Hope’s Door at Save A Life 2015

ASK’s annual Save A Life event is designed to inform and empower high school students and adults to be community allies and first responders to support teens and families in crisis. In order to achieve this, several workshops will be directed by professionals from several organizations that specialize in prominent safety issues faced by teens each day. Hope’s […]

ASK Featured on “Grace Notes” Talk Show

Yorktown Town Supervisor Michael Grace and moderator Bruce Apar sat down with ASK volunteers this evening on their talk show, “Grace Notes.” Volunteers Jenna Gammer, YHS Senior and class of 2015 President, and Anna Carbone, YHS alumnus and Junior atMarist College, spoke with Supervisor Grace and Mr. Apar extensively about ASK’s upcoming Save A Life event. […]

125 Arrested As Part Of Yearlong Westchester Heroin Sweep

CBS NY— Authorities in Westchester County launched a series of raids Tuesday as part of a yearlong campaign targeting heroin distributors. Twenty of the suspects were arrested in coordinated, daybreak raids, CBS2’s Lou Young reported. Overall, the operation has netted 125 suspects. Tuesday’s raids targeted suspects in Yorktown, Cortlandt and Peekskill who allegedly fed a network of heroin users in quiet […]

ALLIANCE FOR SAFE KIDS TO HOST 5th ANNUAL SAVE A LIFE FORUM

The Alliance for Safe Kids, Inc. (ASK) is hosting the fifth annual Save A Life Forum on Sunday, February, 8 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Yorktown Stage and the Yorktown Community Cultural Center located at 1974 Commerce Street, Yorktown, NY 10598. Save A Life is a program designed to inform and empower […]

ASK Volunteers Present at Town Hall Meeting

On January 6th at 7:30 p.m., two ASK volunteers presented before the Yorktown Town Board at their Town Hall meeting. Jenna Gammer, a current Yorktown High School Senior and Anna Carbone, a graduate of the Yorktown High School Class of 2012 and current Junior at Marist College, teamed up to tell the board how ASK is […]

Yorktown Celebrates Red Ribbon Week

Daily Voice — Yorktown is celebrating Red Ribbon Week, a national effort to educate children about the dangers of drug and alcohol use, through Monday, Oct. 27. Red Ribbon Week has grown into the most far-reaching and well-known drug prevention campaign in America. It began to honor a drug enforcement agent who was killed in […]

Yorktown Annual Outdoor Movie & Concert Slated for July 17th

Yorktown Patch – The Yorktown Annual Outdoor Movie & Concert will take place on Thursday, July 17 at 7:15 p.m.The Alliance For Safe Kids presents The Uncle Brothers Concert at 7:15 pm followed by a presentation of The Lego Movie beginning at dusk.This event is sponsored by Yorktown Parks & Rec, the Alliance For Safe Kids, the Yorktown PBA, The Yorktown Chamber of Commerce, the Law […]

ASK hosts Yorktown Community Day

Your Yorktown – The best barbecue, businesses and entertainment Yorktown has to offer was on display last Saturday at Jack DeVito Field at Yorktown’s 25th Annual Community Day, presented by the Alliance for Safe Kids.  The free event featured the 9th Annual Taste of Yorktown, where local restaurants and amateur chefs competed in a cook-off […]