Kaimen Provides a Summary of Recent Community Safety Forum

  

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A community forum on safety was convened on Sunday, June 6, 2010 at The Mazer Theater at The Educational Alliance in New York City.  The forum, held exactly one month after the library incident, was created as a response to the sexual assault of a 9 year old girl in the local public library. 

Over 30 different organizations camegathered to talk about ways to prevent and address crimes like these.  

The team at Kaimen helped to identify, contact, email, and/or call the groups and corporate entities to issue this announcement. It also recruited organizations and companies to support and/or sponsor this forum.  Kaimen also developed a press alert and media list which include outlets which wrote about the library incident.

The Lo Down NY, an award-winning community blog, wrote an article before the event and also listed the event on its Facebook events page. Working closely with Seward Park Co-op and the 7th Precinct Community Council, Kaimen invited local and congressional officials.  Many thanks to the presence and participation of:

• U.S. Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez. Video. 
• NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Video.
• NYS Senator Daniel Squadron. Video.
• Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Video.
• NYC Councilmember Margaret Chin. Video.
• New York Public Library Public Relations Director Angela Montefinise. Video.
• Asher Novek from the Office of NYC Comptroller John Liu.

The Forum also featured presentations and remarks made by representatives such as Rabbi Leonard Blank (the Director of Pastoral Services for the Bialystoker Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation,  Executive Director of the Lower Manhattan Health Care Coalition and a representative from the United Jewish Council of East Side), as well as representatives from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (video), Project Envision, Lower East Side Coalition which is part of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault and from MenCanStopRape (video). Please visit here to watch videos taken from the forum. Special thanks to Antony Wong for the videos.

Kaimen created a Twitter hashtag for the forum: #LESFORUM and then actively worked with the following groups to market the June 6 event publicly through Twitter and blog posts:

• City.com (@citydotcomny)
• Paradigm Shift (@PShiftNYC)
• MenCanStopRape (@mencanstoprape)
• The Educational Alliance (@EdAlliance_
• New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault
• The Line Campaign (@thelinecampaign)
• National Organization for Women - NY State (@NOWYoungFems)
• DNAinfo 

For more information, please visit these sites to read or view the media coverage:

• The Lo Down NY June 7, 2010
• The Downtown Express  June 11 - 17, 2010 issue
• NTDTV Broadcast June 6, 2010
• Sing Tao Daily

The event also helped to generate media interest in "Project Envision" which was created by New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault.  An article about Project Envision was published in Downtown Express. 

Photos from the forum can be found here.

Videos from the forum can be found here.