Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse

 This past fall, ACTS membership selected 3 new issues.  To become a leader in your community and get involved in the important work ACTS is doing on each of these three issues join us at the monthly taskforce meetings. 

Public Education

 The ACTS Education Task Force wants to see  full funding of Universal Pre-K  in the City of Syracuse to provide full day programs for all eligible four-year-olds.

 In order to realize our goal, we are in the process of gathering information on a number of topics: funding sources, relevant legislation, Pre-K efficacy research, and current Pre-K use and curricula.

We also hope to identify as many stakeholders as possible. If you are a parent or teacher of preschool age children, your input and experience would be incredibly valuable as we go through our process to effect positive change for the children of Syracuse.

Please consider joining our meetings or contacting us with your information and insight.

The Public Education Task Force meets the first Monday at 7-9pm at Grace Episcopal Church, 819 Madison St., Syracuse, NY.   

Co-Chair

Peter Knoblock

pknoblock@verizon.net

Co-Chair

Peter Kozik

pkozik@keuka.edu

 

 Secretary

Joy Casey

joycasey@verizon.net

Recorder

T.J. Geiger

geiger.tj@gmail.com

Justice

 

Food Access

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”  --MLK 

We beleive that the most basic form of health care is access to healthy food.  For several years ACTS work in this area has focused on increasing awareness of the need for a grocery store in the South Side.  Currently there are four projects working towards creating a grocery store in this area alone.  ACTS has been victorious in bringing awareness of the need for a grocery store but still sees there is a great amount of work to be done.  ACTS is currently focusing its work in this area on the corner stores.  Once upon a time we were better, because the corner store was an asset of our community. But not any longer. ACTS is committed to working to change that.  We have to send a message to the corner stores who no longer look out for their neighbors, but instead look out for the police; and who no longer sell us fresh fruits and vegetables, but instead offer us Newports and scratch offs.