All right, good morning everyone I Said good morning everyone Who is ready to give away a million dollars? This is exciting Tuesday morning heart of SoCAP really excited to see all of you here for the Justice Innovation Prize competition We are living through an age of Invention and disruption and yet for the last 200 years There is a part of our society that has remained completely unchanged our prison system. So that's about to change right now I'm Yanos Martin and the chief advocacy officer at dream.org We are an organization committed to closing prison doors and opening doors of opportunity That means that we work with people directly impacted by the prison system to change laws and policies at the state local and federal level However, we've come to the conclusion that legislation alone is not going to end mass incarceration We need to work with allies across different industries people who are doing cutting-edge work in Technology to figure out that if there are ways to disrupt the prison industry using technology and innovation So that's why this year in January. We launched the justice innovation prize I'm commending to give away one million dollars to the best ideas to disrupt the prison industry The five finalists that you're going to hear from today are the people who have made it through that difficult process We had hundreds of people register 75 finalists who went through peer review who went through expert panel review Who were looked at by dream.org very carefully and these five finalists Have really delivered in the four ways that we're evaluating the best ideas for the future. These ideas are innovative They're new to the field. They're impactful. They're going to help a lot of people if they succeed. They're feasible We really believe that the each of these finalists are capable of pulling off the idea that they're sharing with you today and And they're scalable It's very important for us when we think about solutions for the criminal justice system to not only have a good idea But have a good idea that can work anywhere in the country if it's implemented So that's how we got here today five finalists out of many applicants We were proud in this process that we had many applicants from historically marginalized communities 71% of the applicants were led by people of color 60% were led by women and 74% were led by people directly impacted by the criminal legal system and you're really going to see that reflected in the five finalists that we have here today So the way this is going to work is each of them are going to come out and pitch for a few minutes But dream.org, you know, we're new to this space. We're new to this kind of entrepreneurialism So we decided to have five esteemed judges join us today to help us pick the winner They're going to choose three winners. We're going to get two hundred fifty thousand dollars each That's on top of the fifty thousand dollar planning grants that each of these finalists received So I'm going to introduce them one by one and you give her a round of applause for all of actually give them applause as they come out Why not first an entrepreneur and author Hannah Broughman? Second an investor in residence at Dynamo Ventures and the founder of Rockyard Ventures Daniel Dart Third an impact investor and founding partner of the Candid group and something of a so-cap legend Morgan Simon Next a president and creative director at Shaka Senghor Inc. Shaka Senghor and Mary Rivera is running late. So I will step in her stead if she is not able to make it So with that These five judges are going to listen to each of the presentations and we're going to ask questions of all of the five finalists And so very excited to welcome the very first finalists from unlocked labs Jessica Hinckwin Powering justice-involved Technologists to leverage their lived experience unlock labs is a nonprofit building a better justice system from the inside out My name is Jessica Hickman. I'm CTO and co-founder of unlocked labs At 16 I was sent to prison on a life without parole sentence Walked away in the Potosi Correctional Center, Missouri's death row prison. I had no access to formal education Even after a landmark Supreme Court case gave me the opportunity to come home I left prison after 26 years without a single formal education experience Unfortunately, this part of my story is the norm for the United States three out of five incarcerated adults are functionally literate Seven out of ten do not have a high school diploma and less than six percent have access to higher education As an unsurprising result 83% of those released from prison will be re-arrested within ten years But this does not have to be a reality Research shows that by increasing access to education we can nearly eliminate the likelihood of re-arrest While incarcerated I was so frustrated by my lack of access to education that I took matters into my own hands I taught myself how to code without the internet with that stack of textbooks with my peers don't unlock ed unlock ed is an open-source comprehensive digital education Platform designed specifically for corrections environments to focus on creating data-driven solutions to mass incarceration To illustrate let's consider for example Damien's story Through unlock ed Damien accesses college courses from Washington University vocational training from Plurals site anger management from his mental health providers and basic computer literacy training from Google Well Damien gains education Unlock ed quietly gathers data in the background allowing him to validate his educational experiences to pulling authorities and future employers His Damien returns to his community existing parole tracking programs will will assess his reentry success correlating with unlock ed data justice professionals will be able to Refind education offerings to achieve maximum effectiveness What really makes unlock ed so unique though is that Damien's experience is shaped by justice-involved technologists that are just like him Technologists that have a combined to two centuries of experience living closest to the problem We partner those tech those technologists with industry experts for example one of our team members has 15 years of experience leading engineering at Blackboard Another has successfully scaled multiple tech startups Collectively we had the experience necessary to make corrections evidence-based and data-driven Through our unique approach we can lead corrections back to its rehabilitative intent Reducing the prison population by more than 50% over the next 10 years in the short term. We can have immediate impact today though Unlock ed was deployed nationally. We could enable this nation's earn credit release laws laws that go largely underutilized Through this process students would be able to validate their program participation These laws can be used to their fullest intent and 350,000 individuals could be immediately released as a result You know I left prison 21 years ago and now I'm a justice innovation price finalist My story isn't an anomaly, but it doesn't have to be Unlock labs has a potential launch in five states next year by taking this next step We'll be able to prove a national model that that can be replicated to all 50 states We're going to take this step though. We need your help Unlock labs is raising two million dollars to reach five states By taking this next step, we'll be able to prove to governments the safety and cost benefits of our solution Governments that it will be willing to invest in the solution unlock labs offers. I Hope that you will join our community of supporters and together we can build a better justice system from the inside out. Thank you About about this. Hi, that was amazing pitch So you need two million for five states and then does that cost come come down per state after that and Your nonprofit correct Okay So yeah, can you just tell me how like how much capital do you need in order to scale across the United States? Sure a couple things one. We're taking this plan to feed its catalyst approach So the idea is by reaching five states We can prove out to governments that this is an effective solution our end goal is to build public infrastructure We should do all the governments so currently through the philanthropy We've received I have a team of eight people and we've reached roughly five thousand people We believe that by getting that two million we can increase our team large enough to reach five hundred thousand people So it is it is not a linear scale. It is a matter of reaching that proof of concept Just really quick. Do you have to in order to get into each state pilot Do you have to talk to the state got like governing system of that state? Individually for each state that you want to get into that's a great question And I believe that is one of our advantages on my labs is that we have experienced working with the individual states In fact, we've interfaced with 25 of the 50 states currently to gauge, you know, product market fit And there's always an interest in data-driven solutions All right next up we have Dev Sheen a rotra from justice text in 2015 I left my hometown to attend school in Chicago as I settled in I grew to fall in love with the city It's history and its people But as I soon came to realize Chicago is a rather complicated place It's a city in which a 17 year old Unarmed black American boy by the name of Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by a local police officer That officer only received seven years as punishment But without the dash cam footage of the incident there likely would have been no accountability at all More and more police interactions are being caught on camera than ever before Well over 50% of law enforcement agencies have already rolled out body cams And the typical police department captures tens of thousands of hours of footage per year As a society we've invested over a hundred million dollars in rolling out this police technology But we failed to ask the question. How does this actually lead to greater accountability? What most people don't realize is that the system to analyze this data is broken A Virginia public defender recently said that there was no way physically possible For him to review the sheer volume of footage he receives For reviewing this data is critical Because it reveals information that could redirect people's lives Before they experience the harms of incarceration Hi, my name is Dave Shee and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Justice Text During my senior year in college, I reached out to my local public defenders and I told them I wanted to try and make a difference Public defenders serve 80% of all criminal defendants in this country, but they are systemically underfunded, understaffed, and underestimated. We knew we could change that. We started building the first centralized infrastructure for cataloging, storing, analyzing, and sharing audio video data in the criminal justice system. Our software transcribes this footage in a matter of minutes and we leveraged state-of-the-art and machine learning to automatically generate a timeline of key events. As an attorney, I can now jump to the exact