Community Relations - Social Development Commission - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. I wanna welcome everyone to the Emerging Youth Achievement Advisory Council. I am Jose Perez, the chair. I am joined by Amber Daniels, Michael Tortolitis. Ugou is on his way. Is doctor Kupa on the board?

Not yet.

Okay. Doctor Lindsay Hardenas, doctor Anthony Cruz, Marcy Patterson is excused. Also joined by director you're not you're not director anymore, are you? Steve Mahan and Alderman Russell Stamper. It is approximately 09:07AM on Thursday, July 17. And I'd ask the our assistant, Joanna, to Joanna Ruiz to please do the roll call.

Member Danny's? I'm here. Member Deuteritis?

Present.

Member Harness? Member Cruz?

Present. Member Bain?

Present. Alder member Stamper?

I'm here.

Mister president, Alderman Perez.

Present. I just wanted to take a second to thank everyone for attending today and thanks for conducting business during my absence. I wanna thank Alderman Stamper for doing so.

Thank

you. And knowing that I will be following up with all of the members about areas of interest and opportunities to move forward. There's a lot of work to be done. The headlines over the last two weeks have not been flattering to say the least. It's been weighing heavy on the council, the amount of violence we're seeing, and the amount of young people affected by it.

And that only means to myself and everyone else that we gotta continue to to stay connected, to roll up our sleeves, do whatever we can. Given the breakdown of so many structures, we have a lot of work in front of us. So I just wanna simply reassert that, you know, that this committee is committed to addressing this and policy recommendations. We are in we're only in our fourth meeting and that for the moment, we are just doing a lot of fact finding and researching and wanting to move in a much meaningful meaningful way and to formulate some some meaningful policy and thoughtful recommendations for us to all consider. And so just just with that said, we wanna just keep everyone connected knowing that we will get there.

So I wanted to thank everyone for their patience on that.

That's alright.

Does anyone have any questions about the previous minutes at all?

Mister

president. Alderman Stanford. Yeah. Hey. Bad man. Did we receive a presentation regarding Baltimore's violence prevention strategies? No. Did we discuss it? No. I felt like we had a conversation about it. Would that be something that we could bring to this committee to see what they're doing and how they did it?

Do you want an investigation and report out on it, or do you wanna hear from somebody there?

I'd like to hear from somebody there if it's possible. Okay. Heard on the radio the other day the difference that they're making in Baltimore with various different strategies, and I think we could benefit from learning what they're doing. You know, considering the president's comments in the last few weeks in the city of Milwaukee. Alright. Thank you.

And, Alderman, I know that my office has reached out to the mayor there and Okay. We've had some communication especially over some of the stuff they're doing with TIDs.

So Excellent. Excellent. Alright. But we

can we can expand on that. Okay. Any any discussion over the previous minutes? Senator?

Just wanted to know that mister Macon was excused from the last meeting, so I would have to update that before publishing

publishing the the minutes. Minutes.

Okay. So can you can make that that amendment to it then? Yes. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the minutes then with that said?

Yes.

Okay. Any objection to elder miss Dampers motion to approve the minutes? Hearing none, so ordered. We will now move into item number four, which is our presentation from Milwaukee succeeds. Do you want to join us at the table, introduce yourself, and tell us about the great work you're doing?

Well, as Sebas gets that going. Hi, everyone. My name is Maria Hamidoo. I'm the youth I'm for the youth for Milwaukee coalition project manager, and I'm excited to be here to show more about what we've been doing with our youth, and I'll pass it to Sebas.

How y'all doing? Good morning. My name is Sebastian Fuentes. I go by Sebas. I am a lifelong Milwaukee resident. I am an organizer, an artist, and I am currently the community engagement manager at Milwaukee Succeeds.

What what what what's your medium and your artist?

Music. So I I write, I perform, record music. Excellent.

Let's get that out there.

Yeah. There's a link at the end of y'all. Yeah.

He goes by El Cebas.

No. I I'd I'd about

I know Cebas, and he's he's South Side born and bred artist. And so I just

Appreciate it.

Wanna show him some luck.

Appreciate it.

For sure.

For sure.

So we're gonna start off our presentation with a little video from our young people just to really give you a background of how our eighteen month journey with our young people started last summer.

Okay. Okay. Okay. I just didn't want that.

The autonomous youth council is a direct response from young people wanting to actively participate in decisions that impact them in their community, and it's a space that takes a radical shift away from traditional learning and tries to really focus on skills, tools, resources needed by young people to be able to enter into these spaces where they can actively shape decisions, influence policy, and just kind of create the city and communities that they wanna see.

I really wanted to be able to connect with, with others my age and who has the same type of thinking that I that I do, but also just to really learn more about community organizing.

A lot of people talk about student voice. We care about student voice. We want student voice to inform our our work. And I'll be honest, in a lot of spaces, what I see is the coopting of young people's voices. People will, oh, we heard them out, but it never translates into we're using what they shared to make informed decisions around systemic change. Also, we're gonna bring them at the table. And I see what I see when Milwaukee succeeds is that they're doing just that. Right? It's not just I'm a hear you out, take your note take take what you shared and and dispose of it. It's you're you're taking what young people share. You're having them be part of the process of transforming systemic change, and you're having them at the table.

When I came into this space was to really unlearn some of the things that I do as a educator. I wanted this to be a space where young folks felt like they had time to me. They had the power the power to share their voices, their opinions in the ways that they felt comfortable. And the best part of this experience was getting to know all of the young people. David and Angela were, like, the first facilitators to actually put some things in my mind. David's whole thing about disrupting peace, Angela being a great facilitator and giving us great advice over

her course of activism.

A big need that young people expressed actually is that they wanted to focus on mental health, whether it be strategies on how to cope and or or just really talking about it. And so we implemented that into a weekly practice.

I would say the strategies that have helped most with my mental health would have to be the breathing techniques, but also, like, helps me physically recenter myself.

So at first, I wasn't, like, really open to it because I I never did that type of thing in my classrooms or even at home, really. But as soon as we did it and a couple sessions later, I realized, okay. This can I can kinda get into this? I kinda dig it.

Youth for Milwaukee and Milwaukee succeeds as an organization and a coalition that is dedicated to both racial and educational justice. We feel like we are positioned to really push for more youth voice within the decision making spaces as well as the fact that we prioritize our community members and our coalition members' voices in the decisions and the programs that we initiate.

So we've been talking about the education in Milwaukee, lot of social issues, and we've been trying to figure out the root issue to our youth in Milwaukee. So those have been, like, the big conversations. Like, they've taught us how communicate good here. So I feel like that will help me in my future most. They taught us, like they taught us how to communicate effectively, not just using cuss words and stuff like that. They taught us how to, like, speak to one another like we're humans instead of, you know, talking at each other.

We take your voice throughout Euphoric Coalition and this autonomous youth council seriously. So ensuring that others see us doing it, we're more likely to replicate that in different spaces. So that's why I feel like we're perfectly positioned to do this work. Alright. So just wanted to share what we've been doing through the voices of our young people as opposed to you guys just hearing it from us as adults.

