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Recent News
The New York Academy of Medicine and the Drug Policy Alliance will be holding a Community Consultation on Drug Policy - Brooklyn on June 29, 6-8 p.m. at St. Francis College (Room: Founders Hall) 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. This consultation is part of a series that will be held throughout the city and state to hear directly from community leaders, members and service providers on issues of drug policies and their impacts. These consultations will be used to inform a Blueprint to a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy, which will be the foundation for the organization’s advocacy and legislative agenda around drug policy at the city and state level. Later this summer the alliance will be hosting consultations in Manhattan, Bronx and Queens. Click here for more information.
The Role of Service in Remaking American Education in New York City is scheduled for Wednesday, June 30 from 10:30am - 12:00pm in the Grand Ballroom East & West at the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas. The high-energy forum will feature a keynote speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on how service partnerships between community-based organizations and schools can foster education reform and achieve greater results for children. Secretary Duncan will then join a panel discussion along with:
- Stephanie Banchero, Education Reporter, Wall Street Journal (panel moderator)
- Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
- Ronjanett Taylor, Director, America Reads Mississippi
- Anthony Salcito, VP of Worldwide Education, Microsoft
The event is part of the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, the world’s largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the nonprofit, government and corporate sectors.
Uth Turn’s Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason will be attending the 2010 Capitol Hill Summit of Faith-Based Leaders in Washington, D.C., on July 13. The event is U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s first faith-based summit of faith leaders representing African-American communities across New York. Click here for more information.
A group of five visitors from the Democratic Republic of Georgia, who are in the United States on a program regarding juvenile justice in the United States, visited Uth Turn on Friday, June 25 to learn about Uth Turn’s programs and initiatives. Click here to see how impressed they were with how the Uth Turn program impacts young lives.
Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason was part of a panel on The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Re-Entry. This panel was part of a larger forum entitled Re-Tooling Re-Entry: Building a Comprehensive Understanding of Programs and Services for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families. The event took place at the New York Academy of Medicine on June 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The faith-based panel was scheduled from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information, click here.
Youth, providers, community members and advocates came together on March 24 to rally outside of Governor Paterson’s New York City office in protest of the proposed budget cuts to critical youth programs, including Uth-Turn. “We rally today for the future of thousands of young people in New York. We appeal to the Governor and the New York State Senate and Assembly to do a cost/benefit analysis and restore these budget cuts,” said Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason. (For more details, see the press release. To see the rally, view the video.)
Strategic Consulting 3 (New York) has formed a faith-based partnership among Fund for Community Leadership Inc., Fund for the City of New York, New York Theological Seminary and New York City Administration for Children’s Services. The partnership aims to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, teens and their families in the foster care system. The partnership is a collaborative effort led by prominent Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason, Fund for Community Leadership, and Reverend Alfonso Wyatt, Fund for the City of New York. For more information, download the announcement.
Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason, CEO of Uth Turn, was recently appointed to the transition team for Manhattan District Attorney-elect Cy Vance, where he will be serving on the Community-Based Justice Committee. The transition team will advise Vance on a broad range of criminal justice issues affecting the work of the District Attorney’s Office. Areas of focus include creating a community-based justice model, developing new crime prevention strategies, expanding the fight against domestic violence, protecting workers and tenants, reforming the criminal courts and creating a prosecution integrity panel that will help prevent wrongful convictions, among others. For more information, visit www.cyvanceforda.com.
Last Year's Events
Selected Highlights and Accomplishments
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