May 17, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (May 17, 2021) – Dr. Monique Williams, director of the city’s Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods (OSHN), spoke today to Metro Council, outlining many of the ways that Mayor Greg Fischer’s FY22 budget would enhance the Department’s role in helping create a safer Louisville.
Mayor Fischer’s proposed FY22 budget would invest $4.5 million in OSHN to advance his whole-of-government approach to violence reduction. This investment includes expansion of the Pivot to Peace initiative – evidence-based gun violence reduction strategies, including the existing hospital-based partnership, as well as an outreach system, clergy response team, and supports for the Gun Violence Intervention program. With the hospital-based initiative alone, the city has reduced injury recidivism among participants by 95 percent.
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April 12, 2021
Mayor Greg Fischer today joined the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhood’s (OSHN) Youth Implementation Team, representatives from Jefferson County Public Schools, Metro Council and other organizations serving the city’s youth to announce Louisville’s participation in National Youth Violence Prevention Week (NYVPW), an initiative designed to raise awareness about youth violence and highlight prevention strategies involving youth, parents, teachers, school personnel and community members.
“Public safety is something we – the public – have to work together to create. That’s the message we’re focusing on this week as we observe National Youth Violence Prevention Week here in Louisville to raise awareness about what we can do as a community to address this challenge,” said Mayor Fischer. “We owe it to all our kids to do all we can as a community to keep them, their families and our neighborhoods safe. Because witnessing a violent crime, worryin
Timothy Findley Jr., pastor of Kingdom Fellowship Christian Life Center and a community organizer, will run for mayor of Louisville in 2022, he told The Courier Journal on Tuesday.
The longtime pastor and Louisville native said that if elected, he would bring integrity, transparency and strategy to the office and called himself uniquely equipped to move the city to a place of healing and progress. I know what it means to bring healing, Findley said. I know what it means to move people forward. And I know what it means to as James Baldwin said face what needs to be fixed.
Updated: 11:29 PM EST Mar 13, 2021 WLKY Digital Team People from all over the country gathered at Jefferson square park to remember Breonna Taylor.Songs, chants, tears, and renewed calls for action-filled Jefferson Square Park on Saturday where hundreds rallied for Breonna Taylor exactly one year after she was shot and killed by Louisville police.“If you have never woke up on the first anniversary of the death of your daughter, you have no idea what Tamika Palmer is going through,” activist, Hannah Drake saidTamika Palmer, surrounded by those who have been on the frontlines for Breonna’s justice, is reassured that the fight will continue. Among them, Kenneth walker, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, whose charges for shooting an officer that night were permanently dropped this week.“I appreciate all the love and support for Breonna and for me,” Walker said.Empowerment and upliftment set the rally s tone as the families of George Floyd, Jacob Blake and o