✂️ • REAL CONVERSATIONS • COMMUNITY HEALING ✂️
Join us for the next Community-Police Relations Forum on Friday, February 20, 2026, from 5:00–7:00 PM at the Florida Barber Institute.
This important forum will continue the conversation on gun violence awareness and prevention, with a focused discussion on the connection between mental health and gun violence. Together, we will create a safe, trusted, and solution-driven space for community members, youth, parents, educators, and public safety partners to share perspectives, ask questions, and explore prevention-centered strategies.
💈 Free haircuts will be provided
🗣️ Open dialogue & community voices
🤝 Resources, partnerships, and solutions
Come be part of the conversation. Bring a friend, bring your questions, and help us strengthen our community—one conversation at a time.
🌟 THRIVE: Educate. Prevent. Empower. 🌟
Empowering Northeast Florida to build safer, healthier communities through education and engagement.
📅 Date: March 6, 2026
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Location: The Ritz Theatre
829 N. Davis St
Jacksonville, FL 32202
🎤 Event Highlights:
Join us for a moderated panel discussion featuring local experts, covering:
- Know the Law
- Mental Health & Me
- Health & Wellness
🔗 RSVP by: February 20, 2026
📧 Email: monique.johnson@jaxul.org
Paid wholly or in part by the State of Florida Office of the Attorney General.
Community Crime Prevention and Intervention Services
Strengthening, Empowering and Engaging the Community to Keep Safe
The Jacksonville Urban League is committed to reducing crimes in Jacksonville focusing on Prevention as a long-term strategy.
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Prevention – reducing factors associated with at-risk behaviors and strengthening protective factors.
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Intervention – focus on individuals already engaged in at-risk behaviors.
Youth Development
The JUL Youth Crime Prevention Program offers activities and workshops that help youth build resilience, strengthen critical thinking, and develop problem-solving and decision-making skills. Our program is proudly supported by the Office of the State Attorney General in partnership with the Florida Urban Leagues' coalition.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Members are made of a diverse group of advocates charged with providing strategic advice, guidance, recommendations, resources, implementation, networking and facilitation of youth crime prevention services/resources.
| Name | Organization |
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| Richard Hendley | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office |
| Jonetta Buxton | State Attorney's Office |
| Tonya Porter | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office |
| Dennis Stone | Jacksonville Urban League |
| Chris Garrison | Clay County Sheriff's Office |
| Yasheika Solomon | Epilepsy Alliance Foundation |
| Andy Latimer | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office |
| Omar Simmons | Center for Children's Rights |
| Desirae George | United Way Full Service Schools |
| Ronnie Graham | Florida Health Justice Project |
| Deangelo Brown | United States Postal Service / Edward Waters University |
| Nick Duke | Northeast Florida Healthy Start |
| Marsha Davis | Northeast Florida Healthy Start |
| Octavis Holliday | State Attorney's Office |
| Sylvester Bradley | EconoTeque / Thankful M.B. Church |
| Randy Case | Orange Park Police Department |
SERVICE LOCATIONS
Workshops are facilitated at the Jacksonville Urban League, afterschool programs, neighborhood housing complexes, private schools, charter schools, churches and community-based organizations. WE WILL COME TO YOU!
Contact Ms. Monique Johnson for more information: monique.johnson@jaxul.org | 904-723-4026
The Jacksonville Urban League cannot support these programs without YOU!
Please click here to DONATE and give generously.
THANK YOU!
