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M4 Written Assignment: Policy and Politics HUSV-3333-01 Community Organizing 11/28/23 Words:1,700 There is no coincidence that policy, politics and power all start with the letter P. The combination of these three words is what can push and propel a community project to its full potential. There are regime policies at the federal, state and local levels that have an impact on the target initiative of the Brooklyn Legacy project. There can be negative and/or positive impacts. Its the job of the community organizing leaders to be tactful and diplomatic when operating under these structures. The social sectors of my target initiative and the sectorial policies that may affect it all governmental levels include the homelessness initiative, the “A Tree grows in Brooklyn” initiative and the “Bridging the gap between police and community initiative. The homelessness initiative is a policy initiative aimed at the community group of homeless shelters and the homeless people in this community under the BLP. The goal of this initiative is to provide healthcare and improve their outcomes overall. The BLP will collaborate with the homeless shelters under the Affordable Care Act and to reduce the readmission rates of

the homeless. This policy initiative will also work with social workers from the local community and Medicare and Medicaid to guarantee that hospitals with high readmission rates receive reduced reimbursements (Koh, 2020). Homeless people get readmitted a lot because of their unfortunate li fe circumstances, and this legislation is crucial in addressing their special needs and guaranteeing effective healthcare delivery. The next initiative is one of sustainability. The “A Tree grows in Brooklyn initiative its to provide proper proper solutions to various problems the community is facing by establishing a network which is supportive where the community can be involved and assist each other through a sustainable community tree initiative. Notably, we are looking for assistance from a myriad of institutions for finances, information, implementation and overall networking. This initiative also calls for a networking facility center where the community can reach out for information, help, a place where vendors and business owners, people from the community can learn from each other and maybe help each other long term in various ventures. Lastly, end goal is the erection of a tree on the middle block of Park place between New York avenue and Brooklyn ave where my private school is that I went to growing up. This BLP project will provide opportunities under the “A Tree grows in Brooklyn initiative by increasing awareness on the community is run, by strengthening the relationship with the diverse members of the community and organization in the neighborhood. Lastly, the “Bridging the gap between the community and police initiative will be demonstrated by creating police- community partnerships to create trust and collaboration between police and the community. This last initiative calls for transparent policing, the use of technological advancements like GPS technologies, fostering partnerships with law enforcement organizations like ATF, FBI, metropolitan transit police, etc. There will also be a park and recreation watch and forming alliances with the Boys and Girls club on Fulton street and Hebron SDA church and school

where citizens and and community leaders can hon forces by sending a positive message and building street lights to foster a safe community . There numerous demands and supports for change that will impact the Brooklyn Legacy project. It ranges from support from the Nursing home on St. Marks street, the seventh-day adventist organization of Hebron School and church. There are numerous amount of human and social service professionals in the actual community that will support us with their time and funds. The charities of AHRC and homeless shelters will provide their time, energy and charities to help sponsor some of endeavors like soup kitchens given on the corner of Bedford Ave and Atlantic Ave and local council member that help push our initiative under the Affordable Care Act . Unfortunately, there are groups, forces and or even some policies that may oppose the BLP project. Firstly, there will always be a sense of mistrust and negativity from the community in the initial stages of community organizing. Secondly, there are many people in the local communities who will difficulty engaging in political activities because they are just not interested and can result in an imbalance of participation and power . There are a plethora of ways I will try increase the demands and supports for the BLP project by expressing more and more the problems caused by inequality in our communities and looking for support for legislation and activities that assist marginalized groups, which extremely helps when justice is the end goal. As a community organizer of the BLP, I will increase demands and supports by starting campaigns to secure funding through the street light project, secure funding local public policy councils, working on passing laws that help the environment, decrease

