ROOT (Reaching Out to Others Together), Inc.

 

 

MAYOR-ELECT ADRIAN FENTY TO JOIN ANACOSTIA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH REHABILITATIVE SERVICES (DYRS) YOUTH AT FORUM “BY THE YOUTH FOR THE YOUTH ABOUT THE YOUTH”

 

MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2006

 

 

WHAT:           ROOT, Inc, in partnership with WPFW Radio, WPGC Radio the Emergency Management Agency, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Family and Elders, Psychological Assessment Services (PAS), US Trans, and AMERIGROUP will host a Youth Forum at Anacostia Senior High School. Anacostia students and youth from the Department of Youth Rehabilitative Services (DYRS) will voice their collective opinions and seek solutions on the following issues addressed to a panel of senior officials of the District of Columbia government: gun violence within the community; increased youth violence; school violence; and emergency preparedness. 

 

                        This activity is being sponsored in part by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families, and Elders for the purpose of aiding the DC Youth Development Strategy, in collaboration with policies being implemented under incoming Council Chair Vincent Gray.

 

 

WHY:              The first mayoral debate in 2006 was held at UDC in January of last year.  Anacostia students, along with high school students throughout the city, participated in a mock election at the end of the debate, voted and overwhelmingly elected the Honorable Adrian Fenty as the next Mayor of the city along with The Honorable Vincent Gray as the new DC City Council Chair.  The youth now would like them and others in authority to attend and address their concerns and assist them in finding solutions to the problems that they reveal about their school and communities.

 

                        With the outbreak of gun violence in Carver Terrace and the Langston Community, students are extremely concerned about their safety, preventing similar occurrences in the Anacostia community and wish their concerns addressed in a public forum.

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WHO:             ROOT, Inc.; Department of Youth Rehabilitative Services (DYRS); Anacostia High School students; AMERIGROUP; The Emergency Management Agency; the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Family and Elders; Mayor-Elect Adrian Fenty; DC City Council Chairman-Elect Vincent C. Gray; Councilmember Marion Barry; Councilmember-Elect Harry Thomas; Councilmember Kwame Brown; Councilmember Phil Mendelson; newly appointed City Administrator Dan Tanglerlini; DC Board of Education President-Elect Robert Bobb; Superintendent and Chief School Officer Clifford Janey; Chief of Police-Elect Cathy Lanier; Ward 8 School board representative William Lockridge; Ward 8B Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners; other distinguished DC government agency directors, and staff from Howard University. Special VIP guests include Joel Segal, senior level Congressional staffer, United States Congress,  and other senior level Congressional staff members.

 

WHEN:           Monday, December 11, 2006 from 6pm-9pm.

 

WHERE:         Anacostia High School Auditorium

                        16th & R St, SE

                        Washington, DC  

 

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02-10-2006 - Make Gun Violence Prevention a Priority : Senator Carl Levin: News Release

http://www.senate.gov/~levin/newsroom/release.cfm?id=25145

 

PRESS INFO:   Priscilla at (pclarkepr@aol) Clarke & Associates, LLC, Tel. 202-723-2200 or visit www.clarkepr.com

 

 

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