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SUMMARY:Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Program - Meeting 10
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, May 7\, 2024\, the NSF Center for Smart StreetScapes (CS3) held its tenth Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Program workshop. The session was moderated by Barbara Askins and would include presentations from James Gunn\, Technical Project Manager of NYC Office of Public Safety\, and Seth Contreras\, Policy Advisor for Innovation of NYC Department of Transportation. The workshop would again include input from CPRs – Maxine Gillies\, Lead Career Coach at STRIVE and Cicely Harris\, Chair of Community Board 10 would highlight their community work.   \nAfter opening remarks by Barbara Askins\, James Gunn began the workshop with an introduction of the mission of NYC Office of Public Safety (OPS)\, emphasizing the statement that “public safety is a prerequisite to our prosperity.” OPS is led by Phil Banks\, and its staff serve as strategic advisors to the police department. The office also supports various agencies\, such as the FDNY\, Office of Criminal Justice to proactively address the safety concerns as is illustrated in the three pilot projects he would go on to highlight. FUSUS facilitates small businesses and retail outlets to voluntarily opt in to share their security camera video feeds with the NYPD\, giving local precincts real-time access as another layer of crime prevention and safety in stores. ONCAM provides video management software offering 360-degree viewing for investigations at a cheaper price. Additionally\, NYC BE SAFE aims to alter the current negative public perception on safety despite the decreasing trends in crime by introducing innovative approaches and resources in public safety. \nThe second government agency presentation was delivered by Seth Contreras\, providing an overview of the  responsibility of NYC Department of Transportation\, which includes managing streets\, sidewalks\, bridges\, bike routes\, and more\, with its $1 billion budget and $20 billion capital program. He highlighted initiatives aimed at improving pedestrian safety and connectivity\, such as median and curb extensions\, and transit signal priority at intersections for bus drivers\, which lengthens the green light and shortens the red\, resulting in improved route speeds and safety throughout NYC’s 2 thousand intersections. The department is also piloting innovative programs like Smart Curbs involving various technologies to manage freight access\, parking\, and micro hubs. Additionally\, the department is planning e-bike battery charging pilots to offer outdoor battery charging technology for delivery workers and ebike users since the city had previously banned e-bikes\, which resulted in an influx of underground sales of poorly made and dangerous products. \nFollowing the series of presentations by the city government\, CPR\, Maxine Gillies presented on the work STRIVE does to build professional skills and empower individuals for career success since its founding in 1984 in East Harlem. Offering comprehensive job readiness training including its digital skills\, coaching\, and placement services primarily within the construction and healthcare sectors\, STRIVE caters to diverse populations including recent immigrants\, returning citizens and homeless individuals\, as well as youth. In fact\, Maxine was introduced to STRIVE as a recent immigrant and after going through their program\, was later recruited as an employee.  With 14 sites across various locations\, She concluded her presentation by mentioning that CS3 could help STRIVE to reimagine its service delivery by integrating more technology into its educational programs\, and offering new tech internship and industry partnership opportunities for STRIVE to offer its clients.  \nThe final presentation was made by CPR Cicely Harris\, Chair of Community Board 10.  Cicely introduced highlights of its central Harlem neighborhood including the 125th Street BID\, Apollo Theater\, and two historic districts with demographics of a fairly high educational attainment but also a higher unemployment rate compared to Manhattan and the rest of NYC. The main concerns of this community as noted in their annual District Needs Assessment included housing\, crime & public safety\, and health and human services. She concluded her presentation with suggestions about how CS3 could help these issues\, including technology that promotes safety and security but also identity protection\, and providing the community’s youth population with paid tech internships and inclusion in these types of roundtable discussions.  \nAfter the presentations\, the session moved to the break-out groups discussion. CPRs shared their learnings\, which included a similarity of concerns represented in community district needs across all the community boards\, a discussion on the impact and risk of technology to quality of life\, and the potential of some of the city government pilot programs presented – ie\, pedestrian safety\, sanitation\, flooding issues\, and trash monitoring. They also suggested that city agencies collaborate more when it comes to using/sharing technology\, installing e-bike chargers at gas stations\, and reassessing the viability of bike paths.   \nCPR workshops are invite-only. If you are interested in attending a workshop or learning more about CS3’s community engagement process\, please contact our team at streetscapes@columbia.edu.