We wanna always make sure that even when we're in spaces that youth voice is part of those spaces. So that's why we wanted to start you off with that video. Now a little background about the Youth Forward Milwaukee coalition. It is a cross sector intergenerational coalition of both youth, educators, organizers, and community members working together to build power within our youth population, shift systems to include our youth within those systems so that both adults and young people can work together for sustainable change within our communities. To ensure that we're holding ourselves true to this vision that we have of the coalition, we use this youth adult equity ladder as our North Star, as our guideline.

This tool helps us to reflect on where we currently are and also guides us towards steps needed to take to reach that highlighted green part of the ladder where youth and adults have both equity within the work that we do, be it in whatever sector that is. This is essentially for both young people and adults, a mindset shift where we're transitioning from having youth as participants within our spaces to being partners within those spaces. Typically, when we talk about youth within our spaces, we see them more in that tokenizing rung of the ladder where we consult them, we hear them, but we don't necessarily include them within the process or within the implementation of the work that we're doing. And we're trying to reach that highlighted green where both youth and adults have ownership of the work that we're doing as well as we see ourselves within our strength as well as the areas where we can cover for each other. So that's where that work is moving.

And I wanted to give you all, like, a moment to think about where you all find yourself on this wrong in the in terms of the work that you're doing with young people. Are you towards the top of the wrong where you're having youth adult equality where there are separate places and spaces for youth and adult, but they're not intermingled? Or are you striving for that youth adult equity part where we both recognize each other within those spaces and work together towards a shared goal and mission. So wanted to give that there. And, essentially, what we're really striving to do is building a lasting pipeline for youth leadership and talent within our city, ensuring that when they're thinking about the city, when they're thinking about their peers, when they're thinking about adults, they feel like they're part of the city as opposed to just an afterthought in terms of whatever policies, programs, decisions that we come up with within our city.

So we're all here to dive deeper into the autonomous youth council as y'all launch the emerging youth achievement advisory council.

But when we started this, rather than

pretending that we knew what young people wanted and what they needed, we actually had a fellowship where we asked 60 young people around the city of Milwaukee what can we do or what do they need to improve their high school experience and success and even redefining what success means and what it looks like. So they overwhelmingly said that they felt left out of decisions that directly impact them. A lot of decisions get made for them without them. So we began working towards strategies to build a foundation to make sure that we can create something that actually has authentic youth voice where we can reimagine what an equitable council, an equitable city could look like, and what it would exactly take. So that's what led to the creation of this autonomous youth council.

It was a direct response from what young people have expressed. So we envision a future where youth are empowered to actively engage, thrive, and participate in shaping decisions that impact their lives. So the autonomous youth council is a paid eighteen month commitment where young people are recruited, they're developed, and they're placed on local decision making bodies. So in the 2024, we launched our intensive eighty hour summer academy with 27 young people ages 14 to 23 with a 100% retention rate and a 92% daily attendance rate. We followed this up in the fall with a twenty hour fall academy and during these academies and these sessions members received a total of a hundred hours of professional development in prep for their twenty twenty five community placements and decision making bodies.

Some topics included youth adult equity, history of education in Milwaukee, local policy landscape, budgeting and resource allocation, data driven decision making, mental health time as you saw in the video, and also life skills. A thing that young people really express is that we want to learn these things, but there's a lot of things as well that we're interested in that we want to get ready for. A lot of them were gearing up for graduating from high school. So we had sessions on budgeting, home buying, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and post secondary pathways as well. Where we invited universities, where we invited trades people, and just really worked on their resume building skills, interview prep.

So just kind of a mix of things with things that we know that they needed in preparation for 2025, but also things that they express that they need in the real world.

So, Saba's y'all can hear me.

Right? Mhmm.

So Saba shared a bit about the AYC, and now I'll talk more about the commitment and what that means for both our placement partners and our council members. So this council is intended to explore and shift power dynamics within organizations. So for placement partners, we have eight including Milwaukee succeeds because we wanted to lead by example. So we have made sure that we were part of the learning process as well. Each placement site hosts a minimum of two AYC members council members because our youth said they didn't wanna be in a space by themselves because they felt intimidated by the adult spaces.

And they're committed to a minimum of eight hours of engagement per month for the for this year. So these placements are expected to offer youth meaningful decision making roles that directly influences youth engagement efforts. So it could be programmatic, it could be policy decisions within their organizations, or they could be on boards. So both partners and youth so when I say partners, I'm talking about our placement site partners. Both partners and youth participate in professional development opportunities to build shared capacity and leadership, essentially making sure that our young people both have that mindset shift of, yes, they can work with adults and that, yes, they are it's okay for them to make decisions within those spaces and also a mindset shift for our adults to say, I can work with young people as opposed to what we have traditionally been doing, which is work for young people.

Partners also commit to quarterly check ins with the Milwaukee succeeds team just so we're both learning what best practices that they're doing as well as addressing any challenges that may come about early on. And the AYC members also meet monthly to reflect on how their journey is going and also share any difficulties that they may be experiencing and how we can troubleshoot those difficulties. Throughout the year, youth are also expected to document how they've impacted decisions at your sites just so we're taking into account what types of decision that exist within those organizations that we're working with. So just a quick idea of some of the projects that our young people are working with include board membership, like two of our youth are placed on the board of data you can use to learn more about how data works alongside community and how projects like that shape how we go about doing what we do in our city. Leadership table members, revision of policies and procedures at Ladd Lake, philanthropic giving and project management with Milwaukee Succeeds, and also designing a media mobile van with Arts at Large.

So those are some of the projects that they've been working on with their placement sites.

I'm gonna talk a little bit about outcomes. That's like a big thing that obviously we need to focus on. And usually when when things like this are launched it's usually from the vantage point of what are youth receiving, what are youth getting, but on the other side with this project, it's really important to think about organizationally what are you getting as well, what are you learning as well from young people, so it's a symbiotic relationship. So just thinking about with the council members and decision making roles at eight different organizations and directly influencing program policy and participating in civic life and decision making young people are gaining real leadership and decision making experience and this really lays the foundation for a strong and effective leadership for the future of this city. Youth being integrated into strategies at these organizations also provide new and fresh innovative ideas.

It's a lot more effective. It's a lot more responsive to what people need. Things that we were doing maybe ten, twenty, even five years ago may not be as relevant anymore and so hearing directly from young people can really kind of, you know, reinvent certain certain things that maybe you're doing at your org. And then overall this this kind of work really creates youth centered frameworks. And so we're investing in the young people of the city and ultimately investing in the city as a whole.

So this shift in operational functioning and also operational operational functioning and mindset addresses things holistically. So we're having opportunity youth become reengaged. We're leading a transformational cycle of disengagement and inequity into a thriving and opportunity rich environment for all. And also meaningful relationships are being built with young people in the community. Trust is something that is extremely valuable and sometimes undervalued when it comes to working with young people. And if you're able to kind of have that relationship and build authentic relationships with young people, this can really lead to expanded engagement as well as buying from young people and trust in what you're doing.