moment my client was morandized and ministered a field to variety test or placed under arrest. Attorneys also use our software to decode a wide range of proprietary file formats created by monopolistic jail call providers and body cam manufacturers. We started off as a small school project and today we're serving over 50 public defender offices nationwide, including statewide partnerships with Massachusetts and Kentucky. Houston's Chief Public Defender told us that we've already delivered 50% in time-safe conditions, and that we're going to be able to do a lot of different things. For his attorneys. To date, we've processed over 15,000 hours of footage on our platform, which has been used to dismiss charges and reduce sentences for countless defendants. Here's one example. In Kentucky, a public defender recently secured an acquittal for a client that was facing 10 to 20 years in prison. During the trial, he realized that the opposing witnesses testimony contradicted what they had said in prior recorded statements. He then immediately used justice text to find those contradictions across hours of footage and impeach the witness with their own words. He told us that because of our technology, this was the first time he felt as if he was on a level playing field with the prosecution. Not only are we making a tangible impact, but our path to doing so is sustainable. We charge an annual subscription and are close to crossing a million dollars in sales this year alone. The dream.org prize will enable us to scale to the 40% of low-income defendants who are not represented by institutional public defenders. In this next phase, we plan to serve assigned council plans all across the country. We're a highly technical team that brings engineering experience from organizations like Google, Facebook and Microsoft. We've built justice text hand in hand with hundreds of public defenders across the country. And we hope you'll join us in scaling this work. Thank you. Great presentation. As you're serving this to different public defenders, how do you face issues when you can't get access to the footage or something like that? That's a really good question. And I think one of the structural issues that we didn't realize is that even getting access to discovery is a challenge in many different jurisdictions. Police and prosecutors have outsized power and say in when the data is shared and in what formats it's shared. And so honestly, it's been really amazing for us to work side by side with public defenders and making the case to prosecutors why they should be sharing this data in a more timely fashion and in more compatible formats. And from our end, we've actually reverse engineered a lot of the really, really challenging proprietary file formats, which previously used to cause issues for our attorneys so that now they can play it natively within justice text. Thanks. All right. Next up, we have Sabra Williams and Major Bunton, the co-founders of Creative Acts. We come to you not so fresh from our week long virtual reality program in solitary confinement at Corcoran State Prison. Now imagine it's 1990, no cell phones, no computers. You check out at a supermarket with the teller, someone pumps your gas for you and there's no internet or Google. Now take a few seconds and imagine you fast forward and you find yourself in 2023. Everything is computerized. It's like arriving in another country where you don't know the language or the culture. Welcome to the experience of people like me in about 35,000 Californians a year. People returning after life sentences or decades in prison also have to cope with the intentional trauma that prison creates and the shame that accompanies a return. No wonder so many people go back to prison. We can do better than we have begun to. If you want to solve a justice problem that can also change the justice system, you have to think creatively. This is where artists come in. We need some of the most creative minds, some of the most fearless people to radically reimagine our future. Artists have always been on the forefront of movements. Over the decades that we've been working in prisons we've seen a major problem that remains unaddressed and we found a creative solution. How do you bring the outside world inside to help people return home better? And then how do you scale it and make it something that becomes the norm for returning citizens? We know our idea has the potential to both change prison culture and make life safer and traumatic for everyone. And when we say everyone, we mean it. When I was incarcerated, it was easy to see the problem as being the correct officer. They were lazy, violent, abusive, and inhumane.  And when I heard they had the highest suicidal rate of any profession, my suspicions were confirmed. New studies have found that of the 600,000 people released nationally, 40% will have post-incarceration syndrome, a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a range of psychological, emotional, and social difficulties. We know our existing virtual reality arts programs had a deep impact on just these issues for people who are incarcerated. But what about the people who work in the system? In order to dismantle the prison industrial complex that everyone upholds, everyone has to be activated. Therefore, our innovation is to use the arts and virtual reality to include residents and correctional officers working together in the same room for the very first time. Five residents, five correctional officers will meet for four hours daily for five days with no uniforms, no weapons, first name only to respond to the question, how can we deal with serious harm if there were no police or no prisons? We already have interest nationally and internationally with the right investment. This is an ideal that is ready and easy to scale. We'll use virtual reality to enable them to develop common experiences. We'll use theater, painting, poetry, music, and dance to bring joy and creativity to the process and help them heal trauma. And in a space where they're tackling a question that is so big, they can't hold on to what they know. They will discover that the only thing they have to hold on to is each other. I know what it's like to be traumatized, to live with violence and revenge. But thanks to this work, I also know what it's like to have access to the resources of the arts and tech to transform it. And in the process, to transform a racist, punitive culture. As one of the most violent participants said, I myself was one of the worst inmates here. And this program motivated me to change the way I think and feel about myself, life, and others. This is a game changer. Now imagine if the impact of this innovative idea was the default for the 600,000 people returning home. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for your work. I really appreciate the emphasis in bringing together arts and technology. And I also run a dance company I know about the transformative potential of the arts and how difficult that can be to communicate. And one of the things that you mentioned in your application was having done a pilot and seeing some of the qualitative measures and quantitative measures. I wanted to see if you could share more about some of the outcomes that you've seen and how that influences how you think about scaling. So we work in stories. I'm an actor. So we had the guy in our class who is known as the worst person in CDCR in the prison system. The warden wanted him to do our program. All the COs, all the correctional officers were against him doing it because he has the highest number of infractions in the whole state. But she wanted him out of the shoe. He did 12 years in solitary. So she put him in our program. And he lit up from the first day. And the mental health professionals came to us on day three and said, I don't know what you're doing, but whatever you're doing, it needs to be everywhere in the prison. And this is a mental health program. So after the program, this guy was released from the shoe first time in 12 years. He went to the main line in another prison. And without our knowledge, he wrote to the governor and said, I've never done a program before. This is the only thing I've experienced in what 30 years of being incarcerated that has ever worked. He said, you're investing so much money in things. Why are you not investing? And that was quote from him in what works. And he's out now. He's out of solitary confinement. He's back on the main line doing good. And server here's an example for other people who are like, you know, if he can do it, anyone can do it. That's how we measure our success. There are numbers as well. But we measure our success in individual human transformation. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have today Tatum Edwards with free cap. Hi, so cap. My name is today. And I am the founder and CEO of free cap financial. I grew up in a small town in rural Florida, where some of the smartest people I know were pipeline to prison instead of college, including my little brother. I spent over a decade studying the prison industrial complex, and I built a career in asset management to help end it. There's a network of companies that have a direct financial incentive to keep people behind bars. And it's not just private prisons. It's companies who use prison labor in their supply chain and then turn around and refuse to hire those same returning citizens when they come home looking for work. At free cap, we believe we can disrupt this cycle of harmful profit incentives by mobilizing investors. As long as incarceration remains profitable, companies will always find ways to undermine our reform goals. Our team is gathering data to bring unprecedented transparency to the criminal justice footprint of over 3,000 companies. We built the first and only data set that quantifies how much money companies make from profiting off of prisons. But we don't stop there. We also work with justice-involved communities to figure out what policies and practices companies can actually adopt to help us reduce recidivism. We launched our data system subscription service in January, and I'm very excited to share that it's already making waves in the market. It took us less than six months from launch to secure a multi-year licensing agreement with a tier one enterprise bank, and our data is influencing nearly $10 billion in the market currently. Today, we're here seeking your support to turn this data into a financial index and exchange-traded fund. The free index will measure corporate impact on justice-involved people. Companies who are the best at hiring returning citizens while reducing their prison footprint will receive the highest ratings and be included in the index each year. A financial index can help us make prison risk a material financial metric. It'll make more transparent which companies are leading in this space and expose those who are lagging, and we know this level of transparency can shape corporate behavior. Just look at Walmart as a case study. They received backlash from consumers and investors in 2020 because of their history of prison labor in their supply chain. And now, just three years later, they're partnering with reentry service providers across the country to actively recruit and hire formerly incarcerated workers. Walmart's commitments to fair chance hiring moved them from a mid-tier company in our data set to now being an industry leader. Walmart is not the only folks who are doing this. We're seeing many more companies committing to second chance hiring, and to our knowledge, we're the only people who are actively tracking this for investors. We're also seeing momentum in the social responsible investing space. 