BCS Hosts CAB Meeting with Community Partners
What better way for Bronx Community Solutions (BCS) to
connect with many of our major community partners at once than though the
Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting? Our last CAB meeting was held last Friday,
September 25th and was led by Maria Almonte-Weston and Monica
Garcia. Unlike many previous meetings, where we placed our focus on what issues
have arisen in each community organization’s district, we concentrated on the
goals of CAB and the next steps for Bronx Community Solutions. This meeting's agenda was to expand upon the priorities for action that the CAB agreed upon at
our last meeting, in June 2015. Our agenda also included the opportunity for
staff to share the recent accomplishments we have achieved as well as include members in formulating goals for the upcoming year. Some of these recent successes include the Community Service department completion of numerous
projects to enhance the community such as the beautification/back-to-school event at Bryant Hill Garden in the Hunts Point area and doing beautification work and garden cleanup on River Avenue, the Yankee Stadium area at the request
of the 161st BID. Aside from conducting community service and maintaining
partnerships that we have had for years, we have also decided to strategically explore
new employment and vocational training connections to match the current needs
of BCS clients. The BCS staff strives to provide meaningful services to clients
along with keeping neighboring organizations involved. These meetings help to
not only keep our partners informed, but gives some well-deserved accolades to
the hardworking staff who made these events happen. I enjoyed being a part of
the meeting and hearing again from our partners what matters most to them in their communities, and what they need from BCS.
- Tiffany Barksdale, Office Manager
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