Well, maybe not. Mhmm. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for, coming to our monthly meeting on the commission on the, pathways ending, gun violence.
Councilor Miguel Sanchez? Present. Corey Jones, culture?
Diana Garlington, culture?
Cathedral Monacarth? Allen Williams. Not present. Detective David Perez. Not present.
Michael Stevens. Not present. Robert Bailey. James Montero. Lisa Pina Warren is not present at the moment.
Juan Carter is not present. Michael Hogan, not present. And PJ Fox. Present. And we have seven present, six absent.
Thank you so much. Thank you all for for being here today. I know we have very busy schedules, so we gotta continue with the very important work. I usually kinda like to, you know, just give a few minutes to talk to our police department to give us updates on what's kind of what's going on with city. But if you don't have anyone, we'll skip over that part today.
Just going off of my feelings, I guess, and my awareness of what's going on in the community. It's been I don't wanna say it's been quiet, but it's definitely been a little slower in terms of activities. And so last time we met, we were coming off, a pretty hot weekend, there, at the end of the summer. So it's not gonna work. So we keep heading in a positive direction.
So going back to the agenda, item number two is the mentorship program that we talk about as being a possibility, Kennedy Plaza. We're all aware of, some of the challenges, that sometimes arise at Kennedy Plaza. So we had talked about possibly, either facilitating or or at least discussing on what, a mentorship program would look like. Before I hand it off to Corey to kinda touch base on that, does anyone have any comments they would like to make regarding this item? We have discussion after Corey's.
Do you have a presentation or just a
No. Just, just remarks. So as you all see, you have, the mentorship application draft that I've put together. If everyone want to take a look at it and see if there's anything that, you know, could be missing. And, you know, I think kind of the next steps is we talked about doing social media, and that could be a good avenue for publicizing this or even just using the council social media and then publicizing it.
And then I think also, like, finding a community based organization to kinda lead it. I'm assuming we're not gonna need a ton of money, but even if we could have, you know, CBO that has, like, one coordinator or something, and we can try to work together to secure some dollars to make that happen. You know, thinking Mike Hogan and PSGAL could maybe come up with $2,040,000 dollars, right, to try to do something like this. And then lastly, I think really just thinking about how we can incorporate CVI in this and, you know, make it connected to kind of our larger vision. I know, you know, me and James were working on a CVI program and, you know, kind of funds got dried up at DLT while they're still committed to this work.
You know, I think we'll we'll have to start with PSGUEO and and kinda scale up. So, yeah, any thoughts on what could be added? Any thoughts on how we can connect this work, to greater CVI work and kinda use it as a way to kinda build up?
Yeah. I think before we continue, Corey, we I think we need to establish, what our role, if any, is.
I'd say advisory. In in this type of program. Recruitment. Right? I don't think you know, we we are a CBO.
We aren't right. But if we can support a CBO, if we could try to facilitate those funds and advertise and support, I mean, like
Just for everyone's aware, CBO is a community based organization. Right? Correct. Thank you.
My understanding, the Nonviolence Institute has similar programs. Yeah. Is there a way for us to maybe leverage funding that they already have or infrastructure that they have to maybe even pilot it rather than, like Right. Having to sort of create our own program or even just elevating the program that they have, and also even, an application of the period, what they request from their mom's.
know how those two sort of match and maybe get fixed up for
Yeah. I think that's a good idea. I'm going to share a different role on replicating stuff that's already out there. Lisa, the executive director of the office did inform me that she wasn't gonna be able to make it. So Okay.
I'm not sure if, you have more knowledge of of their current
I know they do have mentors. I know James has mentors. I know PJ, you know, mentorship RI. Right? So, I think there's a lot of different CBOs that could step up to the point.
I think we have to, you know, ask ourselves, right, what's capacity, you know, kind of where is the strengths and weaknesses. Right, and try to, like, pick lanes where that fit in people's strengths, and, you know, create a collaborative approach. Right? So I think there's there's a many CBOs that can do the work, but the question is who is ready at this moment and has the capacity at this time.
Melissa, Brent, of Bell, and Mentor, Rhode Island. Multiple organizations were appointed, included, nonviolent included, but it's all based on mentoring, and maybe, something can be used to support that work, expand it opposed to just starting from scratch and creating something.
man. There's a particular zone, that the added into the social work that is always happening within the agency.
I mean, I would definitely engage with Mentor Rhode Island just to get I mean, they have the mentoring infrastructure, and they have a really large recruiting apparatus that they could probably utilize. Yeah. So
I do think that's a good idea. Right? Maybe it's all of us. Right? But we break it down by zones because, you know, Kennedy Plaza might be a hot area, but there's a lot of other areas Mhmm.
And ways that we can kind of integrate mentorship into this population.
And I think also and that's sort of bringing back. I think there's a
math on the program to, yeah, organization, archiving in Providence. And then I think from our past meeting with things like that
That was not included in some of those funding in those funded programs. And so maybe and it seems like it's an area that does do they need a mentoring program, and and this should increase sort of infrastructure and support. And maybe if this could want it to happen, but I'm sure.
That's why I said maybe that can be added to the majority have the. Although the patient's doing no care, probably add to that by including any replies on me, puts more resources, and that's included in everybody's work. Yes.
I think it would probably make sense to have a conversation with Ventura and maybe possibly even bringing them in to Yeah. Discuss, their scope of work, to the full committee. Because, yeah, I think, like, something else that we need to be very clear on is, regarding the challenges I can't even pause, what we're speaking about is, like, specific to, like, the youth there. Yeah. And, like, the challenges, like, specific to the youth.
There's a lot of other hardships, challenges that can cause that I don't think are gonna be, addressed that shouldn't be, misrepresented as gonna be addressed by this type of program. Just making it as honest and clear, to the public from the start of things for it. We'll probably keep working on on this
item. And this sorry. And this is just remind me. This is to have mentoring at n k NKP.
During the bus. During the bus.
So when we say mentoring, are we saying in, like, folks that are just down there as positive adults that are