80% of investors plan to increase their allocation to ESG funds over the next two years, and by 2026, there will be $33 trillion invested in these type of funds. We have the rare opportunity to turn decarceration into a global investing movement. Imagine a world where instead of investing in prisons, the money that you already have sitting in the stock market can help us defund the prison industrial complex and reduce recidivism. Together, with the free index, we can make that possible. Hey, how you doing? It's great, great pitch. So I just have a simple question. When I think about investing, what is the barrier to entry, and what are you doing to lower that barrier or remove that barrier? That's a great question. Right now, one of the reasons we applied to this prize is because the data that we have currently is only accessible to high net worth individuals in separately managed accounts. We want everyone at any dollar amount to be able to invest in decarceration. So with an exchange-shaded fund, that can be hosted on Robinhood, that can be in your 401k account. And so anyone that has a dollar to invest in the stock market would be able to participate in the strategy. All right. Last but not least, we have Kevin Scott from Just Income. This is the homeless shelter in the city that I live in. And when I got out of prison, I actually slept in the parking lot because this place is actually a decommissioned prison. And the thought of swapping one set of bars for another was just too much for me to bear. So that's how I came home. Freedom was so complicated. There were tears of joy when I finally hugged my daughter again and when I felt the ocean. And there were tears of terror. Reincarceration loomed over me because I couldn't afford the cost of my own probation. That's not just my experience. It's terribly common. My name is Kevin Scott. I'm now the program director of Just Income, created by and for formerly incarcerated people in Gainesville, Florida. We understand these challenges because we have walked the same path. Florida, like much of the South, is steeped in racism and mass incarceration. Florida prisoners are forced into unpaid labor under constant threat of violence. After we come home, we face dismal job prospects, rampant homelessness, and the lasting trauma of incarceration. Add on to that fees for supervision, ankle monitors, drug testing and more. Florida weaponizes those fines and fees. So the inability to pay means reincarceration with suffocating. Where we live, 23% of probation violations are just due to a lack of money. The crime is your bank account.  But what if we offered people coming out of incarceration some unconditional financial support? Just Income does exactly that. In our pilot year, we gave 115 recently released people $1,000 a first month and 600 a month for the next 11 months. No strings attached. And please know this. 90% of our recipients had less than $50 when we started. And they defied stereotypes, using their income to secure employment, housing, healthcare, and eliminate correctional debt. This led to a radical 43% decrease in money related reincarceration. People are free because they're no longer too poor. We've shown that by directly investing in people, we could save millions in a system that is hemorrhaging billions on violations. Guaranteed income is not a new concept. Dr. King saw it as a tool to address economic and racial disparities. Unrestricted income allows people to make their own choices as experts in their own lives. This is my dear friend, V. For years, she was trapped in a cycle of poverty, homelessness, addiction, abuse, and incarceration. With the flexibility of a guaranteed income, she was able to get into stable housing, address her addiction, take online classes, get certified for work, and she reunited with her children. And as she says, hope goes a long way for people who are accustomed to hopelessness. Our recipients feel valued because we trust them and believe in their inherent potential to chart their own courses. For way too many, this is not reentry. This is entry for the very first time. So Florida openly hostile to formerly incarcerated people is where we've taken a stand. But our impact is not just local. We are a blueprint that can be replicated. We've already been sought out by over 20 organizations and jurisdictions eager to adopt our approach, including right here in this city. We've even developed an e-learning platform to help bridge the gap of understanding between those who've experienced reentry and those who have not. Beyond just giving people aid, we tackle systemic issues. And we've had some big wins. We have Florida's first fair chance hiring ordinance, free phone calls from the county jail, and an end to discretionary jail please. So we have reduced recidivism, keeping people out of cages and money in the community. There is a long road ahead, but as the experts on the ground with our strong connections across the south and beyond, just income is now poised for growth. Daring to income puts people coming out of incarceration like I once did and charge of our own destinies. And as it turns out, we do know what we're doing. Thank you for listening. Kevin, thank you so much for the presentation. It's clear how impactful this is on individual people. I'm wondering to scale up nationally though, it seems pretty resource intensive. Can you talk about how you plan to do that? Yeah, absolutely. So the way we look at it is local initiative cities are like laboratories for broader national policy. So by continuing to show the effectiveness of this work and the fact that it's spreading, other cities are now eager to duplicate this work, we can start to build a broader case for how this is actually effective in a more wise use of public resources. So we're starting on a local level and improving, sort of approving ground to then contribute to the larger national conversation. And one thing we think that really makes this unique is the fact that the money is no strings attached for a lot of people in incarceration. There's so much compliance, control, constriction, even support you may get after release. It tends to be a bit of a caveat. We will support you if you check this box. This has none of that. Our money is 100% no strings attached and people have really identified with that sense of that agency. I feel like I'm actually being honored and trusted and it's allowed people to have more capacity to show up to county commission meetings, city commission meetings and actually start to participate in more like civic engagement. So we see this as starting small with ripples that could be especially profound nationally. Yeah, one more round of applause for all five panelists if we could. And as they get up, we're going to go backstage. So a round of applause for our judges for their work. We're going to go backstage and deliberate and discuss. And while we do that, we are privileged to introduce to you two leaders in the criminal justice space. Jolene Foreman is the chief program officer at the Just Trust. You can come out Jolene. And Ken Oliver is the vice president of Checker and the executive director of Checker Foundation. Come on out. And these are two people who have spent a lot of time thinking about the challenges, the opportunities and the direction of the criminal justice field. So because they're both expert, we don't even need a moderator. We're just going to have a fireside chat with the two of them to talk about where they see the field going and how this can fit in and be part of it. And you'll see me in a few minutes. Thank you. Take it away. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. What a great set of entrepreneurs creating some innovative solutions for criminal justice reform in the United States. I just wanted to have everybody give one more round of applause for these people. So first I'd like to, my name is Ken Oliver and I'd like to introduce a friend of mine, Jolene, who's a leader in this space, and have her tell you just a little bit about the work that she's done and what brought her to the work and why, after you do that introduction, why this work is important to support entrepreneurs and get more social investment into entrepreneurs and criminal justice reform. Thank you, Ken. I'm Jolene Foreman. I'm the chief program officer of the Just Trust. We are an organization that is 100% dedicated to aligning, scaling, and deploying resources to the criminal justice reform advocacy ecosystem. So we received a $350 million historic startup investment to work extremely hard to help build a new vision for criminal justice, one that works harder to keep people out of the system than to keep them in. And these innovative ideas that we heard today are some of those key solutions. So we first and foremost fund advocacy. We fund criminal justice reform advocacy to help reduce and like right size the scale of the criminal justice system. We do that nationally and we do that in states like Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. And that's just the first step in the process. We are experiencing a shrinking philanthropic field across the board right now. And so it means that it's harder to pass those types of reforms than ever. So we need more investment, but we also need investments that take those solutions all the way through to the end. So let's say in Alabama, we're working on a decarcerative effort right now. We got to make sure that those people that get released from prison who are safely released from prison have the opportunity to thrive, not just survive when they're out. That means programs like the one that you just heard about that offers basic income. So people have the opportunity to get the job training and job placement that they need, which they can't get when they're just released to the streets without the training or education that they deserve while incarcerated. It also means programs like we heard about that actually offer quality job training and education while incarcerated. So those are just a few quick thoughts that I want before I go on more. I'd love to turn it back to Ken to hear a little bit more about you and your initial reaction. I appreciate that. Innovation, entrepreneurship is something very near and dear to my own heart, especially in this space. When I first came home after serving 24 years in a California prison, almost nine of those in solitary confinement, I entered into a reentry house in Berkeley, California that mirrored the prison environment. The conditions were horrific. I was moved into a five bedroom house with 17 individuals living there bunk bed stacked on top of each other because it