So with all journeys, there are best practice best practices to be shared with our communities. So we prioritize ourself in creating a supportive, empowering environment by compensating our youth like Saban said. This is a paid eighteen month experience. So we compensate them for both their time, their expertise, and their lived experiences because they do have those and those differ from what we experienced when we were young. Affirming that those contributions that they share with us matter.

We built in regular feedback loops through surveys and focus groups so that we were making adjustments in a timely manner based on what they were sharing with us as the areas of change and improvement. From the start, we established community agreements to set shared expectations and promote account accountability for both the adults and the young people. It wasn't just community agreements for our young people to adhere to. It was for the adults within the spaces. We also made sure that youth had trusted adults that they could connect with, and this was really, really important for them and that they felt comfortable around them and worked with facilitators that we're able to adjust as you young people shared how they were feeling, what they wanted to learn, what more they wanted to explore.

So making sure that trusted adults exist within the spaces that young people work and thrive, make sure that we create spaces where they feel safe, they feel valued, and they feel heard, and that was what really mattered to them. And also facilitators that are willing to hear them. So this is one quote from our one of our facilitators, and they said that our young people really took on big topics. People typically think that is too big and beyond young people, but they're wrong. The youth engaged in difficult moments and conversations, and those conversations range from religion, racism, race, all of that that we think are too difficult for them to really talk about, but they're experiencing all those things.

So why not really give them a space and platform to share those experiences with us? With best practices comes barriers that we must make adjustments to. It was not all smooth sailing, and we're happy to share any difficulties that we had and what we did to adjust to those difficulties. So some challenges and growth areas that we experienced was that even though we saw a 100% youth retention and 92% daily attendance rate during the summer, the fall academy wasn't the same. Engagement dropped as youth balanced school and other things.

Some students were out of state because our age range from 14 to 23. Some of our youth were in college. Some had other engagements that they needed to prioritize. So in ensuring that we were able to meet schedules and ensure that our young people could be there as we transition from summer to fall, we transition from a hybrid model of meeting to a fully virtual meeting spaces to accommodate those schedules, but that shift also came with some trade offs where you felt like they could be more engaged when they were in person and have face to face discussions. So that is something that I wanna point out that young people do want that in person contact, that they do wanna be face to face with both their peers and the adults within the spaces just so they can get that feel of easier to focus, easier to connect, easier to do all those things.

We also learned the importance of keeping our parents and guardians regularly informed, especially for our youth that were under the age of 18, ensuring that and also ensuring that each session had clear goals, and those clear goals and expectations were communicated to our young people. Yes. They know why they're in those spaces, but do they know why they're in those spaces in that particular moment, and what goal are we trying to achieve that particular moment. So making sure that is clear and also clearly communicated with them helped them. So these adjustments, these barriers really helped shape our approach and are valuable takeaways for anyone trying to do work with young people. So I wanted to share those with you all.

And none of those would have happened without feedback loops from young people. As you work through this initiative, as you're launching this council, these are just some questions to reflect on as you continue to go through the work and ask yourself these things. You want to make sure that both adults and youth both have ownership of the work. And also keeping in mind what change do we want to see and what systems do we want to impact. So this QR code will lead you to our youth adult equity ladder assessment.

It's designed to help organizations reflect deeply on how they engage with youth and where they currently stand when it comes to youth adult partnership. This tool is meant to support and continue informing our work and to encourage team to explore how we can create more equitable environments and incorporate more equitable practices within our work. The assessment is not meant to score performance but to spark honest meaningful conversations and help identify areas of growth. It should be completed as a team to ensure a well rounded and collaborative reflection process. For an additional layer you can have your team fill out the assessment and then have the youth you work with fill it out as well and compare the responses.

Alongside the assessment we offer a best practices guidebook that provides actionable examples and tools for schools, nonprofits, and philanthropic partners committed to authentically and equitably working with youth. The tools developed by Kristen Kappleman, our director of research and data, and Milwaukee Succeeds is happy to facilitate the assessment process for any team interested in diving deeper into the work.

And I would also like to add that the assessment is tied to the youth of the equity ladder that you all saw. So after you've completed it, it places you on a rung on that ladder and gives you best practices and tools to help you move up the rung.

And then lastly before questions, I'm just gonna leave you out with this quote just to again really kind of highlight what the AYC has meant to some of our members and just thinking about how can we create a city where young people feel like they are a part of something better, something bigger than themselves and feel invested in the city that they live in to make a good and positive impact in the city.

I had a bunch of questions. So, school me a little bit. You have your first class, I mean, Core. Your first core. Yes. That is you have eight young people placed?

Eight organization.

Eight organization. So 16 technically because each of each of

them No.

That's a

so a minimum.

So a minimum of two.

So like for example, one placement has five because their project is a little bit larger in nature. The board is two. YourMoveMKE is another one. They have two. So it kinda really varies on the project. For the mobile media media event, we have three. And these are conversations that we had with the placements themselves. So, like, what what are you thinking that these young people can can kind of get into your org and work on? And then based off of that, having conversations with them, how many young people would be a good fit there.

And how long have they been placed now?

Since March of of this year. March. Yeah. We wanted

to lie

you know, we wanted to do it right in January, but rather do it right than than rushed.

Okay. And then so some organizations that have more than two Mhmm. Are getting multiple hours a month. These check ins that who does the quarterly check ins? The organizations do? We do. You you do with the organization?

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. And then the check-in is to to accomplish can you elaborate a little bit on the check-in?

So the check ins with our partner organizations, we have a consultant come in to work with our partner organizations, and she does explores what adultism looks like within the spaces that our our youth are occupying and how we can shift from that and move towards working with our young people as opposed to at them. And during those check ins, partner organizations share what difficulties and challenges that they're experiencing, and then we troubleshoot those in partnership with our consultant. For our youth check-in, those are monthly, and we meet with them at the end of the month to see what projects how the projects they're working on is going, what areas are they making decisions, how we can help them in terms of communicating with the partner organizations if they feel uncomfortable bringing things up or if they're okay leading the charge in terms of how they want to advocate for themselves.

And how long is the commitment by with the organization to

2025.

The the entire year. So at the end of the year,

you you So so so the

yeah. So so the goal and I also wanna add about the check ins as well. Those are formal check ins, but there's also times when you gotta shoot an email or, know, a quick phone call. So there's those formal check ins, but there's also a lot of informal check ins as well with both youth and partners. But through the 2025, the the hope is that some of these organizations see the value of this autonomous youth council and just having young people involved in those decision making spaces. And so the the aspiration is that the organizations choose to keep young people involved. And whatever that looks like for them, you know, it might vary. But but, yeah, we're kind

of in a So that retention might be a way to measure an outcome of success.

Yeah. And we're exploring too as well. Like, what does an alumni program look like? Right? How does it how can we create something sustainable so that it's not a one off thing or we're doing the same thing every year? Right? And just thinking about what the future of this council can look like, what it would take, and just kind of thinking and brainstorming things like that. Yeah.

So is is there is there another core in training for '26?

