Our 2025 objectives
Affordable Housing
- Be present with City Council and hold them accountable to increase affordable housing.
- Propose and support tenant rights ordinances.
- Advocate for a regional housing plan.
- Through our houses of worship, educate people on tenant rights and housing resources.
- Actively work with media (the press / podcasts).
- Engage community councils on need for affordable housing.
Community Safety
- Listen, learn, and inform judicatories, congregations, and the broader community about community and gun violence prevention.
- Convene community violence prevention/intervention experts as presenters to Delegates Council and guests..
- Inform judicatory delegates about local court processes.
- Inform judicatory delegates about the Collaborative Refresh recommendations.
- Advocate for implementation of the Collaborative Refresh recommendations.
- Advocate for public policy initiatives and funding that prevent community violence locally, including equal application of sentencing to reduce prison population..
- Send representative to the University of Cincinnati Community Compliance Council and the City Manager Advisory Group to monitor Collaborative Refresh Goal Recommendations,
- Send representative to Greater Cincinnati Workforce Investment Council to advocate for job training and jobs for teens and returning citizens.
- Inform and advocate for use of the MARCC Photo I.D. Card in local governments, and increase the services offered by the ID Card..
- Learn and interpret early mental health childhood intervention practices that lead to community violence prevention among preteens and teens.
- Send representatives and train volunteers to participate in the Court Watch Project, particularly in Common Please Re-entry Court and Juvenile Mental Health Court..