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Mayor Dyer Calls on Community to Join Parramore Kidz
Zone Mentoring Program
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WHAT: |
Mayor Dyer
will challenge the community to join the City’s
efforts to revitalize Parramore and prevent
crime in our neighborhoods. The launch of the
Parramore Kidz Zone mentoring program builds on
the SAFE Orlando Task Force crime prevention
recommendations to “ensure the availability of
adult-supervised after school activities for all
students.”
Already more than 40
community and business leaders have committed to
mentoring a child in the Parramore Kidz Zone. At
Thursday’s announcement, PBS&J will present a
$50,000 check to Mayor Dyer and the Parramore
Kidz Zone to support initiatives such as the
mentoring program.
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WHEN: |
Thursday, February 21, 2008,
11:30 a.m.
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WHO: |
Mayor
Dyer
City Officials
State Representative
Geraldine Thompson
Anne Geiger, Orange County
School Board Member
Congresswoman Corrine
Brown’s Office
Robert Paulsen, PBS & J
Ron
Rogers, 100 Black Men
Lonnie Bell, African
American Chamber of Commerce
Haki Nkrumah,
Young Fathers of Central Florida
Monica May,
STAR 94.5
Paul Stevens, Circle of Friends
Jones High School Teachers
OUC
Representatives
Orange County Public Schools
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WHERE: |
Howard Middle School
800
E. Robinson Street
Orlando, FL
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About Parramore Kidz Zone
Modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, Parramore Kidz
Zone will employ creative outreach to engage a critical
mass of Parramore’s children and link them to positive
opportunities, including pre-kindergarten education,
parenting education, healthcare, mentoring, tutoring,
and constructive activities when school is out.
Since the launch, half of the children
in Parramore have been engaged in positive activities
through the Parramore Kidz Zone. The goal is to improve
school performance, and decrease juvenile crime, child
abuse and teen pregnancy rates among Parramore’s 2,000
children, 73% of whom live in poverty. The neighborhood
currently has the highest juvenile crime, poverty, child
abuse and teen pregnancy rates in the County.
About PBS&J
PBS&J
(www.pbsj.com) is an employee-owned firm that provides
infrastructure planning, engineering, construction
management, architecture and program management services
to public and private clients. The firm is ranked by
Engineering News-Record as 25th among the nation’s top
consulting firms. PBS&J has 4,000 employees in more than
80 offices located throughout the United States and
abroad. PBS&J has nearly 500 employees in central
Florida.
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