Van Stone Philadelphia Campaign Platform In Brief For Pa State Rep 190th District Election Primary 2020

Much Younger Version of "Van Stone, Philadelphia

List of Neighborhoods of the Pennsylvania State Representative 190th
District

Strawberry Mansion, East Park, Westpark, Mill Creek, Allegheny West, West Parkside, East Parkside, Belmont, Belmont/Girard Avenue, Brewerytown, Wynnefield, Wynnefield Heights, Overbrook, Mantua, Powelton Villiage, Cathedral Park, Carroll Park, Fairmount, Haddington, Dunlap, Haverford North, Sharswood, Walnut Hill,

 CANDIDATE PLATFORM STATEMENT

Samuel Van Stone Downing, Community-Organizer-Activist, Political Analyst, Block Captain, Editor and Publisher, News Journalist-Poet, Professional Storyteller and Consultant

Exploratory Candidate for Pennsylvania State Legislator 190^th District Serving West/North Philadelphia-Area

Endorsed by: None have endorsed at this time

Registered Political Party: Registered Democrat (Independent Democrat); Formerly Registered Independent

Disclosure: Nothing further about the candidate’s 
disclosure about his political exploratory 

Political Leadership Roles in the 190^th State Rep. District of Philadelphia-Area

Cathedral Park Association Community Affairs Rep. Catherine Minnis 1985-2019

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, State Rep. Mike Horsey 1997-2004

West Philadelphia Coalition of Neighborhoods and Businesses Empowerment Zone Rep. 1994-1998

Political Leadership Roles in the 195^th State Rep. District of Philadelphia-Area

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, Committee-person John A. Williams 2014-2019

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, Judge Jimmie Moore 2010-2011

Campaign Manager/Campaign Advisor Warren Bloom for City Commissioner 2007

Political Leadership Roles in the 188^th State Rep. District of Philadelphia-Area

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, Friends of Spruce Hill/West Park1997-2019

Political Leadership Roles in the 186^th State Rep. District of Philadelphia-Area

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, State Rep. Kenyatta Johnson 2010-2012

Political Leadership Roles in Candidate Races Citywide of Philadelphia-Area

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, Committee-person Judge Jimmie Moore 2014-2015  

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, District Attorney Seth Williams, 2010-2011

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, Court of Common Pleas Judge Adam Beloff 2009-2010

Chief Community Action Volunteer Affiliate, Municipal Court Judge Dawn A Segal 2009-2010

Constitution Party Philadelphia Regional Rep. Affiliation 2007-2008

Campaign Manager/Campaign Advisor Kerry Foster for City Mayor 2007-2008 

Green Party Philadelphia Secretary Regional Rep Affiliation 2006-2007

Political Leadership Roles in the Borough of Yeadon-Area

Chief of Human Affairs, Children Ed, Health and Immigration Operations, Community Safety Office of Mayor of Yeadon, Rohan Hepkins 2015-2018

Non-Political Leadership Roles in the 190^th District of Philadelphia-Area

Van Stone Productions Foundation Non-Profit Founder/President Board Member 1980-2019  
Friends of Parkside Neighborhood Association Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 1989-2019

Friends of Cathedral Park Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 1990-2019 

Van Stone Productions Foundation Town Watch and 52^nd Street Rangers Safety Committee 2007-2019

Lee Cultural Center and Playground Advisory Council Non-Profit Group Pres. Advisory 2003-2017

Friends of Millcreek Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 1999-2016     

Friends of Haddington Playground Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Services Committee 1995-2015

Friends of Carroll Park Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Services Committee 1995-2015

Friends of Lee Cultural Center and Playground Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 1992-2007

Friends of Walnut Hill Neighborhood Association Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 1980-2004  

Lee Playground Community Organization Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Committee 1979-2002

West Park Advisory Council Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 1992-2001

Friends of Paul Robeson House Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 1995-2000

Friends of James Wright Recreation Center Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Committee 1980-2000

Friends of George Institute Branch of Free Library of Philadelphia Chair Reading Committee 1986-1999

Friends of Belmont Neighborhood Improvement Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Committee 1981-1999

Friends of Whitby Ave and Southwest Philly Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Committee 1993-1997

Non-Political Leadership Roles in the 195^th District

Friends of the Mander Playground and Dell East Non-Profit Group Chair Affairs Committee 2002-2019

Friends of Blaine Elementary School/Van Stone Productions Non-Profit Group Youth Services 2013-2018

Non-Political Leadership Roles in the 188^th District

Malcom X Park/Van Stone Productions Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Services Committee 1983-2019

