Youth to Speak at City Hall on Violence

On Wednesday, November 16th at 7 PM at City Hall, the young people of Rochester are invited to discuss the problems facing youth in the City. The meeting will be the eleventh in a series of Community Policing meetings. This meeting will specifically address the challenges that young people have living in the City of Rochester and their solutions to these challenges.

Though the rash of youth violence is contained inside the city, the issues should be important to all youth and residents in the Greater Rochester area - meaning all of Monroe County. All young people should attend this meeting regardless of  zip code.  All of us are responsible for resolving this problem

What: Youth to Speak at City Hall

Where: City Hall, 30 Church St, Rochester, NY

When: Wednesday, Nov. 16th at 7 PM.

(A letter from Adam C. McFadden - Councilmember South District)

November 10, 2005

Dear Community Leader:

I invite you to listen to Rochester's hope and future.

On Wednesday, November 16th at 7 PM at City Council Chambers in City Hall, the young people of Rochester are invited to discuss the problems facing youth in the City. The meeting will be the eleventh in a series of Community Policing Meetings. The meeting will specifically address the challenges that young people have living in the City of Rochester and their solutions to these challenges.

Although adults are invited to attend, the youth of Rochester will run the meeting themseves under the auspices of Teen Empowerment of Rochester. Teen Empowerment was founded in Boston in 1992 and now has 7 sites operating in the Boston area and one in Rochester. Doug Ackley, a thirteen-year veteran of the organization began the Rochester site in the fall of 2003. Some of the many organizing initiatives that have had an impact in Rochester are the annual Youth Conference and Speak Out that has brought together over 400 City youths and adults each year, and the Youth-Police Unity Project that continues to engage teens and offices in meaningful dialogue to improve relations.

Adults are requested to listen and reflect upon the problems that affect young people in the City from youth volence to schools in crisis to a tightening job market and come away from the meeting with renewed sense of purpose to solve the issues that young people see as most relevant to their lives.

Thank you. I hope to see you on November 16th.

Sincerely,

Adam C. McFadden

74 Marlborough Road

Rochester, New York 14619-1408

585 - 279 - 0508