Community Garden Of Resilience Moves One Step Closer

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The Linden SDA Community Outreach team canvassed the block of the future community garden to meet local residents and ask them to join us.

The Linden SDA Community Outreach Team canvassed the block of our future community garden. The Linden SDA Community Outreach team are 8th graders fulfilling their community service hours for graduation. In partnership with the STEAM for Social Change Program at their school, students prepared for three weeks to engage with local community residents on the importance of signing a petition to ensure the garden comes to fruition. The STEAM for Social Change Program is a program designed by DIVAS for Social Justice and currently runs programming in three schools in Laurelton. The Linden SDA Community Outreach team concentrated on canvassing the block of  the abandoned lot where the garden will be. The community outreach team successfully signed up 16 neighbors to actively participate in the community garden. The Linden SDA Community Outreach team will be next by the LIRR Laurelton station cleaning up garbage and debris by the local murals and recruiting more potential members for the Community Garden of Resilience.

Future home of Community Garden of Resilience at
179-54 145th Rd.
Meeting and signing up local community residents to participate in the garden.
Students get ready to do community outreach
Students get ready for community outreach
Going from door to door.
Meeting local community residents and signing them up for the garden.
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Clarisa James
Clarisa James is the Co-Founder/Executive Director of DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice. For the past seven years DIVAS has provided free or sliding scale technology training to youth in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn and Southeast Queens. Ms. James has been dedicated to youth development work for the past 15years in the roles of Teaching Artist, After School Director, Curriculum Specialist and artist. Her life's work encompasses empowering youth in underserved communities to use technology for social change and think critically about the issues that are affecting them most. For the past seven years Ms. James has facilitated workshops that help youth develop multimedia projects around environmental justice, housing, leadership development and reproductive justice. Ms. James holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College's Film & Media Department. In addition to DIVAS for Social Justice, Ms. James currently serves on the advisory board of the Children’s Cabinet, Office of the Deputy Mayor Strategic Policy Initiatives at City Hall. Clarisa James is full of gratitude to her parents for providing such a wonderful upbringing and having the foresight to move into the community of Laurelton in the early 1970's. Clarisa is proud to be a daughter of Laurelton.