No. Not currently. Okay. No. And and and one of the best, you know, we've been taking notes and best practices and all that and, you know, we we launched the academy in the summer. That's when young people are really more available. But wanting to align the schedule with the school with the school year as well is something that we were talking about and just, again, just thinking about how the past year and some change has gone and if we could go back, what would we do differently? And so so there's no training currently in progress because our focus for this pilot year is is these placements, right? Like this is something new, something that we're learning on the go as well. So we wanna make sure that we're able to kind of pay attention to that.

So that could be to to be determined. Yeah. Of when you set another core for another

Yeah. Yeah. It is And so the community

take advantage of of that opportunity and create those partnerships.

Yeah. Okay.

Alright. Any questions from folks? I

have a question.

Yes. That's your harness.

Amazing and awesome presentation. Thank you. Could you walk me through some of the questions or prompts that you asked during the focus group feedback loop?

Why do you think I'll do the info?

During the before the council started or during the council? Great question. Let me think. So you said that you were doing a continuous feedback loop and then to see what improvements needed to be made, and you did surveys and focus groups. Yeah.

So what I'm specifically asking about is what are some questions or how did you frame the focus groups? Okay, so for the focus groups during the summer to get improvements, we framed them around topics that they were learning in terms of how they can how do they feel advocating for themselves. So we did a pre and post. Alright? So we asked them both times how do they feel advocating for themselves?

Do they have any understanding of equity? Do they know what it means to be making decisions within these spaces? And do they feel connected with their peers or their community? So those were some of the types of questions that we were asked. Asking them during the pre, it was pretty sad results.

But after the post, they felt like they understood what equity meant in terms of how young people show up in those spaces. They felt like they could advocate for themselves within their schools and to adults in certain spaces, and they felt that they felt connected to both their peers and the work that we were doing as well. So those were some of the questions that we were asking. And then for the informal types of feedback that we were getting.

Yeah. So so for the those were more, you know, like she said, pre and post, but, I mean, obviously, when you're in the thick of it it's also good to get feedback so every week over the summer we would have a shoe box I called it the magic box of suggestions so kids could write anonymously or they could put their name if they wanted a suggestion put it in the box and then I check it at the end of the week and I report back. So on Friday I would say, hey, these are the suggestions that I got from the box, you know, read them out loud and then also an answer to that or an implementation from that or a talk or a discussion with a group about that, right? Like one of them was like, oh we want this kind of food for lunch instead of this. So we talked about, okay cool, what kind of food should we get?

And other things were a little more content driven or facilitator driven and so that weekly feedback helped check the program as it was going. And then again, I talked about trust and authentic relationships. If young people trust you, if young people feel like they are seen by you, they'll they'll come up to you and they'll say, hey, like, you know, we should do this or hey, I didn't like that. And those informal conversations are are also a big player in, like, informing some of the things. Okay. And those don't come from cyberbetas. Those don't come from, you know, little little sessions that you have that comes from you seeing seeing the kids, being consistent, being present, talking with them about things outside of the council. You know what I'm saying? So Mhmm. Those are all things coupled together that we're really able to drive and inform a lot of our work.

That's helpful. So my next question is when obviously I'm focusing on the focus groups and the informal feedback is extremely important, right? My question is about the focus groups. When you get the results, the pre, the post results, did you go back to the youth and say, here are the results and debrief them about that? Yes.

We shared that with them, and then we also shared those results with our coalition member as well because they part of the process in terms of creating the council and also watching it grow. So we made sure we always present back any data that we collect from both our young people and our community members back to the folks that gave us those data. Excellent. Excellent. And my final question is, what was one thing that surprised you now that you're reflecting back on the experience and the process?

Like, what's one thing that you didn't expect? Recently, we took two of our young folks to DC, to the capital to speak with our representatives, and they really embodied what we were teaching and sharing with them in terms of equity, in terms of bringing young people into the decision making spaces and valuing those experiences and thoughts that they bring to the table. And they really, like, sat there. I was just background character in that space. They really sat there and shared all of that with our representatives, and I was just like, wow.

They are soaking everything that we teach and share with them. So being conscious of what we do teach and share with them was really good. I

just wanna follow-up with that question. Actually, that's a a great point. So hold that hold that thought right there. But first, wanna say great presentation, very comprehensive. You actually answered a lot of the questions that I had as you're going through. So just, you know, very, very well thought out. If you could describe kind of following on that thought, what have been, you know, I'm not sure how long you guys have been in existence. My apologies there. But what have been some of successful outcomes that you have had? And obviously, we all know success is gonna vary.

What success looks at like like early on is gonna change from what it looks like two years, three years, four years. But some of the successful outcomes that your organization has has had because, you know, obviously, those folks, they're not here where we could talk with them or engage them so that we could actually see with them right now. You know, so if you could kind of talk with that because we all realize that success breeds success. Right? So, you know, some of the success that you've had now to say, hey, these are some of the successful outcomes that we've had that kind of helps us to be able to look at, you know, what what this might mean two, three, four, or five years down the road.

Yeah. I could share I could share a little bit about about that. So we we launched in the 2024.

Okay.

So it hasn't I think it's been a year around this time. Congratulations. Thanks. Thanks.

And this is just for

the council. Right? But it was it was we had a lot more folks who were the age range, I said, was 14 to 23. And about half of them were or a little less than half were 18 and older, the rest were still younger in high school.

But some some of

the some of the highlights I guess that I would say are two of our council members from that inaugural group actually left because they got jobs in their field. One of them is in education, another one in nursing. A hundred hours of professional development for these young people again being responsive to what they said whether it be resume building, life skills, buying a home. And

a

lot of these young people are either in school, working or actively were looking for work and so that's also a big part. I know with this council we want to put them on decision making bodies and this and that but at the end of the day young people they they do want to work and it's sometimes it's very difficult for them to find a job if they don't have experience, if they don't have, you know, the certain skill set that they wanna get into that they're looking for. So like connecting with trades and stuff. But those are just a couple of things that I I know it's it's it may seem small but I feel like this is the start of something that can continue to grow. A lot of our young people also were high school seniors so a lot of them graduated and so I have to update the schools represented but out of the 27 young people that we had there were 18 schools represented.

And so just that that span and that collaboration was really cool for me to see in the way that they clicked right and that support system that they created and a handful of those are now going in off to college Right? And some of them are going to college out of state as well. And so again, thinking about what this can look like moving forward, how do we plan for things like that if a young person is going, you know, out of state?

But my my humble advice, any which way you can, if you can start tracking that because no matter if it's one or two or 10 that those are important and there's been multiple you said there's been multiple touch points you earning their trust and so forth but those outcomes are gonna be important. The more you can track that, it kinda helps us in our decision making.

No. I I appreciate that a lot, and that's something too that we've discussed as a team about, you know, sometimes you're you're you're in the work and and you're like, We gotta we gotta also know this back end stuff so that when it comes to certain conversations, we we can have strong points to make as well. So, I appreciate that feedback and that, you know, affirmation that we need to continue to head in that direction.

Sure. On that point, especially if someone who's been through the process goes to another state and they're benefiting from it, from the leadership developed and they're influencing policy somewhere else. Yeah. That's true.

