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All Set for Today’s Deliberative Dialogue on Police-Community Relations
The first forum in the 2015–2016 Deliberative Dialogue Series takes place this afternoon. The 90-minute will focus on police-community relations.
A panel of lead participants will share pertinent facts and provide diverse perspectives on the topic, “The Police and the Community: Who is Protected and Served?”
The panel will include representatives of various stakeholder groups – community members, law enforcement officials, students, alumni, faculty, and staff:
- Dr. Michael J. Alicea, an adjunct faculty member in the Barry’s School of Social Work, and a veteran law enforcement officer of the Miami and Coral Gables Police Departments. He has more than 30 years of experience with uniformed patrol, hostage negotiations, crisis intervention, and community relations.
- John Buhrmaster, a Barry alumnus, director of public safety and emergency management, and a former deputy chief of the City of Miami Beach Police Department. He has more than 40 years of law enforcement experience.
- Ezra Dieuveille, a Barry alumnus and the senior youth prevention specialist at Gang Alternative, a community-based organization that focuses its program on adolescents in Little Haiti. With Dieuveille will be youth currently participating in the Gang Alternative program.
- Cassandra Jiles, a representative of PACT (People Acting for Community Together), who worked with law enforcement on instituting programs that foster police-community cooperation in her home community of Miami Gardens and elsewhere in Miami-Dade County.
- Ajahni Johnston, a Barry student and a relative of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed on Aug. 9, 2014, by a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. Johnston participated in protests in Ferguson following Brown’s death. Dr. Victor Romano, associate professor of sociology and criminology, will be the moderator of the forum, in which all attendees are asked to participate. Romano is chair of the Miami-Dade County Commission on Human Rights.
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Community Engagement Fair Takes Place Next Wednesday
The Community Engagement Fair will be held on Wednesday, September 30, in the Atrium and Events Room of the Landon Student Center. The displays-and-discussion segment of the fair is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The CCSI will host a workshop for community partners from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. The topic of the workshop is “Effective Partnerships for Community-University Engagement.”
As part of the workshop, Dr. Sharron Singleton, director of field education in the School of Social Work, will make a presentation focusing on community partnerships that support course delivery.
Dr. Roxanne Davies, associate vice president for mission engagement, will deliver opening remarks.
Faculty and student organization advisors are encouraged to send students to the fair. Community partners will provide information on opportunities for collaborative service.
Additional information on the fair is available from the CCSI at service@barry.edu or 305-899-3696.
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Barry Volunteers Contribute to Success of Community Partner’s Sort-A-Thon
Twenty-five Barry students, faculty, and staff members participated in Feeding South Florida’s 3rd annual Sort-A-Thon in Pembroke Park on September 12.
Together with other volunteers assigned to one of the three-hour shifts, 16 Barry volunteers inspected, sorted, and packed more than 36,000 lbs. food items in the organization’s warehouse.
Nine members of Barry’s Minority Association of Pre-health Students (MAPS) and the Gamma Xi Chapter of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. were assigned to an earlier shift during the 24-hour service event.
Barry participants included Dr. Jennie L. Ricketts-Duncan, an assistant professor of education; Sandra Mancuso, director of grants and sponsored programs in the Division of Institutional Advancement; Arlene Taylor, an administrative assistant in the Adrian Dominican School of Education; and Liz James, experiential learning coordinator in the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI).
Alumna Jazzmyne Holmes (class of 2011, public relations), was one of the volunteers at Sort-A-Thon.
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) donated tags with hunger and food insecurity facts to Feeding South Florida, a Barry community partner. Feeding South Florida distributed the tags to nearly 100 Sort-A-Thon volunteers.
“Barry showed an excellent way that our community partners can support this initiative and spread awareness about the issues,” said Sibyl Brown, Feeding South Florida’s volunteer coordinator.
In South Florida (Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties), more than 13 percent of the population is “food insecure.”
According to a Feeding South Florida report, 79 percent of the region’s food-insecure population qualify, based on income, for SNAP (Foods Stamps) and other federal nutrition programs. The 21 percent who do not qualify “often must rely on emergency food-assistance programs and need better wages and employment opportunities to help them meet their basic needs,” the organization reported as part of Feeding America’s 2015 Map the Meal Gap analysis of food insecurity in the United States.
A designated 75 Acts of Service event to mark Barry’s 75th Anniversary, the Sort-A-Thon also was a service project for the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance during Barry’s Peace Month.
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Collection Boxes for Food Drive Placed at Several Locations
Collection boxes for the Hunger Action Month Food Drive have been placed at several locations on Barry’s main campus.
The specially marked boxes are on the Campus Ministry patio; in Thompson Hall – at Buc Stop, outside Human Resources and near the Mailroom; Kelly House – at Enrollment Services; Library; the Rooney Building – School of Professional and Career Education (PACE); School of Podiatric Medicine Building, Modular A and B; Powers Hall – School of Education and School of Social Work; and Wiegand Hall.
The Food Drive is a community service project for Feeding America’s Hunger Action Month as well as the university’s Peace Month.
Faculty, staff, and students are asked to donate non-perishable food items, which will be delivered to the Feeding South Florida food bank in Broward County at the end of the month.
Donations also may be dropped off in the offices of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), in Room 208 of Adrian Hall. Alternatively, donation pickup may be scheduled by calling 305-899-3696 or 3728.
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Nursing Students Mark 9/11 Anniversary in North Miami
On September 11, nine Barry nursing students joined the North Miami community to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and to remember the lives lost.
Accompanied by Dr. Mureen Shaw, assistant professor of nursing, the students attended the 9/11 observance at the North Miami Police Headquarters. City of North Miami officials, fire and police personnel, and community members participated.
After the event, City of North Miami Mayor Dr. Smith Joseph thanked the students for attending.
The students in attendance were Tenishe Adejo, Alisson Blandino, Virginie Chavannes, Pat Cooper, Chavely Cordoves, Blanca Crespo, Alexa De la Cruz, Lizeht Flores, and Danielle Forde.
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Faculty Learning Community Meets this Wednesday
The Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship will meet this Wednesday, September 23, from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. in Adrian 208. All members and prospective members are urged to attend.
For further information, contact Dr. Pamela Hall, FLC facilitator, at phall@barry.edu, or the CCSI.
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School-Based Enrichment Program Needs Volunteers
A school-based enrichment program called KAPOW needs volunteers. This is a civic engagement opportunity for Barry faculty and staff.
KAPOW (Kids and the Power of Work) exposes young students to career opportunities and helps them connect what they are learning in school to their futures.
“Here's your chance to have a profound effect on the lives of 25 students forever!” says Program Director Tania Reynolds.
“To participate, you are assigned to one class at a local elementary or middle school. You are assigned to one teacher and that teacher's class. You visit the same class seven times during the school year to deliver one hour of fun, dynamic, easy-to-use, and interactive lessons using our KAPOW curriculum,” Reynolds explains. “Before you begin the lessons, a one-time training will show you how to deliver the lessons and ensure that you will be successful and have a great time doing it!”
The KAPOW website and a video provide additional information on the program. Further details and sign-up information are available from Reynolds at taniakapow@gmail.com or 305-338-5548.
Faculty and staff members who volunteer for KAPOW are asked to let the CCSI know. The CCSI will assist with coordinating KAPOW-related field trips to the Barry campus.
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CCSI Newsletter
Posted On : September 21, 2015
