Project Updates Carey Street Street Bridge: lights are being installed Following up with vendor on Hollins Roundhouse Neighborhood signs Please let Elizabeth know if there are projects that you are interested in seeing implemented–even though we don’t have funding know we can do the prep work to be ready to implement projects once …
Police and Safety Updates BPD Southern DIstrict recently had Barre Circle community walk, will hold a community walk once a month. Encampment at the corner of MLK was brought up as a concern, and will coordinate with the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services. Discussed vehicle thefts in Pigtown as well as Southern District crime stats. …
Program Updates Crossing Guards: Hiring event scheduled for April 17th at the Vintage Gardens community center 10am-12pm. Doing outreach to various senior centers and community groups, will send to churches, encourage committee members to share the event. Franklin Square has a crossing guard at Stricker and Lombard, have another guard allocated but the position …
Project Updates Carey St Bridge: work is ongoing and tentatively will be installed and lights will be on early April Model Park baseball field: approved by Baltimore City Schools, scheduled for this spring, will be natural grass field renovations Franklin Square Comfort Station: have funding available for the renovation of the comfort station–will probably will …
Community Health Workers Research and Funding Dr Iyabo Obasanjo’s research has looked at community health workers in particular and low income workers in general–she has identified through her research work a challenge in understanding why people leave jobs–even when they have obtained employment through support services, and they are not leaving for another job. Most …
Program Updates Crossing Guards: Heidi Stevens from the United Way and Cynthia Poindexter have been planning a hiring event to facilitate hiring of crossing guards locally. They were able to speak to the Sgt on hiring crossing guards to have someone at the recruiting event. Event will be held at Vintage Gardens. Still waiting for …
Police and Safety Updates Officer Smith shared the January Southern District crime stats Also working on addressing issues raised during community safety walk in Pigtown. Were able to make four arrests in the Pigtown area. Also planned bike patrols in Pigtown. State’s Attorney’s office citation docket–to address low level offenses that weren’t being prosecuted. …
Program Updates Elizabeth updated the committee on potential future directions for the committee–outreach and recruitment is one UMMC–needs resources in the case management department for incumbent workers–case management is a major need UMMC–needs survey–housing and eviction are major needs. Committee discussed resource options for housing needs. State DHCD may be an option
Discussion About Next Steps for Workforce Development Programming Elizabeth recapped current SWP workforce programming. There has been a growth in the number of workforce development organizations in the area which may mean that there is less of a need for us to provide workforce development services. Committee doesn’t see a need for the SWP …
Workforce Grantee Updates Paul’s Place has enrolled everyone they said they would, NPower and B&O are still working on it. B&O has an expensive program and a small cohort with a long training period, and so will be recruiting again in the fall. We will work with NPower to support their local recruitment. The …
