Rose Park Neighborhood Association | The historic Rose Park neighborhood is located in the City of Long Beach, California

All families should be able to walk to school feeling safe and experience a healthy environment.

For the last day of Long Beach Walk to School Week, Rose Park resident, Sylvia Salcedo and her husband Ed Campbell handed out pastries and coffee to families walking to school along Dawson Avenue and 6th Street.

*Rose Park Neighborhood Resident, Sylvia Salcedo (pictured on left) hands out coffee and pastries and talks with neighbors who walk their kids to school every morning*

Sylvia, Ed and residents have worked for over a year to find a solution to cleaning up the area from the chronic trash, waste, graffiti and bicycle chop shop activities occurring in the area.

So, the work continues and here is how neighbors can help!

1. Walk the alleyway behind Pizza X Two on 7th and Dawson Avenue with LBPD Eastside Commander Richens on Friday, April 1 at 1:30pm.

2. Help us advocate for a signal at E7th Street and a Dawson Avenue. Construction has begun on E7th and Dawson for 23-unit townhomes. Let’s make safer streets for families walking and rolling in our neighborhood and let’s bridge our community from the north and south side of E7th!

3. Let’s engage and educate property owners to ensure safer, healthier streets!

Change starts with neighbors coming together!

#LBWalktoSchool #LBSuperSustainable #SafeStreetsLB #SafeNeighborhoodsLB #Action4NeighborhoodChange

The City of Long Beach Alternate Crisis Response Pilot Program is hosting two workshops to offer residents the chance to provide feedback about the proposed Alternate Crisis Response program. This program is envisioned as a non-law enforcement alternate crisis response team to respond to non-violent, non-emergent, non-medical calls for service related to mental health crises.

Both virtual and in-person options are available and offer interpretation in Spanish, Khmer and Tagalog.

Virtual Workshop, Wednesday, March 23, 6 to 8 p.m. Register here: https://longbeach-gov.zoom.us/…/tJwtcOuopjovGNV…

In-person Workshop, Saturday, April 2, 9 to 11 a.m. California Recreation Community Center at Ernest McBride Park, 1550 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. Register here: https://forms.office.com/g/hZat4A1nim

Please use the registration link to request interpretation.

Recommendations received at the community workshops will help shape the design of the program, including how the response teams will operate.

The Alternate Crisis Response Program was outlined as a potential action in goal three of the Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative, “create non-police, civilian emergency response teams to respond to respond to non-violent calls for service.” After community feedback is received, the proposed program will be presented to the Long Beach City Council. It is anticipated the program will be implemented later this year.