was a pay for play model at $5,000 ahead to get as many people in the house as possible. I really started to think what freedom looked like and I started to think about what reentry looked like and what it should look like and how to support folks who were reintegrating into the community after serving 10, 15, 20, 30 years in some cases. After a brief stand as a policy director, I started thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship and how could we change the system and partnered with the state of California and the legislature to build out a $30 million model that was based on tech training and reskilling and upskilling justice impact with people and working with employers to teach them how to bring in change management for fair chance employees, et cetera. I'm near and dear to all these entrepreneurs. It's an affair of the heart. It's hard work, but it's necessary work. There was a number up there that I hope was telling to everybody here in the audience and that was that $1.2 million, $1.2 trillion of investment that America makes in the carceral system per year in this country. That includes police officers. That includes court systems. That includes mass incarceration at state and federal prison level. And so when we think about investment, right, to counterbalance the $1.2 trillion with a T, investment is needed from the philanthropic level to support solutions that are going to build healthier communities and restore lives. So for me, investing in people over profits and punishment is something that's desperately needed in this space. I think there was a statistic up there. There's 80 million people in America that have a rest record. The Justice Department says that's going to be 100 million people by 2030, which is 36% of the American workforce. And so when we think about the future of work and we think about the future of economic growth in this country, we need to change the paradigm and the model of this notion of civil death, where we're stopping people from being able to be successful once they have made a mistake or a poor choice in their life and allow them to rebuild their own lives and their communities' lives. Can you talk a little bit more about the need for private investment to create those second chances that you were just talking about? Sure. So the philanthropic community typically hasn't been big on post-incarceration issues. So everyone talks about pre-incarceration or what happens during incarceration. We talk about defund. We talk about abolition. We talk about advocacy. And all those things are amazing and needed. But what is not talked about as often is what happens after we're successful doing all those things. Like people are going back to their communities. People are going back to the same circumstances that in many cases led them to prison to begin with. And what it is is it's a failure in our part to recognize that the number one driver of mass incarceration and recidivism is poverty. And when people don't have access to, when people don't have access to basic needs, that's all everybody wants, right? Everyone wants to be able to take care of their kids and pay rent and be able to get transportation and those types of things. When you don't have access, then there's all these symptoms that grow out of that soil, right? That result in mass incarceration, over-policing, et cetera. And I tell people often that like I've never met a person no matter where they come from, right? No matter what circumstances that if you, if you give them a livable wage job, restore dignity and pride and ownership, that they didn't stay off the streets. Like I just don't know anybody that's not done that. And so really for me, my first foray into getting an investment was with the state. But I tell often I share with private philanthropists across the country that we need to invest and work for solutions. There's many symptoms that grow out of some of these things we're talking about. But the number one thing in my mind is work and access to the middle class economy and economic mobility. So we need to invest in rescaling and upskilling programs. We need to find ways where we can partner with state governments, the private sector, and philanthropy to create these solutions for folks that the prison system is not designed to create. We need to look at workforce housing solutions. We need to look for universal basic income solutions. And we can't do that alone. The state can't carry that burden by themselves. The federal government can't carry that burden by themselves. And that's why there's such a huge need from philanthropy to invest in these entrepreneurs and invest in solutions that ultimately are going to have a huge, huge ROI, maybe not in the VC sense, but in the community and society sense, there's a tremendous drain on the economy. There's a tremendous absence of billions of dollars that aren't pouring into our local economies and are draining us tax wise for these safety nets and these mass incarceration policies. And I know you guys do a lot of this work as well. And so I'd love for you to be able to talk a little bit about why this is important on the pre-incarceration side. During incarceration, you guys do a lot of clean slate stuff. So I'd love for you to talk a little bit about what the Just Trust has done. And I know CZI, who was the predecessor to the Just Trust, did so much work in California. And for those of us from California, I just really want to thank what you and Anna have done at CZI before you guys transitioned to the Just Trust. So thank you for the work you guys have done. So we are largely focused on funding the advocacy ecosystem. So the folks that are working tirelessly to help reduce the number of people entering the system and to help people safely exit. We also at the same time are trying to build up solutions that will make a that will really transform what the justice system looks like. Solutions that prevent people from entering the system in the first place, such as pre-trial restorative justice, diversion and deflection and community violence prevention and intervention. And those solutions have been around for a long time and they are largely proven, but they're not always proven with like RCTs, which is often like with kind of traditional empirical research studies, which is often what the government needs to scale these solutions to the level where they could replace much of the existing criminal justice system. And so this is a place where philanthropy and private investment can really work hand in hand. It's an opportunity for private investors to test these innovative solutions that prevent people from entering the system in the first place, that dramatically reduce gun violence, that keep communities safer, help create tracks to employment, help communities really thrive and make them more functional and help community members feel safer in them. So then the government can invest and really replicate and scale them nationally at the level that we need the government ultimately to do. Philanthropy and private investors aren't going to do this on their own, but what they can do is they can demonstrate proof of concept. So that's kind of on the front end because we're really focused on what we call our community safety solutions program that is really stemming the flood of people entering, but we work along the whole spectrum of the criminal justice system. We invest in back-end solutions to like the Clean Slate Initiative that automates record clearance for people with past convictions. And, you know, for example, one of the early campaigns when we were still incubated at CZI before we spun out and became the Just Trust, one of the early campaigns was supporting the work in Utah, and I'm not sure if Nicole Sudbury is in the room right now or not. I see her waving. She was instrumental in like inside government being a huge advocate for passing that law, and that law did so much to restore dignity to people with past criminal records and create pathways to getting jobs and employment, but it didn't fill the whole gap. So Noella's actually a Dream.org fellow for her public benefit organization called RASA, and they actually take that policy that needed to be done through advocacy and through philanthropic dollars and be passed in the legislature, and they're now going and clearing people's records that were left behind, the people that fell through the cracks of that system, so that more people can get jobs and thrive post-incursion. Yeah, that was amazing work. Can we give it up for her? Thank you. I guess I'll just chime in and talk a little bit about also the work that we do at the Checker Foundation and at Checker, which is kind of counterintuitive to most people when I tell them that Checker is like the leading background check company in America. They're like, Ken, what are you doing over at the background check company? The interesting thing about Checker is they're the biggest fair chance employer in the state of California. We have over 60 formerly incarcerated people that are working in our tech office right down the street. And it's really amazing the founders of the company, being in the background check space, they saw the disparate impact, especially on Black and Brown, formerly incarcerated people with records and really wanted to change the narrative. And so they started that not by talking about it, which is really impressive to me. They actually just started by doing it. They didn't advocate. They didn't look for an op-ed piece or any PR. They just hired somebody that just got out of prison after doing 20 years. And they iterated. They had some mistakes. They didn't understand language. But then they doubled down and hired a second person and then a third and then a fifth. And now we're at 5% of our workforces, formerly incarcerated people. So at the foundation, what we do is we fund nonprofit organizations for the most part who are involved with workforce development. And so we understand that apprenticeship models, paid internship models, reskilling and upskilling is the pathway to economic mobility. And that's our major goal is how do we get people who have traditionally been marginalized out of the economy and get them pathwayed to middle class jobs? Only because we've seen the results at Checker. They've hired over 70 people lifetime and we've only had like two people leave. And that's because they got promotions at other companies. And so, you know, these, these folks have shown a tremendous amount of loyalty. They've shown a tremendous amount of reskilling and learning and development while they're at the company. In fact, at Checker, the former incarcerated people that we have promote 60% faster and farther than people who are coming out of Stanford and Berkeley at this tech company. So it's really, it's really a nod to showing that when you get people access to play in different playgrounds and access to work and you have an inclusive environment in your workplace that people thrive and they do well and they contribute to their local economies and to their own families. So that's some of the work that we do on the workforce side because we think that's a major spoke in the