CIRV coordinator is ACTION speaker

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

William “Guy” Burney, coordinator of Youngstown’s Community Initiative to Reduce Violence, will be the honoree and guest speaker at ACTION’s Home for Good Re-Entry Resource Referral Center’s first fundraising banquet.

The Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods event is planned for April 11 at the Croatian Fraternal Union of America, Lodge 66, 3200 Vestal Road. Doors open at 6 p.m. with dinner and the program at 7. A chance auction and 50/50 raffle will be available.

Youngstown police Chief Robin Lees credited the CIRV program in a recent news article with contributing to the decline of crime in the city. Lees said CIRV identifies people, primarily youths who are at risk for involvement in criminal activity, and offers them a range of programs to assist them in getting an education or employment. The goal is to remain out of trouble.

Home for Good’s mission is to assist formerly incarcerated individuals of Mahoning and Trumbull counties in re-establishing their lives and improving their ability to make productive contributions to society.

It works to create an efficient network of resources for these individuals that will provide access to necessary and appropriate community assets. Home for Good is at 20 W. Federal St., Suite M-8.

Tickets are $30 per person and $220 per table of eight and may be obtained by contacting the office at 330-743-3700. Office hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Thursdays.

Lola Simmons is executive director of Home for Good, and Dr. M. Rosie Taylor is board president. Rosetta Carter is executive director and lead organizer of ACTION.