Yeah. I I am I'm thankful that you're so transparent. One thing that I noticed that I've never seen is that somebody listing their barriers and adjustments. If more folks did that, there would be less pitfalls that other folks would fall into. And so just piggybacking off of what everyone has been saying, when you start tracking, that's the same thing. You should follow that same mode of, hey, we couldn't find them. It was easier to do it this way. It's just it's a learned experience. And when you're dealing with youth, especially as we all start to get older, even you all, everybody's gonna start changing. Right?

You'll you'll

stay hip no matter what.

You're you're a As an You'll stay

in house. But

it keeps changing. So be transparent that way also that this is what your pitfalls were. This is what happened best. And, you know, we're gonna actually that's a model that we're gonna try I think we're gonna to help some other folks to be more transparent. Then And it would make more sense because we all it it's it's a try and and do, not a always succeed. And so thank you.

Thank you.

I'll just mention that from the very beginning, I I mentioned earlier about is we're formulating and wanting you ought to come and talk to us about these successful models. We've been thinking about how to incorporate youth on this council, right? And we, you know, we're talking today about committees later and I'm gonna encourage us to figure out how I go back and legislatively potentially change the makeup of this board to include young young people whether it's from your youth council, our own youth council, make them voting members. So we've been conscious and thinking about it and part of getting there is hearing from you on how to do it in an effective way. So I appreciate you guys being here today.

And also as and especially with your age range of young people that you're working with, I know that as the council president, I have lots of appointments to make on several city committees, and I wanna make that available to young people that based on their interests and where they fit in to get on the portal. There's something you you're interested in. We can share that with you, and we can get them engaged as soon as possible.

That would be awesome.

So that we can we can we can put them on bodies that follow their interest and their passions and we can make sure that they're living some of that out as soon as possible because I got a lot of appointments and we're looking we're always on the hunt for passionate, committed people to to work on these committees that to have their input heard. So I wanna wanna put that out there.

Alright. Thank you all so much for having us and for the great questions you all

have. Thank you. Sir, real quick. Older staffer.

Yeah. Thank you. I enjoyed the presentation. Excellent job. Hey. Did you mention the ratio for adults to youth?

In terms of?

The workshops, the day to day lessons, the teachings.

Less adults, more youth.

For sure. I'm talking about one to 10. Well, how many youth are there?

During the during the summertime there were 27 youth and we had one facilitator per week but we also participated so we we were not facilitators during that time we were integrated into the lesson or the session or whatever it was but there was always more young people than adults. You know sometimes adults would drop in and check out what we're doing but it was usually one facilitator. One week, we had, like, guest speakers, so it was like a group of, like, four or five. But, yeah, we we usually keep it try to keep it to more young people than than adults. Okay. Yeah.

Have you met their parents? Are their parents involved?

Some of them.

Yeah. Yeah. For youth that are underage, we've met their parents. For those that are adults.

Yeah. And when we when we started to for the onboarding process, we had to have their even if we didn't meet their parents, we did have to get, like, consent forms for, you know, to we would take them. One of the things they said is they wanted experiential learning. So every Friday, we would do something outside of, you know, four walls and so we needed permission to, you know, bus them to places. We needed their permission to, you know, use their their, you know, picture if we post on there our socials. So there was still communication with adults even if we never, you know, parents or guardians, even if we never got to meet them face to face.

Okay. And I missed on how the the youth was selected or or chosen.

An application an application process. Yeah. Yeah. So

We also made sure that the application process was easier for them so you could do your traditional type and answer the questions. You could record an audio responding to the question or you could do a video responding

to all three.

So depending on what you wanted to do, if your strong suit is just speaking out your responses or typing out your response, we made sure that it was to

the Yeah. And before and before before the council, we had an an ambassadorship where we had about six to eight young people as ambassadors of Youth for Milwaukee and they actually informed the application process as well because we probably wouldn't have included that if young people were not like, you know, you should include a a video or audio And so we got all three types of responses.

Oh, that's

nice. Yeah.

That's nice. And then returning back to in person, where where do you guys engage at?

You said where? Yes. Was that a school?

Oh, no. So we're based out of Thrive on King

Okay.

On MLK. Yeah. So that's where.

Okay. You Tonight's person. Gonna come back in person? Yeah. Burial, but is that

scheduled? We have. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. We had a One week. A one week summer academy. Yeah. Just last week. So instead of the four weeks, like the inaugural, this is like a one week intensive sessions

Yeah.

To kind of build off of that and also kind of see where where all that in their placements and then continue that work. So but there's still a monthly session, the monthly check ins, but it the one week session was kind of our summer academy this year.

Yeah. You. Mhmm.

Any other questions? Anything else? I I wanna thank you again. We're we'll definitely be in touch on figuring out some leadership opportunities.

Alright. Yeah. Please do. And hold me accountable for those numbers because after this year, I'll have a better idea with the placements and all that, and I don't wanna leave that out. So thank you again for highlighting that. I appreciate it.

Alright. Thank you.

Yeah. What's your capacity? Like, how many use? I'm sorry. I'm gonna talk. Like like, how big can you grow?

How big can we grow? Yeah. What's

our capacity?

Our capacity is limited because save us or mighty well, in addition to Katina, mighty team of three working with our current cohort. So if we do want to expand, we would have to add additional capacity or have other orgs take on the share of what we're doing as well. So that's Yeah.

Do you have a number on the cup what what that means per per participant?

Yeah. 30 right now. 27.

It's difficult to say because it really if you have one full time person focused on this council solely, right, it's gonna be different than if you add that to somebody's load who already has another position. So it's really dependent on what type of structure you want to do to support this work. But I I we were talking about, you know, if, you know, we were to do this again, what are some changes we would make? And even even for both of us, right, Katina was kind of the the quarterback supervising and me and Mario were kind of putting the pieces together. So it was like really two of us focusing on this and we had 27 and it was it was a man a very, you know, it was a load to manage for sure.

And so I would I would say even if we were to do it again, maybe have a little less than 27 with two people.

Excellent. Yeah. And we're open to receiving referrals, suggestions just like your box. We our own box. Feel free to send us emails that the council should

be You gotta rename the box, though. Like, you know what I mean? That's Yeah.

Emerging box.

Yeah. We're we're we're always open. We're always open.

And I officially stand up now.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. You. Wanna move on to item number five where we have our overview and focus. Other than that too?

Yes. So you should have a copy. You should and you should have seen a couple of these already. We'll focus on the first one. That is just the as the overview of the council. We talked about this a little bit last time. You should have also received digital copies. Oh, and I wonder why draft didn't show up on our copies. But these are all drafts. I would like for the council to review them and formally adopt this as the overview and mission and vision of this council. And then answering, I can answer.

For the record, this went up to everyone.

Yes. Yes.

So this is the first time you're seeing it? Correct. Yeah. And as far as I know, no one gave us any feedback on changes? No. Okay. You know and I I I do wanna find the appropriate time I just want put it out there to to figure out how we. Make a decision as a body about moving forward and putting young people on this body so.

Mhmm. I have a quick response to the overview because you had mentioned wanting to have the youth maybe be or changing the legislation to maybe appoint a youth member.