wheel of decarceration policy, right? The way that you decarcerate is by giving people access to work and to provide for themselves and some economic mobility. That number alone about promotion was just so exciting to hear. I just want to pause on that for one moment and give it another round of applause. Thank you. Speaking of decarcerative policies, the advocacy ecosystem nationally has been incredibly successful in the last 15 years, but this movement is still pretty new and it needs and would benefit from more innovation and something really special and unique about the social capital model is that it allows for more innovation. It allows for more experimentation and creativity and it allows for thinking kind of beyond just the legislative solutions and so I'm eager to learn more. I'm new to this space and to hear how kind of traditional philanthropy and this type of innovation can work hand in hand to really help decarcerate like you were just talking about Ken and help people thrive on the back end so that we have a positive feedback loop instead of the negative feedback loop of people being released not being set up for success and then looping back into the system not because they don't want to be free but because they don't have the resources to stay out. 100% I mean the way that I approach this work and us at checker.org approach the work is we basically feel like our theory of change is based on three kind of flywheels of investment opportunity that can make this thing work and the number one thing is the re-skilling and up skilling some of which you saw some of the entrepreneurs talked about here today Jessica with the coding program that they have and there's many other organizations that are investment worthy who are investing heavy dollars in re-skilling and upskilling for folks that's very important because there's a skills gap that the prison system in this country doesn't look like a college campus it looks like a warehouse and so they are not teaching market driven skill sets in the prison environment they expect people to serve large amounts of time and then get out to a place where the whole digital landscape has changed like people ask me like what kind of skill sets do people have and I said you know most of my homies um have never seen google drive they've never turned on a zoom call they've never turned on a computer or a laptop before right and so how do we bridge those gaps where even in the automotive industry you need computer literacy right how do we do that um that's a very important imperative and probably the first flywheel in this matrix the second one is employers and to be perfectly honest employers need to be re-skilled and upskilled on how to source talent and how to get away from this idea that you have to go to UC Berkeley in order to be worthy of a job right especially in the tech sector in the knowledge-based economy um we really spend a lot of time working with employers and we think employers need to be worked with to fold this into their broader D&I strategy most companies at this point assuming that we're all growing up as companies have a digital I mean a diversity and inclusion strategy this is an important piece of it and I tell folks all the time that you know if you exclude 80 million people who have a record away from your workforce then that's not really an inclusion policy it sounds like an exclusion policy to me so we feel like investment in that area to invest in educating employers in corporate America to make a new bottom of the bell curve is important and that's there's a lot of great organizations that are doing that work and then the third piece of it is policy because policy can undergird both of those first two wheels right how can I just met with the governor of um Indiana and you know talk to him about how can we create more public and private partnerships right how can we get government to support employers with insurance policies right negatives and hiring indemnity policies things that can give employers incentive to take that leap because we've created this narrative you know we've created this like a scare tactic narrative for the last 50 or 60 70 years um and then also policy can support the reskilling efforts of folks right it's one of the things we did when we partnered with the government has talked about a new model that gives people marketable skill sets right we can't expect people to pathway into the middle class economy if the if the skill deficit is as wide as it is um so those are some of the investable areas that I see when it comes to post incarceration I know there are a lot on the front end with what you do so maybe you can talk a little bit about some of the investment areas that you see especially since you run such a big fund um what those areas might be for folks so first before I say what they might be I want to say what they shouldn't be I think one place that private investment has really scaled in the serena is in private prisons and in state control whether it's like monitoring people with ankle bracelets or through biometrics and I think that that is that is what it is but there it's limited in in its creativity and its ability to actually solve the solutions none of those things actually make us safer what makes us safer is preventing crimes it is um investing in accountability and repairing harm much like those kind of front end solutions that I was telling you were invested in and so there are opportunities for the private sector to scale innovative ways to work in communities to advance these models of safety and prevention and healing that actually do help community safety and well-being and create a criminal justice system that reflects kind of the values that we all want to see in the society yeah for sure that's amazing thank you for that um I think we have coming up you ready thank you okay come on I think that's our time we're going to get pulled off um like sandmen at the Apollo it's our time it's time for the judges to come out with their results so appreciate you guys spending some time with us in this fireside chat i'm a round of applause for joe lean and ken thank you guys all right so for you know for those of us who joined late you know this is at the culmination of a year-long process uh the five finalists I think we all they all did great I just want to use this opportunity to remind everybody that we talk about investing in these ideas and people like this we've got investment that can come from people in this room we also have 90 billion dollars that this country spends on prisons jails probation and parole we think that that money should be going towards the people that you heard from today not the people that are causing harm in our prison system and so that's really our goal when we talk about justice innovation I also want to give a couple thank yous uh you know it's always uh the people who aren't on the program who do all the work right so I want to give a shout out to Michael Bernarding our justice innovation manager who's been running this process for the last year I also want to take a moment to thank carrot carrot is the vendor that runs prize competitions across the country in fact uh the world and they were instrumental partners with us from start to finish so thank you carrot for making this happen and of course thank you to socap for having us this is just a delight to be on this stage so uh I'm gonna welcome out to share a little bit about what comes next and how you can work with us the ceo of dream.org thank you so much for coming out I can't believe I'm in the position where we're giving away a million dollars as being a struggling non-profit for my entire career this feels really exciting and the reason yes right and the reason why we did this is this field of innovation and justice it is a new brand new field and at dream.org we want to dream we want to think what's possible we want a future that works for everybody and so being able to ignite some of these dreams um it's beautiful I'm really excited that y'all are here with me today I have the envelope with the winners but before I announce I want to um ask all of y'all that are interested and being part of this movement to stay after we can't be in this room so we're gonna go right across the way there's a stairway that goes up to a beautiful city view I think it might be called city view walkway where all of the people you heard pitched today will be there to mingle and we will be there the dream.org staff we want to invite you into this brand new field because there are so many ideas out there just the applications we got in were amazing and these five winners um they've already won some support but they're gonna need a lot more support to grow and so my call to action for y'all that come over is one be their champions for the folks who haven't won the folks who have won give them the introductions funding is definitely acceptable I'm sure and help us champion this field being viable and important especially when we're talking about social impact investing and to just join us our dream.org staff will be there and we would love to invite you in and build what's next we'd love to do the prize again if we have funding but we also know that we're building to something bigger which Yanis has been talking about that radical transformation okay join us cross the way yeah and now the big moments uh in in no specific order the three winners who are going to get the uh $250,000 each the first winner is I've always wanted to open an envelope like this unlocked labs this second winner is justice text and the third winner is free cap financial uh and one more round of applause for all of our finalists our judges and everybody thank you for being here please join us after