Friends of Kingsessing Playground/Van Stone Productions Non-Profit Group Youth Services 1993-2019

Friends of Cedar Park/Van Stone Productions Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Services 1986-2017

Friends of Clark Park/Van Stone Productions Non-Profit Group Chair Youth Services 2002-2014

Non-Political Leadership Roles in the 186^th District

Friends of Vare Recreation Center/Van Stone Productions Non-Profit Chair Youth Services 1999-2015

Friends of Alexander Wilson School/Van Stone Productions Org Chair Youth Services 2009-2011  

Friends of 48^th and Woodland Avenue Playground/Van Stone Org. Chair Youth Services 1994-2010

Friends of Tasker Homes Projects/Van Stone Productions Non-Profit Chair Youth Services 1994-2002

Non-Political Leadership Roles in the Community Citywide of Philadelphia-Area

Foster Care Advocate Assembly of Foster Care Parents and Foster Children – Appointed Commenter 2000-2019

LGTBQ Youth Advocate Assembly of Scholars and Poets – Appointed Commenter 1981-2019

Court Fighter Advocate Assembly of Court Abuse Victims and Know Your Rights Leaders – Appointed Commenter 2004-2019 

Youth Health and Safety, Anti-Gang and End Gun Violence Advocate Assembly of Scholars and Community Activist – Appointed Commenter 1980-2019

Public Safety Advocate Assembly of Safety Officers and Community Leaders – Appointed Commenter 2004-2019

Black Studies/Black Indians Advocate Assembly of Scholars and Poets – Appointed Commenter 1981-2019

Ex-offenders Association Advocate Assembly of Ex-offenders and Community Leaders – Appointed Commenter 2003-2018

American Muslim Advocate Assembly of Scholars and Poets – Appointed Commenter 1981-2015

Philadelphia Police Clergy Official Spokesperson Assembly of Clergy – Appointed Commenter 2006-2012

State Rep. Kenyatta Johnson Leadership Award Recipient 2011

Lucien Blackwell Leadership Award Recipient 2010                        

Philadelphia School District Huey Elementary Assembly of Scholars and Poets - Appointed Commenter 2005-2009

Thoughts of the Black Man Advocate Assembly of Scholars and Poets – Appointed President/Commenter 2004-2007

Meeting Activities in the 190^th District

Community Services Voter Registration; Food Cupboard; Senior Support; Area Beautification; Economic Development Committee – President 1980-2019

Youth Services Education; Performing Arts; Sports; Summer Camp Committee – President 1980-2019

Public Health Mental Health and Wellness Committee – President 1983-2019

Public Safety Town Watch Committee – Chair Board Member 1983-2018

Meeting Activities in the 195^th District

Community Services Voter Registration; Food Cupboard; Senior Support; Area Beatification; Economic Development Committee – President 1980-2019

Youth Services Education; Performing Arts; Sports; Summer Camp Committee – President 1980-2019

Public Safety Block Watch Committee – Chair Board Member 2014-2018

Public Health Mental Health and Wellness Committee – President 1983-2018

Meeting Activities in the 188^th District

Community Services: Voter Registration Committee; Food Cupboard Committee; Senior Support Committee; Area Beatification Committee; Economic Development Committee – President 1980-2019

Public Health: Mental Health and Wellness Committee – President 1983-2019

Youth Services: Education Committee; Performing Arts Committee; Sports Committee; Summer Camp Committee – President 1980-2017

Public Safety: Town Watch Committee – Chair Board Member 1985-2010

Biography

Occupation: Child Care Teacher/Crossing Guard/Ground Maintenance Worker/News-Journalist-Commentator/Family-Counseling-Consultant-Entrepreneur  

Education: University City High School, 1980 Cheyney University 1980-1981, Community College 1990-1991, Childcare Paraprofessional Courses and Trainings, 1981-2019

I, Samuel Van Stone Downing, (my friends, my neighbors, my chapel, fire and police associates, and my affiliates working in the home and school businesses, and my comic strip, storywriter, and creative media buddies all know me affectionately as, Van Stone), am honored to become a participant who would undergo exploratory questioning so that the Philadelphia residents would choose the person who qualify to win the candidacy of Pennsylvania state legislator serving the 190^th District Philadelphia-Area.

