Daily Yorktown– More than two-dozen Yorktown and Lakeland students don’t just follow the rules, they teach them in their own court of law. On Wednesday, these students graduated from the first phase of their training of the Alliance for Safe Kids’ Youth Court, a court that allows for certain youth offenders in Yorktown to be […]
Yorktown Patch– Middle and high school students sentenced a young man Wednesday night to 35 hours of community service for having broken into Yorktown High School, damaging property and stealing $150 from a teacher’s desk. That was not a real-life case. It was a mock trial they presented to friends and family during Yorktown Youth Court graduation […]
Daily Yorktown– The Alliance for Safe Kids held a training session for alcohol vendors last week as part of its continuous effort to keep residents and businesses informed. ASK, in collaboration with the Yorktown Police Department, Yorktown Justice Court and Hudson Valley Hospital, opened the training to all businesses that sell alcohol to provide awareness […]
Yorktown Patch— Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK) hosted the Responsible Vendor Training, which open to all businesses that sell alcohol in Yorktown. The training, which took place last week, is conducted in collaboration with the Yorktown Police Department, Yorktown Justice Court, and Hudson Valley Hospital to provide awareness and education to servers and sellers of […]
Yorktown Patch– Four organizations partner to form “Yorktown Community Partners” in an attempt to help each other promote events and support each others’ programs in an attempt to raise awareness within the community. The Yorktown Chamber of Commerce has entered a new partnership with Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK), Support Connection and the D.A.R.E. program, Chamber of […]
Daily Yorktown– The Alliance for Safe Kids hosted a “Family Fun Festival” in Cortlandt, at the Colonial Terrace Mansion on Sunday. Incorporated in 2006, the agency has made it a goal to educate the Yorktown and Cortlandt area on hard-hitting adolescent issues like drugs, gangs and gambling. “We didn’t really have a goal in mind,” […]
Daily Cortlandt– Leon Drogy, vice president of the Mansion at Colonial Terrace, is certainly not new at hosting fundraising events at his restaurant. However, this weekend he’s trying to reach an audience a bit different from his usual clientele. “We always do so many fundraisers for the kids where the parents are the ones at […]
LoHud Blogs— The Alliance for Safe Kids honored the class of 2011 Youth Court graduates on Monday, Feb. 7. at Yorktown Justice Town Court. Lakeland High School Junior Mary Alice Hall accepts her Youth Court certificate. From left, Police Det. Brian Shanahan, Town Justice Salvatore Lagonia, Hall, ASK President Tricy Cushner, ASK Special Projects Director […]
North County News– The Alliance For Safe Kids, a local nonprofit organization geared toward protecting and educating the community’s youth, plans to keep busy in February by screening two informational documentaries, distributing a student survey and co-sponsoring workshops for teens and adults, all free to the public. At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, the […]
Yorktown Patch– The Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK) aspires to cast as wide and tight a safety net for any young person who lives in Yorktown, but doing so relies on a less direct approach compared to other youth support initiatives. “Our goal is to affect the environment and not individual choices,” said Lisa Tomeny, […]