Our Executive Director, k. Bain joined Global Public Health Experts at a session on Leading for Global Public Health: Lessons from a Pandemic, at the “Leadership Through Global Change” Summit, NYU Steinhardt, Abu Dhabi. The Panelists comprising experts from various fields in the public health sector, spoke on the state of global public health with […]
Annually our city comes together to celebrate what has come to be known as Peace Week. This allows communities to come together to celebrate a culture of peace by performing activities and encourage positive actions for peaceful coexistence. It equally allows the community an opportunity to honor the life of Dr. Mathin Luther King Jr. […]
The Safe Summer 2022 was a huge success base off of the remarkable impact of the previous year activities. Safe Summer is a multi-city, community led public safety initiative developed by CCD to address gun violence before it happens. Working with all Human Justice partners, local violence prevention organizations, elected officials and community leaders, our […]
The popular American rapper and song writer, Cardi B is among other notable celebrities that extends partnership collaboration with CCD in 2022. The celebrity is highly motivated to partner with CCD to explore the opportunity to appraise the Youth Justice Network Music studio program, a peaceful lyrical message recorded over a drill inspired music production. […]
Early in the year, in celebration of black excellence, we organized our 1st Annual Human Justice Gala by bringing together Black and Brown folks, community leaders, elected officials and corporate supporters to a colorful night of glitz and glamour. It was an opportunity for acknowledgment to celebrate and highlight the achievements of leaders who continually […]
The year 2022 at CCD has been a very eventful one full of progress and remarkable achievements. We started the year in February with a call from the President of United States requesting to meet with our Executive Director, K. Bain and the CCD team in our New York office. The President visited our program […]
Ebony Young The work that we do specializes in results and testimonials continue to pour in from individuals and the community we serve. Responding to Mayor Adams Blueprint to End Gun violence, we continue to engage local leadership, community members and critical stakeholders by organizing Monthly Community Stakeholders meeting and the feedback from this dialogue […]
As a” Core-5” member of the White House Community violence intervention collaborative CVIC, the CCD team led by Demetrius Similien, our National Coordinator, was at the White House to participate in the National Training and Technical Assistance Convening on December 8. This convening was the culmination of an 18-month strategic initiative launched by the Biden-Harris […]
In December, our Executive Director had a one-on-one Interactive session with Ms. Resto, the Principal of I.S.232 in The Bronx. K. Bain spoke extensively on the key components of the Sustainable Growth Plan (SGP) and the need to introduce this customizable tool to help the young ones navigate a life of purpose. The Executive Director […]
Gary ‘Wadu’ Taylor is a Human Justice Ambassador with CCD. Formerly incarcerated, he joined CCD to work in the empowerment of youth in his community. He completed the Human Justice training and is now an example to his community. This is an example of CCD’s Community engagement, systems change and individual transformation (CSI) programs.