From Left to Right: New York State Senator Cordell Cleare, SCAN-Harbor Executive Director Lew Zuchman, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, and Chief of Staff for City Council Member Diana Ayala- Elsie Encarnacion
This past weekend, SCAN-Harbor was invited to sponsor a workshop during the legislative sessions at the SOMOS Conference in Albany, New York. SCAN-Harbor Executive Director, Lew Zuchman was a panelist and moderator on a legislative session titled “Decolonizing Inner-City Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth Work.”
This particular legislative session was visited by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. We take this as a sign of the importance of this issue, and of support that he feels is needed for the work SCAN-Harbor is doing in the East Harlem community.
At this panel, SCAN-Harbor had a chance to present a positive strength-based empowerment model for addressing youth violence.
This approach was recently highlighted in NYN Media which featured statistics and evidence of the success SCAN-Harbor has had along with its partners in curtailing youth violence in the East Harlem community.
