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City of St. Louis Black History Month Celebration

The office of the City of St. Louis Recorder of Deeds presented a wonderful Black History Month Celebration on February 20, 2025 at City Hall. CRCSTL was a proud partner for this event and was on hand to support the celebration and answer questions about our free services to City residents. The event featured honorees Ohun Ashe, Alice Prince, Ed.D., and John Saunders, Jr., along with food, performances by Saint Louis Story Stitchers, and educational black history displays for citizens to take in.

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OVP Kickback-Gamble Recreation Center ☀️

The St. Louis City’s Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) hosted another great community event on February 15, 2025. During colder months, this event gets moved indoors and this month it was hosted by hosted at Gamble Recreation Center. We are always happy to have the opportunity to spread the word about our free services around conflict resolution and promote de-escalation in hopes of preventing violence.

These are free neighborhood events, providing residents a place to gather and access local resources for violence prevention, behavior health, conflict mediation/de-escalation, trauma, and youth programming. Each future event will be hosted in new locations on the third Saturday of every month.

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STLMHC Winter Happy Hour 🏘

At CRCSTL, we are passionate about keeping people housed. This same mission is also important to St. Louis Metro Housing Collective (STLMHC). STLMHC is a group of service providers, landlords, and other community stakeholders to promote housing stability and reduce homelessness. On Thursday, January 16, 2025, STLMHC hosted its Winter Happy Hour to bring stakeholders together for a meet and mingle. CRCSTL’s own, Sheila Webster, was on hand to talk to landlords and partner agencies to ensure that we are getting the word out about how our free services can help both tenants and landlords.

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OVP Meeting Honoring Wil Pinkney ☀️

At the last City of St. Louis' Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) meeting of the year, the group gave thanks to Wil Pinkney (OVP Director) who was moving onto another opportunity. Wil has been a wonderful supporter of CRCSTL & our Student-Led Peer Mediation (SLPM) program and will be greatly missed amongst the entire St. Louis peacebuilding community. 🕊

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#People4Peace Fundraiser ☮️

CRCSTL kicked off our #People4Peace fundraiser on November 19, 2024. We had a goal to raise at least $8,000 during this single-day fundraiser, and we feel so grateful that we exceeded our goal raising more than $10,000 generously gifted by more than 50 individual donors. Community support helps us provide our services to neighbors in need at low or no cost. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Just some examples of where the money goes:

  • $28 provides one student with supplies for the Student-Led Peer Mediation program.

  • $59 provides 1 of the 8 Steps of Housing Support so people can stay in their homes and avoid eviction.

  • $118 provides 2 of the 8 Steps of Housing Support so people can stay in their homes and avoid eviction.

  • $216 provides one training for Student-Led Peer Mediation.

  • $305 supports one conflict interaction through our Community Case work.

  • $474 provides resolution of one Eviction Prevention Housing case.

Thank you to our generous benefactors who donated matching funds ensuring each gift was doubled:

  • Jesse De Graftenreed

  • Don Morgan

  • Mary Wheeler

  • Bill Duffe

  • Let’s Build Hope

Our Executive Director, Wolf Smith, is known for having brightly colored hair. As part of this campaign, Wolf offered to let the person who brought in the most individual donors select their next hair color. We ended up with a tie between Mary Wheeler and Let’s Build Hope. Wolf headed to the salon for the surprise reveal - orange and purple for a sunset hair moment. 🧡💜

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