YouTube was cracking man, today we are back on Dreams with some more learning with pibby videos because they're just darn amazing and I can't wait for learning with pibby to air on Adult Swim. I really hope it pulls through and they get to make a TV series out of it. I did find a handful of learning with pibby stuff on Dreams so let's go ahead and begin with our first one which is a little audio visual or a short whatever you wanna call it and it's coming learn with pibby trailer in 3D. Alright, well let's begin with this Learning with pibby, learning is so fun We like to have fun and we love to have Learning with pibby Whoa! Yo! Sorry BunBun, I'll always keep you safe I've been in the chat for BunBun That was pretty awesome, you guys have to keep in mind that these are like fan made creations and they try to work with the best that they got and yeah, it was pretty cool for a fan made Oh, this one looks cool, let's go for adventure Funkin with pibby licks song Oh!  That was pretty dope and a little scary I don't know what happened to Jake there I mean to Finn, he obviously got corrupted by the evil corruption Okay, there is, oh there's a shaggy showcase Oh, here we got shaggy Okay, now we got this pibby knife funkin trailer I am sorry, but this mod will be delayed Okay, let's check it out Seems like it's a trailer, I'm not too sure what it is yet Oh Okay, I guess it's just a showcase for now They might work on a game or something in the future Right, I like the concept, pretty cool Okay, so I did find this Kermit is corrupted by demons It doesn't have to do with pibby, but it is like corrupted related So I figured why not, let's check it out I mean, it's Kermit, it should be freaking awesome Why hello there, Kermit, looking fancy It's my easy being green Having to spend each day the color of the leaves What have you done, Kermit? Or what are you gonna do? When I think it might be nicer Be in red or yellow Okay, this got dark, very quick Remember kids, don't summon demon lord alex jones Oh, or else Yo, what the heck was that dude? Kermit just committed a crime Yes, and I did find this take a break adult swim parody This has nothing to do with pibby as well But it is related to adult swim Which is where pibby might err on So let's check this one out Since it is related to adult swim And it's green track Bonnie, come on, we have to see this Oh, this is cool It's like that two-talk dress It's creative, send out a text Nice All right, so since I did run out of games And like little shorts on dreams Iron, we are on YouTube on Paul Wille Slappy's channel We're gonna be reacting to some of his pibby videos So he does have plenty full for us So let's begin learning with pibby, but it's disney Oh It's me Mike Bozelski Maui Okay, that was definitely strange Let's move on to pibby, but it's WB animations I can't wait to see what characters he grabs Oh WB animations Oh Bugs, buddy Big Chungus Oh, he got corrupted Dude, they should do a big Chungus one That would be epic Now we got learning with pibby But it's Homer Okay, we did watch a Simpsons one This one might be different Good ol' Homer Leaf on the job Savage Homer Dude, he didn't fit in the corruption Oh, that was cool I did not expect the intro to be corrupted Oh, it's the meme Dude, they took the Homer meme Where he like walks back slowly into the bush Okay Okay, now we got the learning with pibby But it's with Nintendo switch characters Oh my god, Paul, I love you, man This guy's doing like each universe Can't get tired of this song It's so catchy Ay I discovered a whole other one Kirby Hello Mario Luigi I said links, links Hey, that's the ultimate one All right, you guys, then last but not least There is a piggy, but it's huggy-wuggy Let's check this one out This should be epic All right, let's get it Did I see this like a million times already? Oh, there it is I feel like this matches, bro Like it's so perfect All they did in show corrupt and huggy-wuggy Come on, man All right, you corrupted human lords Well, that is the end And I can't wait for pibby to wear Dude, I'm gonna keep doing pibby video Till they actually turn it into a show, man We should do like a petition for it To get its own TV show airing on Adult Twin Thank you all for watching Thank you all for the amazing support as always And I will see you all in the next one


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Good evening, everyone Good evening Thank you My name is Jeanine Ventura, and I'm the assistant commissioner for interagency Collaboration and innovation at the New York City Department for the aging I'm pleased to welcome all of you today in recognition of older Americans month Which takes place in May as well as introduce you to the work of the cabinet for older New Yorkers The theme for this year for older Americans month is aging unbound providing an opportunity to recognize the rich diversity and aging experiences and Focus on how we as a community can combat age of stereotypes and The cabinet for older New Yorkers works to do exactly that every day Address the diverse experiences and needs among older adults and fight ageism Formed in September of last year the cabinet is an interagency Collaborative established to realize and institutionalize age-inclusive New York City through structural Legislative and systemic solutions more than 20 city agencies comprise the cabinet for older New Yorkers Covering various facets of services and resources including health housing public safety Social services and transportation You might have seen the op-ed in the Daily News this week kicking off older Americans month underscoring the need for the work of the cabinet to advance and age inclusive New York City The cabinet pushes systems change among services and access practices policies and legislation and innovation Today we will highlight several of the initiatives launched under the cabinet these initiatives cover education intergenerational work health and pedestrian safety So first as the anti-ageism movement starts with education Through the cabinet for older New Yorkers New York City public schools piloted an anti-ageism resource guide in 13 high schools in Brooklyn South The guide provides educational resources and tools on how students the next generation of our city's leaders can recognize ageism understand its impact and serve as change agents to advance inclusion about 1350 students are participating in this pilot reaching their families. Yes. Whoo. That's amazing That is impact and that is reach their families and communities through anti-ageism school-based education Now I would like to welcome principal Natasha Jack of the school for human rights in Brooklyn to talk more about her school's Experience since the resource guide was piloted earlier this year Good evening everyone. It's such an honor to be here as an educator To speak to you about the work that my young adults are doing at my high school And so according to the Brooklyn High School superintendent Michael prayer the most valued members of our communities are elderly And we must connect to our elders This is where the pilot initiated for the 13 high schools of Brooklyn South as a principal of an innovative high school in southern Brooklyn I understood the call and eagerly joined the pilots Our mission at the high school is centered on empowering our students to be innovative critical thinkers, but ultimately productive change agents of society We inspire to have all of our graduates be motivated life-loving learners who are equipped to be and build a more just and equitable world It was fundamental for me to have all 72 of my seniors engaged in this work And so our students have integrated the pilot into their economics course And my students are running a student-led podcast every Friday where they are talking about deep issues that impact older adults But also older adults, and we are really combating the last ism. We like to say of ageism The pilot for us promotes the understanding and it promotes empathy learning about ageism is helping my students understand the Experiences of older adults. This is further helping my seniors and my scholars develop a more positive attitude Towards aging and older adults which will improve the intergenerational Relationships according to one of my seniors Devonte He says I have experienced ageism at my job with older co-workers, and I didn't even know there was a name for it But I have also treated older people like my aunts my grandmother differently sometimes calling them old-fashioned because of their age, but this too is also a problem The pilot encourages critical thinking and fusing ageism into the economics course Intentionally is promoting critical thinking and is helping my students develop a more nuanced understanding of some of the complex social issues related to ageism such as credit Finances social security. This is helping my students to identify and challenge ages stereotypes and biases According to one of the teachers leading the pilot She says ageism is the last ism that has been allowed to be prevalent in society with no real outrage or pushback I think the only way to combat is to bring different age groups together to see both their successes and their struggles to build Comminality which will help tear down these stereotypes It forces this sense of social responsibility for our young adults Let's encourage and empower our scholars to take action to address age-related biases and discrimination So at the school for human rights as a principal we plan to go deeper We plan to look for more partners and we plan to continue to extend the learning and provide a platform to teach our students to learn About ageism and how they can help promote a more positive and inclusive society for all people of all ages So I thank you for listening Thank you for having me here today Thank you principal Jack and exactly what she just mentioned is what we'll be talking about in the next initiative In terms of sharing the struggles sharing the successes to build that community So the next initiative led by the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development Continues the anti-ageism movement by building community intergenerational connections through shared New York stories My New York story is a program that seeks to develop a network for community leadership problem-solving and support Grounded in multi-generational work and understanding with about a hundred participants including older adults and youth Across ten New York City housing authority development city-wide with co-located cornerstone programs and older adult centers Storytelling is used to cultivate intergenerational cohesion in these communities This initiative aims to dismantle stereotypes through intergenerational Engagement and relationship building and participants survey so far show positive changes in perception I would now like to introduce Jamari Reynolds who is a high school student participating in the new my New York story program Hello everyone My name is Jamari Reynolds and I am in 10th grade At Lehman High School in the Bronx, and I just turned 16 last week I've been a part of a my New York story Program at Eastchester not for a really long time, but I've been there enough to know like what we talk about and And through this program I've learned a lot from my older adults and my peers in Small groups we like to talk about our different life experiences like what they went through through school and what how What they went through during school and while I go through during school now so we compare differences The older adults shared how different education is how different education is compared to when they were in school and how I was Mentioned what it's like to travel to school like how MC is now from before. It was definitely a lot slower back I think I think we can definitely all agree This program definitely also told me about ageism. I learned about how it definitely exists in New York City and how lots of older adults go through it and They experience this oppression very often daily weekly monthly Occasionally I Also learned how to recognize it and how to address it which is really one of the biggest lessons I took away I enjoy being a part of this program and sharing stories with adults with other adults in my community I look forward to more exchanges with my older adults and more about my neighbors and learning their history. Thank you Thank You Jamari So now please welcome Mildred Gore who is a my New York story participant as well at the same site Good afternoon everybody Thank you very much for having us here and I'd like to Let you know that my name is Mildred