North Hartford Public Safety Summit
What We’ve Accomplished. What We’re Building. What Comes Next.
Location: Phillips Health Center
2550 Main Street, Hartford, CT
Date: Thursday, April 9
Time: 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
We ask that all attendees arrive early as we begin the evening with a powerful sound healing experience led by Maria del Carmen Rodriguez, MBA of SoulCare Love, LLC. This opening will create space for reflection, grounding, and collective healing as we come together as a community. Food will be served at 5:30pm
Panel Discussion
We Outside This Summer: Community Solutions for Safety and Stability
Hear from leaders working on the frontlines of violence prevention, youth engagement, mental health, and community care:
- Leonard Epps – Brother Carl Hardrick Institute for Violence Prevention
- Jaquelyn Santiago – COMPASS Youth Collaborative
- LaShawn Robinson – Hospital Violence Intervention Program (HVIP), Trinity Health of New England
- Andrew Woods – Hartford Communities That Care
- Rev. Henry Brown – Mothers United Against Violence
- Sasa Harriot – Harriot Home Health Services
- Costanzia – Hartford Deportation Defense / Immigration Advocacy
- Kenny Green – Greater Hartford Alliance of Black Social Workers
- Infinity Jemison – ROCA
This panel will focus on real, grounded questions:
· What does safety look like in our neighborhoods this summer?
· How do we interrupt cycles of violence before they escalate?
· How do we strengthen mental health and trauma response in real time?
· And how do we align our efforts to build a coordinated Summer Safety Plan?
A Working Summit
This is not just a conversation this is a working summit.
We will come together to build a Summer Safety Plan, aligning our efforts, strengthening coordination, and identifying next steps to ensure safety and stability across North Hartford.
Register here: https://forms.gle/Mi6RCcJ98N7cEdVa7
Thank you for your continued commitment to our community. We look forward to building together.