Daily Voice — The Alliance for Safe Kids, Inc. (ASK) is hosting its annual Save A Life Forum on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Yorktown Stage and the Yorktown Community Cultural Center. The forum is designed to inform and empower high school students and adults to be community allies and first responders to […]
Yorktown Patch — The Alliance for Safe Kids, Inc. 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 […]
Whispering Spirits, a film recently released at Jacob Burns Film Center, tells the story of Justin Veatch- a Yorktown teen who died of a drug overdose at the age of seventeen just as he was beginning his senior year at Yorktown High School. Justin was an incredibly gifted musician whose spirit lives on through his original music, which continues to […]
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 […]
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. […]
Lohud: Today, 23 suspects from all across Westchester country were arrested and charged on accounts of dealing Heroin. The arrests were a result of a year-long investigation, and about $1 million worth of drugs have been discovered and confiscated. Channel 2 (CBS) news came to the ASK office this afternoon to find out what our […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ASK takes First Place for having the Most Spirit in Yorktown’s 3rd Annual Holiday Lights Parade. On December 7, ASK was well represented in the Holiday Lights Parade by over 30 amazing youth from the Yorktown community. This year’s float theme was, “A Bright Future for Yorktown” and bright we were! The effort was communal […]