Representatives for each of our neighborhoods having representatives that would come to a meeting that we held monthly. I could reports on the progress and challenges to the city and hear back from the residence. The next step became our designation as a form site. It builds on some of the work that was already underway. It allowed us to expand that coalition to bring in our School District, to get out of the silos, to bring in our nonprofits. Individuals that wanted to contribute to the social fabric of the city of camden come, it also included having our government and addressing our vision together with a shared vision. How do we create the social supports that are necessary for children, youth, and families to survive . We moved on and went through our training and receives technical assistance, we also took part of a nonprofit, the center for family services, a work with us on trauma informed care. Not only were we able to launch the cure for camden, based on the chicago model, we
The most vicious insult at me when he said i was the only person he ever met whose eyes lit up at the words held discussion. Poverty is a subject we talk about when events such as those in baltimore grab our attention. And then we bury it. We say it is not a lyrically shrewd. I salute georgetown. All the others who are gathered here for the summit. From all religious traditions all over the country. Our friend once said, if you cut everything jesus said about the poor out of the gospel, you have a book full of holes. These are people who understand what the scriptures said. Two organizing points. The first is, when it is time to go, please keep your seats so the president can be escorted out. The other is we agreed we should direct more attention to president obama than other members of the panel. I say that in advance so you know this was our call and not some exercise in executive power. This was our decision to do this. We hope this will be a backandforth kind of discussion. Feel fr
[applause] thank you all the more for making them available to help us out with this. Thank you so much, bob. All right, so as we transition now id like to ask our panelists to come up for what is entitled champions for justice leaders working to end Youth Violence. If you could join me now in welcoming our mayors from camden, minneapolis, oakland and salinas as they come up. [applause] so this is kind of exciting. For me. This is an opportunity now for us to have a conversation with leadership that really is tasked with leading the work. And so when we thought about this conversation, we knew that we would hear the support from the administration. We knew we would have congressional leadership and folks at the federal level speak to what we can do at the national. But so much of what we do when it comes to addressing and preventing, reducing Youth Violence is led by our mayors. We know when we put together the formum we said we needed commitment, clear commitment from mayors, our chie
Influence on the presidency from Martha Washington to michelle obama, sundays on cspan3. As a compliment, cspans new book is available with historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women providing lively stories of these fascinating women creating an entertaining and inspiring read. It is available as hardcover or ebook. Next, u. S. Mayors discuss the problem of Youth Violence. Followed by a panel of innercity young people offering their perspectives. The s. E. C. Chair talks about the recent adoption of open internet rules and other issues facing the f. C. C. Before annual National Summit on preventing Youth Violence was held in washington d c this week held in washington, d. C. , this week to share information and strategies to reduce and prevent violence. This forum from tuesday featured mayors discussing programs and issues in their cities. It is just under an hour. From tuesday featured mayors discussing programs in their cities. It is just under an hour. Thank you all the mo
Friday morning. Im willie geist. Im tamron hall. Matt and savannah enjoying a long weekend, hopefully sleeping off turkey. I understand you cooked. How did that go . Let me put this a different way. Why dont you. When you cook a turkey, the plastic do you take that out or leave it in . I knew this was coming. I made five side, two cakes, one pie, and yes, i left the turkey stuff inside. Why is it there . So the gravy was plastic. Is that what youre saying . No. It was cooked and my mother found it. Cooking for your mother for the first time. Your family is still recovering. At the hospital. Plenty of people, though, up bright and early racing into the stores trying to snap up all of the bargains out there on black friday. The busy shopping day of the year coming up well take to you the front lines also reveal some of the best bargains from tech to clothing, even items for free. More drama for halle berry. She has been locked in a custody battle with the faerpt of her little girl. On th