not mark the end of our story. The idea of leaving our children in the tomb should be unacceptable. They deserve to live even if it means their spirits have to be reassurected back to life. We have to believe that tragedy is also an opportunity for us to triumph by coming together and making a change. It is an opportunity to discover our purpose and potential, and to work together to turn this situation around. This is an opportunity to find your purpose, and your personal possibility and turn something in this situation around with all hands on deck. I’m just saying Pastor G https://lnkd.in/gDcv533h

OPEN EDITORIAL/OPEN CALL (On Resurrection Sunday) Happy Resurrection Day!!! After the organs have been quieted, the pews have emptied, and the churches have locked their doors, note that this is what welcomes us all to Resurrection 2024. It was disheartening to hear about the shooting incident involving seven teenagers in downtown Indianapolis. This incident highlights the numerous challenges we are facing as a society, and it is not my place to assign blame or propose a single solution. There is no quick fix to the issues we are witnessing across the United States. It cannot be solved by a single church, speech, march, politician, youth program, bill, law, activist, forum, pastor, or pill. The headlines tomorrow will focus on the number of lives affected by bullets, which is ironic on a day when we celebrate the resurrection of our Savior. Nevertheless, this “presenting issue” will be front page news while the real underlying issues will again go unmentioned and unresolved as in the past. It is important to acknowledge that this incident is just the tip of the iceberg. The underlying issues that contribute to such violence often remain unaddressed. In my humble opinion, we must make the connection of ALL ADULTS taking responsibility for the well-being of ALL OUR CHILDREN in ALL parts of our city. We need to work together proactively rather than reactively only when tragedy strikes. Our efforts should extend from our neighborhoods to our statehouse, from pre-K education to higher education, involving churches, parents, politicians, media, marketers, celebrities, teenagers, seniors, and individuals from all walks of life. We must break down the barriers and collaborate collectively. It is time for money, minds, and muscles to join forces and work towards a better future. On this resurrection day, the good news is that the devil tried to kill seven young people, but the enemy didn't succeed. All seven survived! Their survival holds significant meaning for them, their families, and our community. Just like Christ, being left for dead does not mark the end of our story. The idea of leaving our children in the tomb should be unacceptable. They deserve to live even if it means their spirits have to be reassurected back to life. We have to believe that tragedy is also an opportunity for us to triumph by coming together and making a change. It is an opportunity to discover our purpose and potential and to work together to turn this situation around. This is an opportunity to find your purpose and your personal possibility and turn something in this situation around with all hands on deck. I’m just saying Pastor G https://lnkd.in/g42dQk6f

Watch the co-directors of the Street Action Network Basaime Spate and Javonte Alexander introduce the Street Action Network, a cutting-edge approach to address gun violence. As gun violence survivors and members of street networks, they will combine their experience, along with research, action, and community to change narratives and create change. The goal, as Spate says, "is to give opportunity, educate, and save lives."

Why are parents allowing their children to go downtown at night? What is open for young people at that age to be present and unsupervised by a responsible parent/guardian/adult? Before I become critical of what the city is or is not doing, I must first look at what the parent is or is not doing. Given todays climate, effective parenting is different than what it used to be to be. Real parenting is real hard. There are no shortcuts to success. Hard work has no substitute.

Watch the co-directors of the Street Action Network Basaime Spate and Javonte Alexander introduce the Street Action Network, a cutting-edge approach to address gun violence. As gun violence survivors and members of street networks, they will combine their experience, along with research, action, and community to change narratives and create change. The goal, as Spate says, "is to give opportunity, educate, and save lives." https://lnkd.in/eXZKyXQp

It's not constant bias, double standards, or never-ending incompetence. It's simply a corrupt model, with complete lack of accountability in which you have to be silent after finishing your career to receive financial bonuses. If you watch 2 the same videos including a man and woman and one is allowed, when the other is not, it's exposing misogyny. Same scenario with different skin colours and it's racism. When you apply one law to one team and another one to other, it's corruption and lack of integrity in sport. #SocialAction #ReformFAandPGMOL 🇬🇧😷

Love this! Lawyer friends 2 take-always: 1) citizen juries can decide much more than whether someone is guilty of a crime. 2) How would jury service (especially long-term grand jury service) change if we spent time on relationship building before people deliberated on major decisions?

The reality for so many that you and I will never face. guys like Tree are the heroes who break the odds of being lifelong losers to saving and enriching the most vulnerable. This article highlights the story that never makes any headlines but plays out across this country. The guy who shot him is the kind of person he was trying to help fix. That is why I am so passionate about https://lnkd.in/gNQWsn_X because it deals with root issues at scale. There will never be enough Trees to address all those who are broken with major unresolved hurt and pain and no place to learn. We hace to mass deliver the remedy that is what we do. In 2024 we expect 6 large Stadium evevts to kick off more than 60,000 kids on the program. Come check out how we are helping create emotionally resilient youth across the US.

Survivors and children are at the heart of the work we do. We protect survivors and children by working with perpetrators to bring about behaviour change. It is important to work with the individual who is behaving abusively, or the cycle will continue. If you would like to find out more about our services across Essex and elsewhere, or have concerns regarding a client, please do get in contact. https://lnkd.in/e9tEmTst #Reflect #HighSheriffsAward #Respect #domesticabuse #domesticviolence #TheChangeProject #coercivecontrol #physicalabuse #abuse #sexualabuse #emotionalabuse #cyberabuse #digitalabuse #DATraining #vawg #financialabuse