URL:https://cs3-erc.org/event/community-partners-in-residence-cpr-program-meeting-10/
LOCATION:Harlem\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Program - Meeting 11
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, May 14\, 2024\, the NSF Center for Smart StreetScapes (CS3) held its eleventh Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Program workshop. The session was moderated by Sharon Sputz\, which was the last one focusing on highlighting their work in the Harlem community as well as insightful two presentations from the industry side. The presentations during this session would include Sharon Sputz\, Industry Outreach Lead CS3\, and Andrew Smyth\, Principal Investigator & Chair\, CS3\, Misato Hattori\, Senior Business Development Manager\, NEC Corporation of America\, Yonette Lewis\, CPR\, Director of Operations\, Harlem Independent Living Center\, Angela Dews\, CPR\, Political Retiree\, Journalist\, Novelist\, Environmental Activist\, Gus Chalkias\, CPR\, Coordinator\, Computer Center for Visually Impaired People.  \nSharon Sputz initiated the session with opening remarks and passed the first presenter over to Andrew Smith\, who presented about GridMatrix\, AI software for critical facility optimization and visual analytics which pulls out traffic information using existing cameras. He showed two case studies\, one of which saves lives with existing cameras to prevent accidents and hazards\, respond to accidents\, reduce response times\, and rank most dangerous intersections\, while another case enabled existing cameras to track emission to improve air quality.  \nThe second presentation was delivered by Misato Hattori from NEC which has provided cash register technology\, phone and internet technology\, and biometrics technology. First she presented 5G network technology at smart intersection for road safety which uses cameras to analyze the risks\, showing the video of a case study in Hawaii\, where NEC worked with a local high school to brainstorm ideas on how to improve safety. She also discussed disaster preparedness and city resilience\, mentioning the importance of mutual support across neighbors which accounted for 80% of how the citizens were rescued in the great earthquake in Japan in 1995 compared to public support or self-help accounting for only 20%. Inspired by this survey\, she concluded that mobile digital tools could help with evacuation plans and support volunteers.  \nMoreover\, William Kenworthey from HOK\, a design firm\, presented their project to integrate design into the streetscape in Mexico City which brings cultural elements into public space using art. \nThen the session moved to the presentations by CPRs\, starting with Yonette Lewis\, one of CPRs about Harlem Independent Living Center\, a disability-focused organization that advocates for community change and empowers people to be independent. This organization is community based\, non-residential\, non-medical\, peer approach to services while their programs and services encompasses benefits advisements and advocacy\, youth services\, deaf/hard of hearing services\, and transitional support. The Transitional Support Program included housing services for mentally ill or substance abusers (HRA 2010e) and medicaid enrollment assistance\, and finding an accessible home in the community\, according to her.  \nThe second CPR presentation is delivered by Angela Dews\, Political Retiree\, Journalist\, Novelist\, Environmental Activist. Sharing her personal narrative to age in Harlem\, she mentioned that landmarks have changed overtime\, being hard to navigate home. Concerning what seniors need to step out of isolation\, she raised six elements – “accessibility\,” “bike lanes and bus lanes\,” and “curb nuts and ramp bumps\,” “park safety\,” “preservation\,” “utilities.”  \nAnother CPR\, Gus Chalkias\, Coordinator\, Computer Center for Visually Impaired People\, gave a final presentation of this session. Starting with his feeling of his isolation as a blind person\, feeling alone in a crowd\, avoided when walking with a cane or ignored\, he has worked with Helen Keller Services for the blind\, which teaches people how to use technology in their day to day lives as well as professional education at NYU for engineering students about assistive technology.  He introduced some accessibility including accessibility tools in iPhone which can do voiceover to read what is on the screen and flick through the apps systematically\, “Seeing AI” app which reads printed material and paper money\, and “Be my eyes” which can take a picture and use AI to describe what’s in the room. He concluded his presentation with the message that those tools should be also available on the street to everyone.  \nThe session then moved to the break-out groups discussion. There were several learnings shared by CPRs such as the importance of inclusivity with aging in place and proactive approach to landscape and spending\, and the need of blind accessible technology.  \nCPR workshops are invite-only. If you are interested in attending a workshop or learning more about CS3’s community engagement process\, please contact our team at streetscapes@columbia.edu.
