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The Kensington Renewal Initiative (KRI) is a Philadelphia-based advocacy and community development organization founded by film director, Jamie Moffett.KRI was established to create a program model to rehabilitate blighted properties and dilapidated lots and transforming them into owner occupied homes for the purpose of significantly decreasing crime and drug activity in low income, urban ...
Quiñones-Sánchez represents Kensington, which is one of the hardest hit areas by the opioid epidemic. [7] She has called for a holistic solution to the epidemic. [7] She opposes a supervised injection site being built in Kensington because it will only end open drug use and not drug use itself. [7]
Jamie Moffett has also gained media recognition for his advocacy efforts in the areas of urban poverty, crime reduction, and homelessness. He is the founder of a Philadelphia-based campaign, Kensington Renewal Initiative , which was created to garner local and statewide support to decrease drug related crime in the low income, urban Kensington neighborhood.
For decades, being a public school student in the United States almost universally meant you were required to sit through the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.
Prevention Point Philadelphia was founded by ACT UP Philadelphia, and began syringe exchange program [1] which is also the first one in Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania. [2] Prevention Point Philadelphia provides harm reduction counseling, syringe exchange, medical care, support and education groups, and referrals to social services and ...
The Philadelphia Badlands is a section of North Philadelphia and Lower Northeast Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is known for an abundance of open-air recreational drug markets and drug-related violence. [1] It has amorphous and somewhat disputed boundaries, but is generally agreed to include the 25th police district. [2]
One of Daytop’s founders, a Roman Catholic priest named William O’Brien, thought of addicts as needy infants — another sentiment borrowed from Synanon. “You don’t have a drug problem, you have a B-A-B-Y problem,” he explained in Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use In America, 1923-1965, published in 1989. “You ...
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KRWU) is a progressive social justice, political action, and advocacy group of, by, and for the poor and homeless operating out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] The group was founded by six women, Alexis Baptist, Sandy Brennan, Diane Coyett, Cheri Honkala , Louis Mayberry, and Debra Witzman, and formed in ...