Yes.

Should we reflect, like, the priority around that in the overview of having, like, this actual youth engagement on this body?

Mhmm.

Maybe add a piece there.

Yeah. We could do that.

You mean having them come in and present like

a like

a No. I think agenda item.

We'll make it as part of the priority that

Right.

Youth will represented on Uh-huh. The council.

Now keep in mind, we do have a a youth council.

Yeah. So And I thought

maybe interested in inviting them to one

of our

meetings and discuss the best way to involve them.

No. I thought about doing a position for our youth council and maybe theirs. Like, two two actual

Position. Okay. Gotcha.

Two youth Okay. As a suggestion Uh-huh. For the body to consider. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So would you like to add that into the mission? Something a line specifically around in involving youth in this body?

It may be, yeah, maybe like incorporating youth voice in the

You're looking at the wrong one. It's this one.

Oh, not an over there.

No, it's Michelle. This one. This one. Yeah.

This? Or is it the who we are section?

Yeah. Leaders from across the

sectors are committed to working on it.

Because I this, I think, just reflecting on our last presenters, it it literally says in here, like, us adults working for the youth. It might be important to consider what it looks like to work with them.

Excuse me. You're doing a copy, Tim. Maybe we should have had the letter before we printed

this. Put the button.

So that this is the one you should be looking at.

Yeah. Okay.

So I heard somebody say in the the who we are section?

Yep. Sure. Okay. Perfect.

Alright. Anything

else? Okay.

Think when we look at milestones, you touch it in a couple of different ways. You talk about employment. We talk about workforce training. And also you also talk about entrepreneurship, which is a which obviously are all important. But I think if if somehow we can incorporate something regarding access to industry exposure, whether that might be

Like a experiential learning?

Yeah. You do. Whether industries, health care, obviously construction, I'm gonna be biased about construction, obviously. But exposing them to these different industries could be through a multiple different ways. It could be chambers. And I and I mentioned that to say when you're looking at these industries, whether it's innovations and technology, whether it's construction and so forth, I think those kinda go hand in hand whether it's employment and or entrepreneurial, but having them have visibility for that, I think, is gonna be extremely important.

Visibility, maybe access?

Yeah. Visibility, access. So I'm so I'm not sure the the exact thing. I'm not married to, you know, how it's worded, but I think somehow, you know, looking at industry and how do we connect them with industry in that. So that we don't have to have the the onus all on our shoulders, but how we can tie in with other chambers that can kind of provide them access to.

I'm thinking like, basically, what you're saying, like, internship opportunities. Well, definitely. I mean, they

can definitely, you know, lead to that. Yes. I mean, they're

talking about, like, going back

to, successful outcomes. Internships will be definitely successful outcome. I'm even looking at the the the infancy, you know, prepubescent stage is just giving them visibility to it. You know, when you look at I I was blown away when our county executive talked about he could take a toilet out.

And Yeah. You know, and

he was how he could know, and the difference between a a wax ring and an o ring, but Yeah. He was exposed to it at an early age. And whether it's construction, obviously, NAMAC, we're obviously we do construction, but Mhmm. Mhmm. We've got young folks in sixth grade, eighth grade who've never seen success successful black owners Yeah. In construction.

You know?

They don't know that a a black woman actually did all the technology at at Pfizer for Yeah. Know, so it's still stuff. Them seeing that at early ages, I think, are gonna be huge and that Crucial. Yeah.

Where where would that fall under? Is that you That's what you She's actually the words measure. I'm gonna

add that. I'll add that in there.

I'll add can be four words or 40 words, but

you know, that's a good idea. Yeah. There you go.

To the point. Any other questions or suggestions? So, with adding that, then, are we okay to move forward forward with adopting that or do you want to see the additions before that?

What's the will of the body? You guys wanna see it again? Or just make sure it's in

there and move it forward?

And then this separate behind or is that under one of these four? Right. And the milestones that we just talked about, the internships.

I would put I would I mean, I I could put it in there as its own thing with some of the, you know, specifics. I think that's because then we can address all because there was a few things mentioned. Okay. That I think would probably be important to have its own own area. Especially as there are nonprofits that do do some of that.

And so, you know, maybe looking at who's already doing that that well. Because I know there's one that has taken students to to the port because we have a, you know, we have a a black female leader over there. And so there are organizations that are are doing that and doing that exposure.

And I don't wanna misstep, but I

I assume we're not gonna work in a silo. We're gonna work with

Oh, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're correct.

Okay.

So are we good with the changes that we're going or you want me to get You know,

this this is a set in stone. Right? I mean, we could pass it now and always upgrade. We can always tweak it. This looks good right now, but and maybe it may need some enhancing based on engagement into the neighborhoods. Some I don't know if it's in here or maybe fall under one of the duties that the nonprofits are doing, but more engagement in the streets

is what I'm thinking. And I think as we go on to the committee descriptions, you'll see it, you know, we can dive down a little deeper on on those things as well.

So I'll move to support and approve this, mister chair.

Alright. The motion by Alderman Stamper is to move forward with the suggested amendments to the to the overview and focus. Hearing no objections, we'll move that forward knowing that at any time we can always adjust it. Mhmm. Mhmm. We wanna move into our committee overview. Did you wanna take them all together or one at a time, Kevin? I don't know if have them laid out.

We let's start one at a time. Okay. So let's look at

our data committee overview. And and and this is this is just a framework based on all the conversations and presentations we've had to this point. So if there's something that we're not covering here, we we need to hear from you.

And you'll notice as we go on this with the other two committees, this one is more fleshed out and part of that is because there has been ongoing conversations with doctor Harness, with doctor Velez who is here and doctor Victor Amaya who was here the last time, and then building upon the work that was already done with My Brother's Keeper.

So, I mean, just to just to keep the conversation going, I mean, I mean, I think there's I want to hear from the committee folks but there is a need and it it is a priority to have a very specific data committee from everything we've heard. Correct? And there's no doubt that we we we need that as a subcommittee. Mhmm. Okay. Alright. Is there anything missing from the from the what we call this? A description of the committee or a guideline of the committee, an overview of it? Is there anything that we've heard or haven't heard that is super important to make sure we include in this moving forward?

From my opinion, I I feel like we have, especially for the timeline if we're looking at 2025 and and then to 2026. Again, this might be something that as the committee actually forms and meets, we might come back and say this we want to tweak this a little bit in the focus. But I've asked for feedback from doctor Villas and doctor Harness on this before presenting it and and also you know presented it. To your office so I don't feel like in this moment that we're we're missing anything. We don't wanna put the cart before the horse and we really need some kind of baseline things and you'll see that, you know, we've talked about CDBG funding and you serving organizations and and you know what that is out there and you know kind of wrangling cats to get to get some of this information.

And so something that we've heard consistently is is either we can't get the data disaggregated how we need it disaggregated or it just it it isn't out there. It's not being collected by organizations. So this will prioritize that. And then also the support for organizations because I don't think it fair to ask organizations to start collecting this data without any support, technical support. You'll see a toolkit mentioned because you you have to know the why so that you can then do it effectively and also see the benefits of it.