I have been resident in this city for 56 years. I am a Native American. I am of the Native American Tribe, Lenni Lenape Indians, also known as the Delaware Indian. I am a modern day Black American Indian (or Black Indian), born in North Philadelphia but raised in West Philadelphia since the age of 2. If elected, I will be the first Black American Indian Pennsylvania state legislator serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvanians. I have previously served as a special volunteer worker on the board of well-established citywide community organizations, both at the local and state level. My basic volunteer work includes, but are not limited to, Community Services, Public Health, Youth Services and Public Safety.  Being a specialist leads me into another important introduction. I am the founder of the Van Stone Productions (VSP) Foundation 501c3 organization and have served as its founder and president ever since 1980.

My goal, if elected as the Pennsylvania state legislator of the 190^th District, is to offer perspectives from the next generation who will inherit the work of the qualified specialist. I will ensure that the community activist will receive the award of Pennsylvania state legislature appropriated funds sufficient to complete any original plan that will make a difference in our community. In doing so, in the Pennsylvania House of Representative 190^th District, I will leverage the Pennsylvania state legislator’s key resources. If elected I will push for the Pennsylvania state legislature to adopt a measure providing the City of Philadelphia with funds for the volunteer specialist working childcare and public safety duties such as proving community counseling work, working in daycare centers and public schools, patrolling as well as cleaning and repairing streets, city blocks and playgrounds for the use of the poor of the city. In addition, I will push for Pennsylvania state legislature to adopt a measure providing the City of Philadelphia with funds for free legal aid for family court custody issues and ex-offender paid volunteer community services work for the use of the poor of the city. And I will appeal to the Pennsylvania legislature, asking permission and for assistance to adopt a bill authorizing the Pennsylvania state legislator of the 190^th District to have increased funds for building a new community spirit of relief providing Reparations of monies to all Black American families be they children, adults or seniors. I will share the effectiveness of experience and fresh ideas to optimize the 190^th District’s neighborhoods’ growth potential. This state of things in Philadelphia, especially speaking about Philadelphia’s 190^th Pennsylvania state legislators 190^th District can be tolerated no longer.  Either the service of the city its areas by district and Ward must be abandoned, or we, the politicians, the registered voters must conform with the improved views and methods of modern times.

During my term, I will also assign the role of Gentrification Reversal Committee Liaison, Reparations Potential Liaison Committee (putting funds into the hands of Black Americans), Home Preservation and Community Preservation Liaison Committee, Judicial Family Court Complaints Committee Liaison, Municipal Court Reforms Committee Liaison, Foster Care Parents Support Committee Liaison, Ex-Offender Aide Committee Liaison, as well as Youth Employment and Better Health Committee Liaison, Childcare and School Public Safety Professional Salary Study Committee Liaison and Public Safety Patrol Committee Liaison which shall provide me the opportunity to guide the direction of the North, West and Southwest Philadelphia’s newer social, safe and financial presence. I will launch studies for mandatory wage increase for childcare paraprofessionals such as all paid staff in daycare, teachers’ aides and teacher’s assistants, crossing guards and foster parents alike. From my point of view paraprofessionals working directly with children, regardless if they have at least 2 years of college credits, certificate trainings or not, are grossly paid too low. I will launch studies for ending required licenses to becoming a business barber and other trades working with hair. This venture will undoubtedly yield massive dividends for not only the residents of the 190^th district but our residents citywide.

I will launch community resource centers in space any school may be able to spare as long as the school principal has agreed for their school to be adopted for such purposes. This venture will undoubtedly yield quick support to families in need of communication, arbitration, extracurricular-actuation, and consolidation making a difference. Going forward as a new style of community activist, I will increasingly communicate through these powerful programs as they will provide unique avenues to disseminate the residents of the 190^th District message.

I have a strong interest in urgent care.

This past year, I helped plan and direct a Youth Hub course for unemployed and underemployed youth and children activities. The theme of the hub is arts and education, employment support and guidance and care support for Philadelphia youth. I also helped plan and direct an emergency smoking cessation service and family prevention program for teens and adults in Philadelphia. Cessation of nicotine, tobacco, opioid and limiting exposure to secondhand smoke will be the targets.  I plan to expand a Block Captain course for already in progress for adults to improve neighborhoods that are suffering the most.  These courses were extremely successful and provided an invaluable opportunity for our neighbors to get hands-on, practical experience with counseling procedures, youth services education and safer and cleaner neighborhoods.

Recently, I proposed a concept centered around the 46^th and Market Street Building, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA. for the residents of both Westpark and Mill Creek.  A new Community Liaison Coordinator Task Force-Group could be implemented to follow in the footsteps Paul Busti, Isaac Holden, John A. Lee, as well as Thomas Kirkbride had done.  These 4 past founders and builders of a better Philadelphia community made a difference. I can only hope to do the same.    

