City Of Champaign: Neighborhood Safety Meeting Held At Champaign Park Apartments

Champaign IL

18 August, 2021

10:58 AM

Description

Press release from the City of Champaign: August 17, 2021 The Community Violence Response Task Force (CVRT), a working group of the Champaign County Community Coalition, hosted a Neighborhood Safety Meeting at Champaign Park Apts. on Monday, August 16. City staff Mary Catherine Roberson (ECHO) and John Ruffin (NSD) assisted with facilitation of the event, sharing information regarding crime in the complex as well as encouraging interested residents to establish a registered neighborhood group through the City's Neighborhood Services Department. This event also gave Champaign Park Apt. residents an opportunity to share neighborhood safety concerns and brainstorm solutions with property management. Information gathered from these meetings assists with community mobilization in neighborhoods impacted by community violence. This press release was produced by the City of Champaign. The views expressed here are the author's own.