The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council
Crown Heights Community Mediation Center will be hosting a Mobile Mammography Scan Van on January 23, 2013 at 256 Kingston Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y. from 8am to 5pm, providing free mammograms for women 40 years and older that haven't had one in the last year. Uninsured women are also welcome.
An appointment is necessary. Please call: 1-800-564-6868.
The PS 9 Parent/Teacher Organization (PTO) today announced that the Park Place/Underhill Avenue Block Association has provided a grant of $4,000 toward PS 9’s 2012 Holiday Fundraising Challenge. The school’s fundraising effort this year has targeted residents of Prospect Heights outside of the PS 9 parent community with the slogan, “Invest in Prospect Heights.” The Block Association’s grant is a significant boost to the fundraising campaign which has raised more than $10,000 so far.
On Tuesday, November 27—billed this year as "Giving Tuesday" after Black Friday and Cyber Monday—the PS 9 Parent-Teacher Organization kicked off its 2012 Holiday Fundraising Challenge. In addition to seeking new donors from within the school community, the PTO is addressing the larger Prospect Heights community with the slogan, "Invest in Prospect Heights.
The Health and Harvest Fair is a fun, family-oriented event that will provide good food, medical screenings, and healthy living resources to our neighbors. There will be health screenings, local health practitioners, and resources to help you find healthy affordable food in your neighborhood. There will be FREE food giveaways, FREE massages, cooking demos, martial arts and yoga, live music, and children's games and activities. This a great opportunity for you to get to know your neighbors and meet local businesses and organizations committed to improving your health!
Please contact Jesse Alter at healthandharvestfair@gmail.com if you would like to help with outreach and invite your neighbors!
Please contact Alison Conforti at alison.conforti@gmail.com if you would like to participate as a health service provider and table at the Fair!
Community Board 8 represents North Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Weeksville.
Agenda:
Please note: The order of agenda items are subject to change.
Despite expressions of concern by community groups, repeated requests and a series of meetings, no documentation has been provided by the Department of Education (DOE) about a proposal to site two Alternative Learning Centers (ALCs) for suspended high school students in that building. We worry about the inadequacies of the facility, the punitive rather than educative tone of security procedures and the need for accountability to members of Community Board 8 Education Committee, District 13 Community Education Council and the Park Place Underhill Avenue Block Association and neighbors.
The DOE will need to provide handicapped accessibility, to mitigate regular flooding during heavy rains and to provide enough space for instruction and the amenities necessary for a healthy learning environment – cafeteria, science lab, library and adequate classroom space. We are asking to see the ‘footprint’ of the building, exact measurements of each room, as well as the schemata of how the rooms will be used. Accountability runs in various directions.
Research published by the NYCLU concludes that programs should include restorative justice, conflict resolution and mediation training for the young people so they return with a skill set that offers them alternative behaviors to those which contributed to the problems for which they have been excluded from regular assigned schools.
Speak out/meeting immediately following the press conference at Duryea Church, entrance on Sterling Place near Underhill, from 7 to 8:30pm. Share experiences, information and suggestions for continued organizing. Comments, questions and concerns of from 3 to 5 minutes will be invited from each participant.
