Fivio foreign to host annual thanksgiving dinner and giveaway for children with incarcerated parents.
Around the holidays, most artists are in the mood of giving and the week of Thanksgiving, Million Dollar Drive-By, a charity organization which is overseen by Hot 97’s Melissa Gabriel and Foreignside Foundation are partnering once again for another charity drive to give back to underprivileged kids who have incarcerated parents.
Several food sponsors have locked in to help give these kids a Thanksgiving dinner. Also, Daniel’s Leather will be donating 100 jackets to the kids. There will be an estimated 100-200 kids scheduled to attend the event, which is slated for Monday, November 22. Additionally, Fivio Foreign is confirmed to attend the event and spend time with the kids.
The charity that will be receiving the goods and bringing the kids out is Children of Promise.
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Queens lawmaker Ramos, advocates hold panel on the ripple effects of mass incarceration
Advocates and elected officials joined Children of Promise NYC founder and CEO, Sharon Content, to engage in a thought provoking conversation, entitled “Breaking the Chains of Incarceration,” on the racial disparities and trauma inflicted on Black and Brown communities with an outdated criminal justice system.
Content works daily with what she calls “the unseen victims of incarceration,” which are family members who often feel unheard and have a lack of voice regarding criminal justice policies. The open conversation delved into the history behind issues such as economic insecurity, school-to-prison pipeline, and more with Senator Jessica Ramos, CEO and Executive Director of FPWA Jennifer Jones Austin, Founder of Pure Legacee Naquasia Pollard, and CEO and Executive Director of JCCA Ron Richter.
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Awake NY and Vans to Launch Collaboration for Foot Locker
This collaboration is the start of a 16-month partnership between Awake NY and Foot Locker and they plan to release two more Vans projects. In addition to this launch, Awake NY and Foot Locker will make donations to Washington Heights-based Fresh Youth Initiatives supporting low-income immigrant and first-generation children in Northern Manhattan and Children of Promise, NYC.
“It’s not the first time I’m working with Children of Promise,” Baque said. The designer teamed with Nike and Timberland through his community-driven platform Social Studies established with photographer Shaniqwa Jarvis and Something Special Studios, and donated extra shoes from the collaborations to children with Children of Promise.
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New Bronx location and summer camp featured on News12
“School and summer break was hard enough on kids during the coronavirus pandemic, and it was even harder for kids with family members in prison or jail. Children of Promise is an organization that provides free programs to these kids with relatives behind bars.
In previous years, they focused the summer program on fun activities like being outdoors and arts and crafts. But this year because of COVID-19, they really wanted to implement classes like math and reading and hired Department of Education teachers to teach these classes.”
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CPNYC and Miss USA visit highlighted in BKReader
On Wednesday, the Mississippi beauty queen stopped in at Bed-Stuy’s Children of Promise organization to surprise other children with incarcerated parents and share her story.
Children of Promise is a not-for-profit that supports families of imprisoned parents. Since winning Miss USA 2020, Branch has used her platform to raise awareness about the impact mass incarceration has had on young people like herself.
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Miss USA visit to Brooklyn site on amNY
Miss USA 2020 Asya Branch, 23, visited Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn yesterday, July 14, to share her story with children of incarcerated parents and their families about her years growing up with a father incarcerated in prison.
“I wish I had an organization like Children of Promise during my childhood to deal with the trauma of having my father incarcerated for ten years of my life,” said Brand. “I now use my voice and platform to make a difference in the lives of these children and their parents.”
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CPNYC featured on PIX11 Morning News with Miss USA Asya Branch
“More than 105,000 children in New York state have a parent in prison.
Nationwide, that number is about 2.7 million, according to Children of Promise, an organization on a mission to support these children.
Children of Promise founder Sharon Content and Miss USA Asya Branch spoke with PIX11 News about how people can make a difference and help children around the country.”
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PBS News Hour highlights CPNYC therapeutic model
“More than 2.7 million kids in the United States have a parent behind bars. And parental incarceration can be a powerful adverse childhood experience (or ACE), an event in childhood that is potentially traumatic, leading to long-term physical and emotional impacts….’It’s not that the child [of an incarcerated parent] is more likely to commit a crime,’ Content said. ‘It’s the systems in which this child is being raised.’”
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Sharon Content speaks on mentorship for the New York Times
Children of Promise, NYC Founder and President joined other mentorship programs to speak to the importance of mentors for youth during COVID, especially for those we support here at CPNYC.
“I don’t think society understands the impact the virus has created. “Some children don’t have food, or Wi-Fi, or a parent telling them to put on a winter coat.” In the meantime, she continued, “there’s no visitation in the prisons, there are limitations with the phones because more prisoners are on them, and the child is worried that their parent is sick because the #COVID19 rate is so high in prisons.”
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CPNYC featured on TBS's The Last O.G.
To celebrate kicking off the third season of The Last O.G, TBS partnered with Upworthy to Give Back Like an O.G. through a share-to-donate campaign to Children of Promise, NYC,
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CPNYC on the Today Show
Kayla is 7, and her dad is in jail awaiting a prison sentence. She and her mom found understanding and a sense of belonging at Children of Promise, a summer camp and after-school program for kids of incarcerated parents.
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NEWS 12 BROOKLYN | Mentor Program Helps Kids Learn About Bed-Stuy Community
Honoring the deep cultural and historic roots of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a group of five young participants from Project DREAM transformed the gym to a scale model of the neighborhood on Saturday and lead a public tour on five points of interest.
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News 12 | Goosebumps’ author visits children of incarcerated parents
“Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine met with the children of incarcerated parents at the Children of Promise NYC headquarters in Bed-Stuy on Tuesday.
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2018 WOMEN IN HUMAN SERVICES | Hall of Fame
We’re thrilled to announce that Sharon Content, Founder and President of CPNYC, was recently inducted into the Strong Nonprofits for a Better New York Women in Human Services Hall of Fame.
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TODAY SHOW | While Their Parents Serve Time, This Organization Gives Children Hope
Our very own Kayla sat down with the Today Show to discuss her experience of having a father in prison. Watch the video below to hear the incredible story of this resilient 7-year old and learn how CPNYC is supporting her and her family overcome the challenges of parental incarceration.
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CBS NEW YORK | 12-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy Wants to Help Others Beat the Odds
Congratulations to Children of Promise, NYC participant, Legasii Fox, who has been selected to serve on the Kidbox Kids Board of Directors.
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FINANCIAL TIMES | Growing Pains
The Financial Times offers a Special Report on Armani Adams-Smith, resident of Brooklyn and long time participant of Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC).
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Meet the invisible victims of criminal justice: Children
The stigma around families and prison is real, says Sharon Content, who has struggled to support one of her own family members serving a prison sentence. The experience inspired her to start Children of Promise NYC, a nonprofit organization trying to provide a better safety net for families in the prison system and, in turn, break what is too often a generational cycle of incarceration.
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