Gore I am a member of Rain Eastchester Adult Center in the Bronx Where I'm also the secretary for the advisory Council my husband and I have been members of Rain older adult Center since 2014 when I retired and This and this June will be celebrating 24 years of a marriage Thank you. Thank you. I am also participating in my story program The stories we share highlight the Harlem experience We talked about Harlem then and now and the rich history of the neighborhood We shared stories about our legendary Apollo theater and the iconic Artists who got their start or were featured on the stage Apollo is a cultural institution, which we are excited to talk about From this experience. I actually Was very surprised about how kind our youth are to the older adults We hit it off as soon as we all met one another. We laughed we shared stories It has been a wonderful con it is wonderful to connect and relate to one another through this program and Just to be together as human beings and neighbors in the same community. I Have I have now forged a friendship with youth in my community, which I might not have had outside of this program Sharing stories and interacting with youth has changed my perspective on younger Generation and I have learned from them and vice versa. I am happy to be part of this experience I look forward to celebrating and reflecting on how they will collectively grow together And I wanted to just outline one special thing that let us all know that the youth and the elders Can be together my husband's 80 years old and he's on tiktok I'm not on tiktok and the young people had a laugh about that So thank you all very much. God bless you and hopefully this program will go forward. It is extremely needed So sidebar I'm so excited that Mildred shared that because she shared that earlier and I was totally gonna include that if she Wasn't going to include that so what I won't share is her husband's handle because The youth definitely took an interest in that so you thought you heard the punch line. There's a better punch line So to empower aging in place frontline health professionals recognize that older adult patients and caregivers may need Additional support and resources beyond health care to maintain their wellness the cabinet worked to address this by instituting a training and Conducting feedback sessions to raise awareness about existing community-based services Available for older New Yorkers so far more than 200 frontline health professionals were trained from the city's public health core comprised of community health workers from New York City Health and Hospitals and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene geriatricians and social workers also from H&H and DOHMH and the mayor's public engagement units public health educators I now would like to introduce Leticia Cisneros a community health worker Who's part of the public health core in adult medicine at Health and Hospitals Woodhull who took the training to share her takeaways? Hello, my name is Leticia Cisneros and I work for the Public Health Corp at the New York City Health Hospitals as a community health workers We work with a wide range of patients with a combination of medical and social needs Other patients can face challenges including scheduling, getting to appointments, food and financial insecurity and for in need for social support We help patients connect to their medical providers by setting up and showing them how to use my portal chart Assisting with scheduling appointments, arranging Transportation and helping them applying for government benefits and other resources It can be hard to find social support for older people Many need in-home support not only to assist with their medical needs and household activities, but also for a companionship to combat social isolation Undocumented patients have an even more difficult time getting these type of resources and support Our limiter in terms for the benefits that they can receive We found that the training it's been helpful with identifying resources to provide home care assistance to the aging population For example, one of four patients. It's a 60 years old woman With multiple health issues who recently lost her husband and emotional support Who used to help her a lot? We perform a home visit help We perform the visit home visit and we that make us to understand the social support that she needs And we was able to keep up with her She was unable to keep up with her medications and Regiment performing activities for daily living due to being unaware and feeling depressed We all know how hard it is to have a loss We was able to walk her through the process of getting home health aid services and Then she was approved for daily services and now she's feeling more stable. Thank you all Thank You Leticia now, please welcome Natasha Macintosh white community health worker Supervisor who works with Leticia at Woodhull to also share good evening cabinet members and all NYC agencies I think you would all agree with me that the word for tonight is collaboration and just ensuring that our aging population remains connected to resources in the community and that all Other departments are helping them to continue to remain connected to those resources That's one of the main things that we do here at health and hospitals is just Ensuring that they are able to navigate the various systems that they are connected to once they graduate our program that Leticia was speaking about one of the resources that we learned about during the training that we took with the older with the Services of the older adults that was especially helpful was the availability for services of case management in the home for the patient so that Patients and the older population can remain in home While they continue to age In general just remaining Just continuing to collaborate with the Department of Aging and learning about a range of available resources that we can continue to connect this Population to has been extremely helpful for us Our team here at health and hospitals is always learning about newer resources But sometimes it can be difficult to find those resources And just to have the option of connecting our patients to and it's just important for us to have some sort of Assistance to turn to so just the fact that we have the Department of Aging to reach out to has been super helpful for us Thank you so much Thank You Natasha Age inclusive older adult pedestrian planning is imperative as older New Yorkers age 60 plus comprised less than 20 percent of the city's Population yet account for more than 45 percent of pedestrian fatalities The New York City Department of Transportation is leading walkability audits and hosting feedback sessions with older adult center members Living in areas slated for vision zero work. I would now like to introduce Michael Fandell Member of the Carter burden luncheon club to talk about being part of the recent walking audit led by DOT Okay, good evening everybody My name is Michael Fandell And I've been a member of the Carter burden Center on East 74th Street for over 10 years. I Also retired from the NYPD after 20 years and was a New York City substitute teacher for 35 years My very first New York City marathon Was with its founder Fred LeBeau was in remission from brain cancer on Excuse me on marathon day The entire city becomes a room Where people locally internationally and from all walks of life share this space Similarly last week When the New York City Department of Transportation led a walkability tour in the neighborhood with myself and other older adult Center members every corner we turned and each area we covered became a room The room was filled with good feelings Flowing and deep appreciation for the strategies applied to enhance safety For pedestrians as well as bicyclists and motorists It reminded me of the famous beloved song from the Broadway musical South Pacific Some enchanted evening You may find a stranger across a crowded room touring the neighborhood and Providing feedback as community residents who walk these blocks and streets every day Help to inform how we can better navigate this crowded room and ensure we and all the strangers We may encounter as pedestrians remain safe. I am grateful to the Department of Transportation for leading the initiative engaging other older adults for input and enriching our experience while walking observing and relating I Appreciated the many more eyes and ears in the group during the walkability tour Recognizing that visuals are important realizing you have to make an estimate based on the count the light and observing the traffic calming devices The experience was memorable memorable and rewarding and before I say thank you I'll do an ad lib You knock my socks off. Thank you Thank You Michael after working with Michael for several days. I had a feeling he was gonna close with a joke, so I appreciated that one So so thank you and thank you to all of the speakers for sharing their Experiences of being part of this cabinet work on the ground And we also just recently launched a website at nyc.gov forward slash cabinet for older New Yorkers I would also like to express deep gratitude to all of the cabinet member agencies for their work every day In service of older New Yorkers and ensuring we truly are a city inclusive of all ages And while this concludes this portion of the program, please stick around as the mayor will be Sharing and speaking shortly. Thank you. I am deputy mayor and Williams Isam. I'm the deputy mayor Thank you for health and human services Which means that I have the best job in the city So there is a lot of interesting things about me I'm getting ready to celebrate my 31st wedding anniversary with my husband My 30 year old daughter just got married. I have three kids. I live in Harlem There's all these great things but the best thing about me is that I have had the pressure of most of my life to Take care of and to love and to live with right now my 92 year old mom miss Edna so Loving miss Edna means that I understand this issue more than you can understand right this woman came here from Trinidad and Tobago She was a single mom her the foundation that she has let and led for my brothers and I Really is the light that is the future of all the most beautiful things in my life And I know each one of us in here and so now is I'm a caretaker of her It just makes me filled up more and makes me know that this part of my life and to have her with me Makes me a better person a better wife a better mother and a better deputy mayor We all know that we have people in our life older adults who do that for us And this is why this issue is so important at this moment So when the commissioner came to me and said that she wanted to have a cabinet for older adults I couldn't have been more excited and so my goal tonight is just to thank you to tell you why this Interagency effort of all of us a whole of government effort because that's what the mayor always wants from us is to cut out Those silos and see people for who they are and see people for their humanity And so tonight that's what this is a celebration of so with that I think the most important thing that I want to