August 18, 2011
Milwaukee Professionals Association Launched Innovation RISK STRATEGY SESSIONS for youth-teens-young adults in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE, WI –Thursday, August 18, 2011, Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association, announced the NEW addition of All Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative. It is the Safety Matters Response Network/SMRN. It is Leadership, Not Abandonment.
The Safety Matters Response Network is an outgrowth of strategic planning around the recent “protests/revolts-in-violence” seen in the City of Milwaukee. It is a city-wide collaborative.
The Safety Matters Response Network calls for a core team consisting of youth-teen-young adult leaders in the City of Milwaukee working with a sponsor group. The sponsor groups are identified as:
-- a neighborhood block club
-- a neighborhood association
-- a church organization
-- a school, or
-- an organization that receive government funding on behalf of Milwaukeeans.
Baseline requirements of a SPONSOR is to ensure that there is neighborhood-level outreach, in-house education and training for the youth-teen-young adult representative, facilitating meetings, built-in chaperones, marketing, assisted fundraising (per decision of SMRN), encouragement and engagement of principled-center leadership AND collaboration for Annual Diversity Conference.
The youth-teen-young adult and their organization sponsor will make-up Milwaukee’s Safety Matters First Responders Team. They will call upon residential, commercial, social and governmental stakeholders for a holistic safety prevention and intervention engagement.
It is important to note that there must be a partnership between the youth-teen-young adult SMRN representatives and one of the five sources (block club, neighborhood association, church organization, school or an organization receiving funding on behalf of Milwaukee). We know that some will overlap. It is the youth-teen-young adult leadership that will guide and make collective decisions for SMRN. Therefore, it is important that the sponsor is engaged as an adult-partner-sponsor.
We expect the organization to take a “leadership role” in seeing that they have a representative (youth-teen-young adult) at the table representing them. We expect youth-teen-young adult to contact organization and ask to be sponsored.
SMRN organizations are asked to provide youth-teen-young adult representatives that they are “grooming” for citizenship to have hands-on in the strategy building, discussion, training, competition and outreach. They will need to provide MPA a resume.
The NEW Safety Matters Response Network/SMRN is to bring a NEW approach for more FORESIGHT and COLLECTIVE ACTION to address reality issues affecting day-to-day positive growth in neighborhoods of Milwaukee. It includes: Code of Conduct, Civility, TRUST, education and technology attainment, quality of life, economic development, Enduring Concentrated Poverty, health, wellness, transparency, and customer care through principled-centered leadership that calls for All Hands on Deck problem solving; and, safety prevention guided by infrastructural intervention engagement.
First Responders Team - SMRN
We will create a platform for building TRUST, open-communication and problem solving through respect of other cultures and differences, planning, commitment, buy-in, paradigm shifts and successes from identifying in proactive ways, strengths, threats, opportunities, and challenges for mitigating risks in negative behaviors – ALL Milwaukeeans and those they trust to conduct their neighborhood welfare.
Since we know that there are a myriad of youth-focused organization that are serving the City of Milwaukee fifteen (15) districts, we will call upon neighborhood-level, state and national organizations that receive government funding on behalf of Milwaukeeans to take the lead, especially those with missions engaged in youth training, activities and growth.
They include:
Safe and Sound Crime Strategy Initiative Project, Holton Youth and Family Center, COA-Riverwest, Girl Scouts, Boy Scout, Running Rebels, True Skool, AmeriCorps, Public Allies, Junior Achievers – Wisconsin, Young Women Christian Association, Young Men Christian Association, Boys and Girls Club, Big Brothers and Sisters, Milwaukee Public Theatre, Radio Milwaukee 88.9FM, YES-Voces de Frontera, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Area Technical College, UW-Milwaukee, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Marquette University, Alverno College, Concordia University, Cardinal Stritch University, private and technical colleges-schools, Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., Positive Images Inc., Black Child Development Institute, Black Health Coalition, Children’s Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, Froedtert Hospital, St. Luke Hospital, and Aurora Advanced Clinics.
Milwaukee Professionals Association will work with the SMRN to “re-define”, “re-brand” and “un-trap” Milwaukeeans by coordinating the “public messaging” through Saturday Talk, 2012 Annual Diversity Conference, videos, blogs, press releases, public service announcements, host Facebook website, and coordinate ongoing training.
Our first Orientation is: Saturday, August 20, 2011.
Place
UW-Milwaukee – Union
Multicultural Lounge
1st Floor
2200 E. Kenwood
Orientation
Milwaukee Professionals Association recruitment Orientation will discuss recent Global Temper Tantrum (Revolt/Protest-in-Violence), provide information about SMRN/Safety Matters Response Network and how to register for to be a SMRN member and/or sponsor for the 2011-2012 timeframe. JOIN US!
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