Maywood-Bellwood LAC Meeting

Thursday, May 12, 2022

11:00am to 1:00pm

via Zoom

Agenda:

  1. Roll call
  2. Review and Approve Previous Meeting Minutes
  3. Appoint LAC Lead Contact
  4. Determine Schedule for Summer Meetings
  5. Discuss and Complete Summer Recommendations Exercise

  1. Roll Call

    1. Present
      1. Lorenzo Webber
      2. Andre Harvey
      3. Jasmine Lopez
      4. Vladimir Talley
      5. John Harrell (joined later in the meeting)
    2. Absent
      1. Tim Curry

  2. Review and approval of previous minutes

    • motion to approve was made by member Lorenzo Webber seconded by member Vladimir Talley
    • Roll call for approval of previous minutes
      1. Lorenzo Webber
      2. Andre Harvey
      3. Jasmine Lopez
      4. Vladimir Talley

  3. Appoint LAC Lead Contact

    • Mayor Andre Harvey volunteered for the role

  4. Schedule for Summer Meetings

    • the group agreed to do their regular meeting every second Wednesday of the month at 11am via zoom to start in June; member Lorenzo Webber will provide the zoom invite

  5. Summer Recommendations Exercise

Summer Strategies Recommendations

Strategies most needed to interrupt and prevent firearm violence in your community (each LAC were given the option to choose at most 4 for each category):

  1. Direct Violence Prevention Funding:
    1. Violence Prevention
    2. Youth Development
    3. Trauma Informed Mental or Behavioral Health Services
    4. High Risk Youth Interventions
  2. Social Determinant Investments:
    1. Financial Stability and Mobility
    2. Addressing Racism and Historical Disinvestment in Communities of Color
    3. Family Violence Prevention
    4. Reentry Supports
  3. Activities:
    1. Group Violence Intervention
    2. Collaboration Between Community and Law Enforcement
    3. Events/Activities to Foster Community Cohesion
    4. Engage in Partnerships with Medical Providers
Qualitative Questions
  1. Who needs to be prioritized for violence prevention programming?
    • Kids - reach out to Loyola University and other organizations who have done research on violence prevention and get access on data sets such as gun statistics and ranges, survival rate; and have a better idea of the suburbs and the big city
  2. Where should violence prevention programming be focused (specific blocks, census tracks, neighborhoods)?
    • Block by block; neighborhood by neighborhood; tap every means of connecting with communities
  3. What best practice interventions are you aware of that are meeting the needs of the community?
    • "Feed Me then You Can Lead Me"
  4. What else is needed in your community to address firearm violence in your community, including funding and activities not described above?
    1. More funding to the school system to teach awareness on gun violence
    2. Capacity - lots of organizations but no capacity to keep up with requirements of funding; real training for those organizations, building capacity to meet the requirements to continue the funding; training on reporting
    3. Community education on what is being currently done in the community - build community education in the approach that will be used on this program