While attending the Community Board meeting that focused on youth and education, the community was able to express their concerns with local programs and educational issues in a receptive forum. The topic of education was not limited to just schooling, as discussions involving youth leadership program updates, LGBT needs, and family workshops took place as well. The leadership program being discussed provided jobs to youth and included teachers and parents in improving the physical environment of East Harlem. The community members present thought it was important to let the youth who were involved in the program be given the chance to choose their own projects. The discussion about the status of the educational facilities proved that the education
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The educational facilities need to be improved in order to meet the needs of the students so they could have a chance at a future which doesn’t involve crime. LGBT issues were discussed in order to make a more accepting community, which would promote more inclusion. Family dynamic workshops were discussed as well because the community sees how unhealthy home lives have lead to negative health outcomes.
Raquan is an eighteen year old black male from East Harlem who was featured on the Every Day Incarceration Instagram page. His hopes for the future of East Harlem is that he “just want younger kids growing up around different challenges and different things that I’m going through still to this day, to learn how to move around it. Learn how to not become another statistic.”15 It is important to teach these children how to move around the challenges that Raquan talks about because East Harlem’s future crime rate will be dictated by how successful future community educational programs are. Dante, who also lives in Harlem, describes the community’s perception on consequences associated with safety in East Harlem. “Public transportation, that is one place that I really don’t feel safe at. You never know who you are going to run into. Everybody takes public
The educational facilities need to be improved in order to meet the needs of the students so they could have a chance at a future which doesn’t involve crime. LGBT issues were discussed in order to make a more accepting community, which would promote more inclusion. Family dynamic workshops were discussed as well because the community sees how unhealthy home lives have lead to negative health outcomes.
Raquan is an eighteen year old black male from East Harlem who was featured on the Every Day Incarceration Instagram page. His hopes for the future of East Harlem is that he “just want younger kids growing up around different challenges and different things that I’m going through still to this day, to learn how to move around it. Learn how to not become another statistic.”15 It is important to teach these children how to move around the challenges that Raquan talks about because East Harlem’s future crime rate will be dictated by how successful future community educational programs are. Dante, who also lives in Harlem, describes the community’s perception on consequences associated with safety in East Harlem. “Public transportation, that is one place that I really don’t feel safe at. You never know who you are going to run into. Everybody takes public