I think this is one of the issues with the data and I think we had some folks in here before the first meeting, is that the funding source if the funding source is generic in what they're asking for, folks are not typically don't go too far off the rails of what they're collecting. And but but as a, you know, city of the first class and a, you know, a funder, this this committee could help with what we want to see. And it doesn't you know, it can still get the basic information that the funding sources asking for, but you can always expound on it. And that's what's gonna be needed, especially moving forward to see, hey. This is the goals we're trying to hit.

Right. So looking forward to seeing how that rolls out.

Yeah. Definitely. I think that's that's gonna be really important. And then when we talk about, you know, who's on this committee, making sure that we are having representation not only from the city, but the the county and the state as well as our education and research partners. So I would ask the same of this one that the council would unless there's any additions or questions that they would formally adopt this as a overview

for Yeah. I know that I wasn't here for the the data presentation, but I think it's it's it's obvious that there there isn't also a a uniform way of collecting data or understanding it or it's bits and pieces, different ways, different organizations, and it's hard to kind of compile and and make an assessment of data you can't access.

Right. And there's not a lot of debt. There's not data collected post programming for any significant amount of time to show, for instance, if somebody was getting involved in the trades and they did a program. A lot of the programs don't have the funding or capacity to track them beyond whatever the the grant requires. So you don't really know if you're feeding a pipeline because there's there's nothing tracking that.

Okay. So we have we have some consensus on what's in here. And again, if we need to tweak it or add it, we can do anything else. With that said, I'll we have to vote on each one of these committees. With that said, I'll I'll move approval. Okay. So Alderman Stamper moves approval of formally moving the adoption of the data committee, the data subcommittee. Yes. Any objections to that? Hearing none, so ordered. Okay. Moving on to our workforce and education committee.

So, again, this one is not quite as fleshed out as the data committee. I have not I have not spoken to anybody and gotten any input outside of really at all.

This is your this is your

This is me. This is this is my twenty years of experience.

I mean, I saw it. I couldn't add anything to it, but

Well, the the the question is, do we need to add to it or or subtract from it? When you're looking at education, you know, education and workforce, those are no. I'm not an educator, but those are two big areas. And then I was the the second thought I was looking at was this would be if it wasn't so already so robust, it would be a good area to include the industry in there also.

But I but I'm thinking, you

know, that's that's putting a lot on the one. You got education. There's overlap, obviously, with education and workforce and so forth. But to me, those are those are two separate pillars.

So when you say industry, could you expand on that

a little bit?

Kind of circling back to the the the prior discussion we had as far as looking at, you know, when you talk to for me, when you look at entrepreneurialism, which is important, I know that you was included as one of the one of the milestones. You know, I know I've got the educators that are gonna that don't beat me up in a second. But to me, for me, I've always looked at you can't really look at entrepreneurialism until you look at the industry. Because if you're an entrepreneur, you're bringing some value to some type of industry, whatever it might be. So to me, it's it's don't put the cart before the horse.

Expose the people to that industry, and then they may become a great entrepreneur in that industry as opposed to just kind of tripping into something. And I think the more the more well educated somebody becomes about a specific industry, the better they will be, whether it's in the workforce or whether it is as entrepreneurs or So that's where I kind of look at industry just a little bit different than just entrepreneurialism, if that makes sense.

Oh, definitely. Yeah. But I think

But defer to the educator.

It works very well with that even if it can be expanded the youth employment and career pathways. I mean Okay. Just having individual exposed to that, what you're talking about, different industries. But I think it's it works really well with this. And and including industry in in the mix here to expose students to this early on. And so I think through all these things like internships, apprenticeships, training programs, we could add other things that may enhance exposure to industry early.

And I I agree. I agree 100%. The to me, where the the route comes from me is where obviously you have education organizations that do it well, where they when I say do it well, you know, having courses that are gonna be industry focused that really kind of, you know, jump, you know, people in there. And then you have organizations that may be a little bit challenged. But, you know, obviously, MATC, Alberto and so forth would do a phenomenal job in that area. But but, no, I agree. It's definitely education is definitely a great a great point. So, yeah, I agree.

Because even for us, you know, our our curriculum and our courses are informed by industry. So we have councils on each of our programs that are made up of industry partners that are informing us as to how to improve that. So that's what I'm saying that I think it's it can be. You're you're right. It doesn't always it's not always the case, but it can be where we are hearing and listening to our industry partners, understanding what the needs are. And then in in addition to that, then how do we expose students to those opportunities so they learn about those different opportunities.

I would just like to speak a little to why putting the two together. And I had pushback when this was the black male achievement council and it was a committee under the same name. And I wasn't actively in education and workforce development at that time. But and one of the reasons that I left formal education was because our model isn't preparing our young people for workforce. And I feel like if we put these two together and that and that I used to say college ready is trades ready, that we need to stop separating the two.

I concur. And

also putting one up on a pedestal. Right? But we also we have programs that are out there but we don't have the upfront work to for like the self awareness and self assessment what are you naturally coming to the table with What are your strengths and what's a good fit for you to then start doing that, you know, exposing to the different experiences instead of just being like, hey, we got this. Let's just send a whole a whole group over here because it doesn't it doesn't work.

No. No. I agree. And I'll just I'll wrap it up real quickly. The I know I first of I concur. They're not mutually exclusive. You know, industry trades and education secondary, you know, even third level education, they're not mutually exclusive. They go hand in hand together. But I'll even go a step further assessing how they are, where they come in. I also think it's extremely important as I, you know, reiterate the showing them what it looks like on the other side.

Mhmm. You know, whether it's successful executives, you know, we have, you know, infrastructure executives that are making, you know, well into the 6 figures. You know, people are like, wow, that's, you know, an infrastructure, you know? So, you know, having those folks come in there and look at them, look like them, you know? And then obviously we're talking about business owners and so forth, but all these industries, when they can see executives that look like them, that are doing well in healthcare, whether it's education, IT, construction and so forth, I think when they're able to see that and we're able to make that bridge, then also I think they see the value of education, you know, of of saying, hey.

If you stay in there, get your two year degree, four year degree, you can be that person. And it's a lot a lot easier to be that person than the next Giannis or Mhmm. LeBron.

Mhmm. Mhmm. You know?

Now look yeah. I mean, I So where yeah. Where would you

where would that fall under?

So she's gonna be the she's gonna make this even more

robust. Right.

It it it I anticipate this after we form this council that that we would probably bring this back with some more desired outcomes.

Well, and then as doctor Cruz said, know, MATC and I assume Alverno would say that they're they're already, you know, they have in courses that are doing this. They're getting input from corporations. They're designing their you know, so, you know, as you mentioned from an educational standpoint, it makes sense to put this.

It's the k 12 that's not doing that.

Oh, we gotta gotta start somewhere.

Not not consistently. So, yeah.

Okay. Any do you have your marching orders right, Evan? Alright. Any other discussion on the workforce development and education overview or the committee?

There'll certain move adoption.

