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Community Partners’ Fourth Open House
Seeks to Empower Toledo’s Youth
Partners Empowering
Community Safety Empowering-Zone 4
Special to The Truth
On Monday,
March 21, 2016, from 6 to 8 p.m., a community event at
Believe Center on Aurora Gonzalez Drive featured Toledo-area
human services providers, elected officials, public agencies
and various experts focusing on community involvement to
help prevent and recover from issues as it relates to
personal safety, drug abuse, and bullying.
Toledo area
youth listened to inspiring personal stories from community
members, personal testimonies from community members and
were given an opportunity to create, what are called,
Empowerment-Zones—or “E-Zones”—to link those most affected
by violence to much-needed services.
“E-Zone
4” was free and open to the public; food and refreshments
were served.
Partners
Empowering Community Safety (PECS) is a partnership of
Toledo-area citizens, elected officials, business
leaders, law enforcement, fire and rescue, court officers,
education system leaders, clergy, graduate students, and
public agencies have been working together to help end
violence in the Toledo community.
From these
meetings “Partners Empowering Community Safety (PECS)” took
shape. PECS is working to build protective factors, meet
needs, address concerns, and simply make Toledo a better
place. www.Facebook.com/ToledoPECS • 567-455-1049 567-455-1049
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