do is I want to bring up our fearless leader and the person Who has had the vision for what New York City older adults should experience? And so it is my pleasure to bring up the commissioner of the Department of Agents. I call her LCV Commissioner Cortez Vasquez Lorraine Thank you. Thank you. I Was gonna say I'm LCV. Oh Thank you. Welcome to Gracie mansion Let me start by first thanking Mayor Eric Adams for opening his home to all of you tonight and Because he's a strong advocate for older workers and for older And Dorothy's son one of the ways that I one of I'm ad-libbing now, wait a minute But he always when he talks he always talks about his mother and how she was so central to his Well-being and all everything that he talks about it's about his mother and that was the insight that we had into how strong and advocate He is for older adults. So This is not just words for him. This is commitment and passion lifelong commitment and passion When he was borough president, I saw firsthand how he worked with older adults Norx and other of Centers and he helped Brooklyn Knights place a great program called age-friendly in place Brooklyn was a leader in age-friendly and we're really proud because just recently we Unveiled all of the work that has been done that he did in Brooklyn under age-friendly But now as mayor, I'm so proud to work with him to advance These practices across the city to create an age-inclusive city He has seen that vision as you saw during the presentations that weren't they amazing those presentations of those young people and older adults? one way or another Every agency has an effect on the lives of older adults and Mayor Adams Made a commitment to bring them all together And I never forget his words during when we launched the cabinet when he launched the cabinet Which was I'm counting on you to tell me what to do to make this a better city for older adults And those were his words So he created this cabinet to break silos as the deputy mayor said to identify gaps Streamline processes as he always says Collaborate and he always says upstream strategies and then to recommend legislation and policy agendas Making New York the model age-inclusive city with over 20 agencies on board the representative of those agencies every day keep us safe housed educated healthy and rich our cultural experiences and Also, you can see that the aging cabinet is the storyboards here and some of them are here So I want to thank them I want to thank my colleague and friend for more than 35 years that he's gonna be a grandfather And he's still here So you if every one of the members of this cabinet make this work possible Each one of them has made a commitment has taken the mayor's words to heart Since its creation in 70 in 1975 department for the age and relied on Community-based agencies to do this work. We don't do this work directly. We rely on partnerships today Many of those are still with us and our partners on the ground. Why? They know the neighborhood. They know the community. They know older adults. They know the music that they love They know the food that they want they know the dances that they want to do They know what they are and so we could not do this without our community partners Older adults are going to start outnumbering the younger population and We know that it is not a either or City, this is a city of all and so what we need to do is to make sure that we imagine a city That works for both and some of the projects that you talked we you heard this evening were about just that The experiences shared today are important The work would not have been possible without the support of the first deputy mayor She embraced this when she first heard about the cabinet Which was just created seven months ago and never would this be possible with the steady hand and support of our DM and She is a strong And of course none of this is possible with the man who lives in his this house and Who had the vision to go from age friendly to age inclusive? It is my honor to bring to you mayor Eric Adams Thank thank you so much and really thank all of you and the long friendship and relationship I have had with the commissioner for so many years and As I we were running for office I knew I had my commission of the Department of Aging and you know She was trying to think she was going to retire and I said you're not going anywhere You know you could you could hang that up You you have a job to do and that commitment and being thoughtful It is so important when we look at this cabinet and those of you who are here and part of the cabinet some of our elected officials That are here as well because that report that came out. I think two days ago that talked about the impact of loneliness and It's predeterminates to health and we have been talking about this in without team for a long time How what loneliness does in the equivalence of smoke in several packs of cigarettes a day? And we have to think differently about addressing the issue that many of our older adults are Experiencing, you know, many of them have family members that are no longer there Many of them are shut in for whatever reason they cannot travel It is it was important to me That as the commissioner stated that let's go out and find out from our older adults What it is to navigate this city they were here to make the city what it is and they cannot be Displaced or we cannot create a city that's so hip and cool that we don't understand Those who built the city in the first place and I don't know my mom used to tell me, you know that when I tell her You know, mommy, you know, you need to come in and move him with me. You're 80 something years old She said listen, I don't want you to see when my boo comes over, you know You know, and so let's not kid ourselves our older adults Still want to do things that are enjoyable. They want to go out. They want to be in the theater They want to move around our transportation system They want to learn how to use the various technologies that are available, you know, just because you move slower You are dealing with some ailments. That's because, you know, life has changed It does not mean the energy and the usefulness of one's existence Disappear at the same time and it's our role to make sure that we keep it going And I'll tell you something else as I conclude We need them more than ever Our young people really need that guidance and we have to be extremely Focused and intentional about how do we do an intergenerational Relationship between our young people and our older adults their wisdom is real You know, there's Whatever we are going through they have gone through it may be just a different time in a different moment But it's the same experience and that wisdom that knowledge that nurturing that caring particularly in an environment With many of our young people don't have that foundation at home Many of our oldest adults are really open arms and really want to contribute To the young people and the generations that is coming into being and they want to be active I got beat the other day by some of our older adults on pickleball. They You know, I got on the court thought I was gonna be all good And they looked at each other and they said we gonna wipe the floor with you young man And they did just that You know, so there's some real active things that we can do And so I just really want to thank the commissioner not tired entire team and the entire cabinet of the energy that you're bringing To this conversation and we really want to let the globe see what we are doing She cascaded throughout the entire country that as we progress in years We want to maintain the dignity and respect that we deserve because you know, I have my AAP card so, you know, I Know what it is and finally I want to say thank you to George Holtz who's here from emblem health George has sponsored so many things here We have so many events here and George has rarely been an amazing friend and partner You know, thank you so much for what you have done and what you will continue to do and all the spot Sponsors who participated but again, thank you so much for coming here and being part of this event. Thank you


ey go oh that's a great podcast oh it's free out I'll watch that later and what happens is that later never comes so we're better to keep this to what we've done I think it's a great tribute to everybody that served in the Falklands and and especially well not especially the Royal Marines but in our case you know it's great to hear about the core down there and big credit to you mate big credit for coming and telling your story big credit for surviving and big credit for putting up a scrap we'll we'll take the rest of your life in a part two Molly if that's okay you might want to split this one up into three parts then you can probably do that okay yeah I've got no I love doing this so that's absolutely not a problem there's no real credit to me I was just a naive well 19 because I was 18 just before we went down so I was 19 you know what I think I was 18 I was 19 when I came back I was 18 there you go you for today anyway yeah I don't take credit for that I didn't talk about this for years and years and years because nobody was particularly interested I don't think I'd speak to other bootmechs about it but that was about it but I think having read Sicklemore's book Tony's book and a few of the lads have said to me that somebody said to me just before the reunion you realise that we are further away from the Falklands war that we took part in than we were then than the Falklands war was from D-Day and when you put that into perspective you think that's quite so great but actually I think you're right I think a lot of these although we might have lived these stories I think they are important to capture and I've met been so fortunate to meet so many people from the commandos and D-Day particularly here on the Isle of Wight where I lived there was a lot of them still lived here and basically it sadly passed on now but listen to their stories I could listen to them for hours through all in bad D-App and things like that just phenomenal the things that they did but what is interesting is their fears aren't much different to what my fears were and every other boot max it's not about necessarily dying or fighting it's about being a failure and letting the rest of your lads down that's what stands out to me in all of this maybe that's about the training Yes I said this in a podcast I can't remember which bootnuck I was chatting to but there was a book written and it is the chat was talking about coming back from the Falklands and he's talking about all the camera coming in and all the razzmatazz and the people chucking beer on the buses and I was proud to go there I was proud to fight but most of all I was proud to be a Royal Marine and yeah for sure I think we've captured that tonight Molly thank you Thank you very much Chris I'll let you split it out to three groups Stay on the line so I can thank you properly but massive thanks again mate to everybody at home I hope you've been as engrossed as we have if you could like and subscribe that will really help the channel and we'll see you next time Thank you