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pollutions and start campaigns to secure affordable housing for low-income residents and quality access to education and healthcare. I truly believe by mobilizing and educating the community, lobbying elected officials, building coalitions through partnerships with the police, BLP can make real difference in the lives of people who live in the Crown Heights area . The key stakeholders for my BLP project and strategies that will be needed to gain their continued support are the Brooklyn Hospital downtown Brooklyn, LIU (Brooklyn Campus), Borough Recreation Center on St. John’s Place, Crown Heights city council, Crown Heights Public Health Partnership, Clara Barton High School on Classon Avenue via the American Red Cross, Brooklyn Museum . There are gatekeepers that will be identified in this paper that can open doors and provide influence for the passing of the BLP. These gatekeepers will open doors for this project to get us the emotional and financial support we need to be successful. Being a gatekeeper basically means someone or a group that have influence or control over youth access to resources. The gatekeeper for BLP are the daily news, fox news as the information sources and the community gatekeepers is someone that will keep the peace act as a liaison. We have Rabbi Lubowitz from temple on Kingston Ave, Pastor Joseph from the Hebron Seventh-day adventist and church and our community leader Sharon who owns stores on Kingston avenue and who is a social worker as well. These 3 gatekeepers are our elected leaders that will use their influence on the cultural and political environment needed to get us to where we need to get to in our community as a whole . There will be a community component or and political strong hold that will enable the BLP

to launch. At the time, there will be some impediments in our way and we need to be able to be well equipped to combat that when the appropriate time comes. For instance, we anticipate it being difficult to work with our in initiative on bridging the gap between police and the community by the police already resisting the involvement of other agencies to help reduce and carefully examine the problems in the neighborhood. The police are also ready resisting the decentralizing of authority of the neighborhood which might be problematic moving forward. We will continue to work with 71st and 77th precinct on way on exploring appropriate problem solving remedies to excessive police presence in our community and over-criminalization in our community . There are various outputs of the process for the success of the BLP. Theres an ideal outcome, the community is galvanized and empowered for change. The next steps after this outcome will be community mobilization on campaigns for cleaner streets, sitting in town hall meetings, raising funds for the community to conduct business meetings at the local level in Crown heights and that all diverse communities still together at one table as one group to define and better our realities together . There are compromise outcomes like the many Jew buildings not backing down on the prices of rent and relocation alternatives of the buildings. The next steps after this outcome will be will be to come together and respect autonomy and cultural sensitivity and come to a flexible, collective decision on how to settle this issue. There are undesirable outcomes are total resistance. The next steps after this outcome will be to sell the idea of strong community organizing efforts and building social capital. I would have to work harder to resource the

movement and sell the community idea with the help of my gatekeepers . Every project needs a feedback process that can allow us to measure and assess our project as its being implemented and planned. The ways I will maintain support is to be in constant communication with the group. What I learned not to do is to communicate well and trust people slowly especially when there’s a team goal. The way that I will maintain support is to always stay open-minded and always have a service mentality. Great leaders and great teams are not only great because of their accolades and achievements but because of their ability to serve and to be selfless in supporting the BLP . There are many social values that may affect the project. The BLP will be developed in probably one of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York City. With that diversity comes many point of views and perspectives. A likely view of the on the underlying issue of is to respect all cultures and all differences. I truly believe that this enormous diversity can be more of a positive than negative because of the vast amounts of different culture and social values. We can use this diversity to our advantage and create some awesome initiatives by working together working on the tree project. This type of networking can be more positive in the long-term . When a new regime comes in and takes over the city and local districts there will be different rules and regulations to follow. Thus any regime changes or alterations in policy can affect BLP initiatives. Fro example with our current Mayor now, Mayor Eric Adams who’s has just

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proposed a new directive targeting people with perceived mental illness for removal off the streets and mandatory hospitalization. This new regime policy is the opposite my BLP and its initiative which is to provide shelter and reduce repeat hospitalizations of the homeless. Moreover, my policing and community partnerships initiative will be compromised as Mayor Adams initiative results in further criminalization and police violence against this unhoused population . Reference McKnight, J. S., & Plummer, J. M. (2015). Community organizing : theory and practice. Pearson Education, Inc . Koh, H (20 20). Addressing social determinants of health: opportunities in Affordable Care Act, Health, 143(4 .(

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