Greensboro officials are inviting teenagers and young adults to help shape the city’s approach to public safety and violence prevention during a Youth Town Hall scheduled for Wednesday, June 24.
The event will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Nussbaum Room at the Central Library at 219 N. Church St.
According to City of Greensboro leaders, the town hall is designed to give young people a chance to discuss issues affecting them and offer ideas for improving safety in the community.
“This event provides a safe space for youth across Greensboro to speak about issues that are important to them and share ideas for positive change, particularly around safety and violence prevention,” Community Safety Department Youth Engagement Director Jeremiah Jett said in a public statement.
Jett, who will facilitate the event, said the gathering will also allow teens and young adults to share their views directly with City leaders and community members.
The youth-led event will include open discussions on issues affecting young people, conversations about violence prevention strategies, opportunities to exchange ideas and solutions, and information about the ways in which youth can become involved in leadership roles and community initiatives.
The event is open to Greensboro residents ages 14 through 22.
The Youth Town Hall is being organized by the city’s Community Safety Department, which was created to address public safety issues through prevention efforts and intervention programs rather than relying solely on traditional law enforcement responses.
According to the city, the department works through community-based prevention initiatives, crisis intervention services aimed at de-escalating violence, and long-term case management for people dealing with challenges such as mental health issues, substance abuse and homelessness that frequently bring them into contact with law enforcement.
City officials said that they hope the town hall will provide insight into the concerns and priorities of Greensboro’s younger residents while giving them a direct voice in conversations about public safety.
With all the numerous silly department names Greensboro has dreamed up, is this article really to be taken seriously? Sounds like another fox guarding the hen house idea only Greensboro can imagine.
Good luck with that one
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– “Community Safety Department Youth Engagement Director”… from the City’s Community Safety Department.
Is this a joke?
Led by the social media poser 18 year old Jerimiah Jett.
In his own words: “Community violence isn’t about criminals, it’s about people,” Jett said. “Sometimes people using violence are afraid. Sometimes they need someone to talk to. Sometimes they need someone to confide in. If I can be that person who can stop that cycle before it begins, then I’m doing my job. I can be in the high schools, middle schools, and even colleges talking to the young adults and give them options other than violence.”
You can’t make this stuff up…
Soon to be lauded as an important voice for disenfranchised black youth.
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What jaw-dropping vacuity. Is this guy getting paid for these sophomoric sentiments?
another mlk impersonator ? they’re in ‘training’ ?
You can’t be everything to everybody… that’s what family is for.
Solution? “Camp”, prosecution, and/or jail.
Greensboro City Overlords,
Which one of you bought how many vote by creating this additional drain on City resources, like the serfs in GSO can afford it.
Another “very essential” city department that is too dumb to enact their own initiatives, so they had to resort to asking teenagers for ideas. That’s your tax dollars at work folks. O.M.G. So dumb.
Over the years there have been many townhall meetings, groups committed to stop community violence, and tax- exempt nonprofits allegedly operated to address violence committed by Black youth. Since these groups or initiatives still exist after many years of trying, the logical conclusion is:
*The efforts are a waste of resources, and another method needs to be tried.
*The fundamental problem has not been acknowledged and addressed.
*What exists in the Black community that cultivates Black youth violence? No blaming others; no blaming discrimination; simply no blaming; just a clear, genuine, sincere examination of the cause regardless of the conclusion.
It is trite to quote Einstein’s definition of insanity. However, it seems to fit here. Blacks are good talkers, that’s why there are many noted preachers. However, there comes a time when taking no longer gets the desired results and more effective means need to be tried. Beginning with personal responsibility.
The town hall is being held to reduce violence by people of any race.
Yes, but appears to me to be directed at Black youth, hence Jeremiah Jett. Like Whites can use the Taj Mahal.
Scott
But be that as it may, Mr. Jett is the Vice President of the local NAACP Youth Chapter and is an employee of the COG’s Community Safety Department. Which in one aspect is perfectly acceptable as Black males in Greensboro commit a disproportionate amount of the violent crime in Greensboro. That is backed up by the Community Safety’s own statistics.
That aside the issue as I see it is that none of the word salad associated with these types of initiatives address one of the most glaring issues facing the community… the unsocialized youth that come from single parent families and hip hop culture that glorifies violence, misogyny and gangster lifestyles. Until that changes, the violence issue will continue to haunt our communities.
Teenagers on a forum probably won’t come to that conclusion.
Personal accountability is not a hallmark of youth of any race. Parents should teach that.
I scratch my head when I hear lack of economic opportunities as a reason for violence. There is a national shortage of trades related jobs that pay very well. GTCC has a fantastic program for preparing anyone for these careers…
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You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
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Actually, anyone can be a good (bull-s&*t) talker. Many are in politics.
i am evidence
You left your shell casings on the floor. Better dump your piece @Skip-the-Hyp’s joint.
Community Safety Department Youth Engagement Director
Yeah, even with my more liberal mindset, I got nothing for how this role adds any real measurable impact to the community. Sounds ripe for place to start cutting costs to me.
When I was a child and I did something wrong either my mother or my father whipped my butt. I didn.t do that misdeed again. I am now an old man and have had one speeding ticket in my life. I realize that butt whippings don’t work for everybody but, by gum it worked for me.
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When I was raised in South Wales and West Yorkshire, economic deprivation was not considered a legitimate excuse for criminality…. “by gum”.
Are you a Yorkshire lad, PACLOC? That’s a very Yorkshire phrase. I grew up in Leeds.
Mom would go outside to find a big switch. She would strip the leaves as she came in to let me have a taste. I would hide under the bed, but she convinced me to come out now or it would be much worse later.
i used the ‘carrot’ successfully sans violence – how i was ‘raised’.
iHell Miller, we had to go get our on switch and God help us if we tried to get a puny one. Today that would be child abuse. What a sad world we live in.
the english royalty used a ‘whipping boy’ whose cries of pain might disuade the royal urchin from doing ‘it’ again
BY GUM Austin, it’s in me blood.
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Aye… ‘appen so, PACLOC. I’m West Riding, but reckon ah prefer t’ North Riding. Tha knows what them folk say oop there, does’t thou?
– – “Don’t talk to me about sophistication – ah’ve bin to Leeds!”
Yorkshire folk are… special. I owe you a pint of Tetley’s. ( not John Smith’s – I’m a Leeds lad, remember).