URL:https://cs3-erc.org/event/community-partners-in-residence-cpr-program-meeting-11/
LOCATION:Harlem\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Program - Meeting 12
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, May 21\, 2024\, the NSF Center for Smart StreetScapes (CS3) held its twelfth/final Community Partners in Residence (CPR) workshop to conclude the first cohort. The session began with Ester Fuchs presenting a summary document called the ‘Harlem Community Needs Assessment’ created by coding data (presentation discussions\, breakout sessions\, questions\, and surveys) that emerged from all previous CPR working sessions and surveys.  This resulted in 3 categories of focus: 1= General Community Needs; 2 = StreetScape Community Needs; and 3 = Community Engagement & Education Needs.  There were also specific areas of focus within each of the 3 categories using language provided by the CPRs themselves.  While the first 2 focused on areas we expected to emerge in these discussions\, ie\, public safety\, accessibility\, sanitation\, public health\, economic opportunity\, etc\, this process showed that Community Engagement and Education needs also emerged as an important category/need from the workshop conversations – these included the need for education to understand technology and the research\, among this group.   \nAndrew Smyth then addressed the group by thanking everyone for their participation and commitment to this project. He noted the challenges inherent in this work\, and that this was only the beginning.  The CS3 research team had been given ideas as to the kinds of things they should be thinking about before the CPR component began to help prioritize which challenges needed more focus and time\, how to present issues\, etc.  This project is ultimately not only about technical issues\, it is about rolling research out to the community together\, trying to anticipate all the challenges\, win over the government\, etc. He noted the brainstorming sessions were really useful for the researchers with 4 main unexpected takeaways: 1 – we have a real opportunity for us to celebrate & support the cultural identity & history of Harlem; we can do this with AR/VR\, overlaying history\, accompanying with music\, etc\, but we need to drill down specifics and we must; 2 – elements for elderly & people with disabilities to navigate the city\, we have researchers focused on this already but we need to do this with more detail and greater clarity about what to work toward and fight off; 3 – CS3 can potentially assist in equitable and effective policing; we can collaborate in this area beyond targeting and profiling\, etc; 4 – Street chaos issues\, traffic congestion\, double parking\, delivery bikes\, bike lane implementations\, bus lanes\, etc; these things came up frequently and CS3 should pick an exact collaboration in these areas and run with it to respond well.  This list is not scientific\, but seems obvious. He added that CS3 can be helpful in training and educational programs\, which is not a streetscape solution that we had previously thought of\, but are opportunities that can be given to the community. Lastly\, what are the next steps for each CPR?  We thought there might be a CPR alumni group – perhaps stay together in active ways (ie\, mentorship)\, or less active (receiving the CS3 newsletter).  CPRs are CS3’s most in-tune partners at this moment. We have projects coming up this summer with seniors and students and other opportunities to engage\, if desired\, and CS3 wants to activate more with this group outside of this room. We also discussed an Ad hoc Community Review Board – perhaps a subset of CPRs that would help inform applications and locations for this work to deploy.  \nBarbara picked up the discussion by saying that she loves Harlem and feels like Harlem is never fully understood\, people on the outside see it but don’t always understand what they are looking at\, and so it is important that we can bring this work out of this room.  We have identified needs\, learned a lot from scientists\, and researchers learned a lot from us\, but how do we start matching all this up?  We need to discuss how you all can stay involved.  We don’t want to make assumptions\, because right now even you are on the outside looking in\, and we need to make sure we can stay connected emotionally\, hold onto the knowledge we learned/that the CPRs articulated.  She listed the following questions & suggestions: CS3 develops programs with CPRs and matches organizations with them; institutional knowledge is very valuable -we can form a CPR Council of (former) members to serve as our most knowledgeable resources in the community since we do not want to start over\, how do we keep this group engaged – build into NSF structure?; Are there opportunities for this group to interact with Cohort 2 – at their opening reception?; bringing the knowledge to the greater Harlem Community – Harlem is big and cohort 1 is our only Ambassador group so far and we only have 1 Jessica Elliot to voice for the entire East Harlem section\, how do we scale?; perhaps we create community engagement evaluators & watchdogs\, where Cohort 1 serves as eyes & ears that now has a relationship with CS3 and CS3 trusts them.   \nBarbara played a video the 125th St BID & the HOPE Center created about keeping Harlem’s streets clean with neighborhood youth as messengers – it was a fun\, social\, 1-minute campaign that was a lighter touch with effective outcomes.  It engaged the community beyond people who have degrees and have been recruited into a program\, because CS3 also has to also meet the people where they are and where the work gets done. This could be done by activating competitions among youth and inspiring neighborhood people to make communications for CS3. Barbara also discussed ideas for outreach to a 2nd CPR Cohort\, noting there should be representatives from community boards in every cohort (same individuals or not)\, we need to examine discussions around the hot topics and how we can elevate those in discussion with cohort 2 like aging in place\, more discussions around business\, disabilities\, which new groups we should add.  She asked each CPR to state what they want to see happen next.  There was concern expressed about transferring this project to a private company; a question about how CS3 can more deeply engage CPR groups with government partners; discussion about how CS3 plans to message about this project and what may be expected from community boards; the value of consistent & universal talking points for CS3 to provide to CPRs/stakeholders to share in the community; there were numerous references made to the importance of inclusion: of a variety of disability representation – all have different needs and experiences\, community based organizations\, business\, youth\, seniors\, cultural groups\, and multilingual participants. \nWhen polled\, every CPR wanted to stay involved going forward.  With that\, the meeting concluded with Ester thanking Lynda Hamilton for managing these workshops behind the scenes and creating CPR Certificates of Completion\, which Andrew and Barbara presented to each CPR with photos\, and a group photo\, followed by the closing reception and dinner catered by Dinosaur Barbeque. \nCPR workshops are invite-only. If you are interested in attending a workshop or learning more about CS3’s community engagement process\, please contact our team at streetscapes@columbia.edu.
URL:https://cs3-erc.org/event/community-partners-in-residence-cpr-program-meeting-12/
LOCATION:Harlem\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community
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