Adoption, mister Murphy. And and and the motion is to formally adopt workforce development and education as a subcommittee. Correct? Yes. Okay. Hearing no objections, so ordered. Moving on to safety and wellness committee.

This one is also very light but has some, you know, some focus areas based on a lot of what we've heard from youth and from, you know, data already. This again will be expanded as that as members are identified and focus areas are fleshed out a little bit more and desired outcomes for the remainder of the year.

Not that this has to be hammered out now, but I think one of the when we talk about the guiding principles, I think, in in exploring the topic of safety and wellness is looking at the how it's funded. You know, when I don't think that the wellness side is funded as much as the the opposite of

the Reaction? Yeah.

What happens?

Response and reaction. Yeah. I feel

like incarceration and other things where we wanna avoid that. We're better off investing at making sure that this is properly funded or at least talking about it.

I'm like, like, as for wellness as an anti violence

Yeah.

Prevention.

Anything else? Any other Comments, concerns, things like this? This is

where you're gonna have the biggest need for youth involvement. We have systems that are set up for the rest of these other committees, but when we get to talking about youth and mental illness, mental wellness, trauma informed care, but this this group represented, those types of circles are the only way you're gonna be able to get at them because Mhmm. I mean, we can't tell as adults why they are doing it. They they they're gonna have a hard time articulating also why they are where they are. So it's definitely looking at that, you know, they're having some of these breakout circles that could work around some of this stuff.

Yep. Yeah. Agreed. Anything else? You're really quiet for the man.

Alderman Stamper was messing with the scoreboard the other night.

Still not sure

not if

focus areas for the different committees, especially the education and workforce development. Now thinking of it is

Can you

use the mic a little?

Is going back to the you mentioned the power of a mentor who looks like you. Yeah. And so just mentorship, I feel should be a key focus area from from the presentation and a lot of these youth centered programs, having a strong mentor and building relationships. I feel they touched on three things just based on my

And

you need strong mentors. And it's even more effective again and I'm sure sure a lot of us have experienced that when it's a mentor who looks like you.

When

you have a native successful individual on the reservation working with these youth and they see that because there's just a lot of native communities as in a lot of communities here in Milwaukee. For our youth, there's just clouds of hopelessness at times. Like they don't see their their brother or their mother or their father or their auntie or their uncle going to school or being successful or or But but but just the power of of that individual when you walk into a room and you're working with youth and and and you look like them, excuse me, is is is strong. I'll end there. But I do feel it's important to to to find somewhere to include mentorship in these focus areas.

I think that's really, really important.

Oh, yeah.

Thank you.

Doctor, I did notice in their presentation that Lanell Ramey was there in in the presentation. So mentor Milwaukee was in there. So you're right. They must be using some component of that.

And just how many groups other than four one four life are out there on the streets day to day?

It's just four one four life? You have organizing committees and you have ambassadors. You have ambassadors from some of the hospitals. It just depends on what their mission statement is. There's a lot of people on the street. I mean, there's there's even health navigators that are working with a number of the smaller clinics. It's really what they're putting out. They're designed

to do.

What they're

designed to get a list of them because I wanna beat those up for the people on the streets day to day, you know, doing prevention, trying to get the guns off the off the neighborhoods.

Work with the health department to get Lisa a good list. They they have it. No.

You got it?

No. Between DOA and the health department.

Yeah. Yeah.

We're probably touching some of them.

Yes. Yeah.

He said all of them.

Any other questions, comments, concerns, discussion? Alright. With that, I think I think mister Mahan will make the motion to accept the safety and wellness as a subcommittee for the emerging youth achievement advisory council hearing help.

Perez, let me ask you this. How do y'all feel about police and community relations? Being one of the focus areas?

Being a focus area? I mean, I think I

think it's or or or or strategy to help a lot with prevention as far as informing authorities.

Restorative and fair systems kind of what they

Is it under that?

Some of that.

So Okay.

I think it'll probably end up being a tactic under one of the, you know, initiatives is to to to build those relationships. I think that is very critical on both sides.

Yeah. Mean, I'm calling my liaison police liaisons have been working with youth on a on a daily basis and and and workshops. So it's kinda coming back.

The the Murata project?

Yeah. Yeah. So that was interesting. Mhmm. So I'd like to see more of

that. Mhmm.

And then

You know, for me, I Firefighters and police department.

Yeah.

I think about opening up the the body for youth, and I'm I'm curious to see what their take is on.

Yep. Mhmm. Right. Mhmm.

That's a

good point. I'd I'd like to take their lead on, you know, where that stands as a priority strategies for that and then move move on that based on what they're telling us to do.

Okay.

Okay. So the motion by mister Mahan was these to move safety and wellness as an official subcommittee of the emerging youth advisory achievement advisory council.

Yes.

Any objections? Hearing none, so order. Now we're into announcements. Any announcements? Anyone?

I have an announcement. Seven? I wanted to you all should have a flyer. There's intergenerational dialogue happening happening a week from today at peak initiative. Is peak in your district still?

Absolutely.

I thought so. Okay. So come out and support Alderman's Tampers District.

Please.

This will be a unique facilitation model where we'll have a fishbowl, so we'll have youth in in an inner circle and we'll give them prompts and then adults of different generations will be on the outer circle. After the dialogue, internal, you can put a chair in there and one person from the outer circle can come in and ask a clarifying question, make a comment, know, it's timed and all that and then you switch. And so it's to ensure that there is active listening. We wanted to make sure that adults didn't take over the conversation and make sure that everybody was listening to each other. They will also be broken up by a male facilitator and a female facilitator.

And there will be food and refreshments. So I encourage you to sign up and also to share with your networks.

Are you gonna bring the QR code for the ladder?

I said, right? I I'm a huge fan of the ladder. Sure.

Alright. Good. Hey. Is this a continuing session from the thrive on Milwaukee youth event you had last month?

So that no, they're not necessarily connected, but they will inform that same body of that youth and young adult council that is being done by through Marquette. So and and we will take this information to also inform this council.

Alright. Well, that was really good. So I don't know if it was part of that or not, but it was it was really good.

If I'm involved, it's all gonna come together some kind

of way.

Is that what it is?

Good job. Okay.

No one else has anything else I wanna plug? Come on. No announcements? I will say that the city committees are on recess recess

for the month

of August. I just let everyone know that, and we'll be back up in September. It doesn't mean we won't be talking or reaching out to you, just an official committee. That will not happen in the month of August. So I wanted to let people know that. Okay. Alright.

Well, I'll be promoting engagement and outreach and recruitment for block grant. We got our South Side, our North Side meetings coming up. I'm going to meet with Mario this week and start promoting that for more initiatives and focus around violence prevention and economic development. So I'll be kinda going on

a Alright. On a spill. If you wanna participate Yeah. Get engaged. It's an opportunity. Okay. And no more announcements and they're

being Sorry.

If anyone knows anyone that's interested in applying for the ACRE program, the application's closed today, just as a reminder.

They closed today?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm writing letters. The closing is closed. Yeah.

Yeah. Alright. Thanks for that.

In hearing no more announcements and no further business, this meeting stands adjourned. Thank you.