I see urgent care as a means by which children, youth and adults can diversify and protect themselves from major swings in gentrification, ignoring Reparations, ruining property values, family court custody battles, foster care and DHS crisis, criminal justice reforms, youth unemployment, youth health, daycare worker salary and crossing guard salary, crime levels that could have potentially serious negative impacts on children, parents, teachers, and the Black community.

In my spare time I have a family with both biological and foster kids, publish a 190 thousand a day readership and viewer online newspapers, magazines, blogs and Facebook pages, teach youth artwork class and comic strip writing, promote dance and fitness, and enjoy reading, music, and tennis. I will take the opportunity to serve residents of the 190^th Legislative District as a very serious endeavor, and if elected, I will strive to make residential and business communities better for the school student, home owner and renter, job seeker and retired neighbor, family man and woman, and all our hopeful Philadelphians. This is my exploratory candidacy for Pennsylvania state legislator serving the 190^th District. Thanks for your consideration. 

Official Press Release: Philadelphia Front Page News /Delaware County Front Page News www.fpnnews.us www.delcofrontpagenews.com

Official Press Release: Philadelphia Front Page News /Delaware County Front Page News www.fpnnews.us www.delcofrontpagenews.com 

Power WVSR 1360 In Association with the National Exhoodus Networks, LLC Summer Youth and Young Adult Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents

(Yeadon Mayor, Rohan K. Hepkins Facebook News Page)

Public Communications Department

Van Stone, Director / Malik Aziz, Interim Assistant Director

What we do

Malik Aziz of the National Exhoodus Networks, LLC Summer Youth and Young Adult Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents has been named Interim Assistant Director of Public Communication Department for the radio station Power WVSR 1360.us (West Philadelphia Van Stone Radio) in Pennsylvania. 

Malik Aziz will lead primarily children and parents who are interested in Incarcerated Parents, Parents who have been unjustly permanently separated from their own children due to family court orders, as well as issues pertaining to immigrants, black Indian peoples, Caribbean peoples, and African peoples in Southeastern Pa and the Dominican Republic.

Van Stone, Director of the radio station’s public communications will take the head lead in helping to bridge office of the Mayor, Office of City Council, Office of Congressman, amongst other offices of officials elected by the people to aid in public communications.    

We tell the stories of Philadelphia County, Delaware County and Southeastern Pa. City Concerns, as well as Immigration, Black-American Indian (Black Indian), and City Government, gathering and distributing information to keep folks informed about city policies, programs, services and neighborhoods.

Malik Aziz will participate in matters such as:  If you want to watch your City leaders in action but can’t make it down to City Hall, radio communication (air) City Council meetings on internet radio and TV and stream them on the web.

Exhoodus Retreat or radio station city brochure will be produced with participation of children and young adults involved in programming for a better borough, township, or city.

Malik Aziz will assist Van Stone with planning and collaborating with City leaders, departments, and outside professional organizations and even individuals to make sure that residents, businesses and visitors of the borough, township or city understand what is happening in their own city government and how it affects their lives.

How we do it

Internet and Social Media
We publish news and information on the following websites:  powerwvsr1360.us, frontpagenews.us, fpnnews.us, delcofrontpagenews.com, http://malikaziz.blogspot.com/, and (yeadonmayor rohankhepkins facebook news page).

 

Philadelphia events week of Oct 20 to support stop the abuse and torture of prisoners! Pack the court Nov 10!

Philadelphia events week of Oct 20 to

stop the abuse and torture of prisoners! Pack the court Nov 10!

Six prisoners from SCI Dallas PA prison who face trial on Nov 10 in Wilkes-Barre for blowing the whistle on & protesting against solitary confinement, abuse and violence by prison guards.

 Philadelphia events featuring
← Derrick Stanley, one of the Dallas 6 now out of prison, and Shandre Delaney, coordinator of the Justice for the Dallas 6 Support Campaign & mother of Carrington Keys of the Dallas 6. →

Also featuring Isaac Sanchez, a fellow prisoner who was held in a restraint chair for 16 hours in retaliation for speaking out, which prompted the Dallas 6 to act.  Isaac is now out of prison and will be speaking about his experiences.

Update: One of the Dallas 6  - Derrick Stanley – is out of prison and will be speaking at the press conference at 12:30pm and at the Community Forum at 6pm, along with Isaac Sanchez who was abused in SCI Dallas and Shandre Delaney, mother of one of the Dallas 6.

We also have a location for the press conference at 12:30pm.  It will be held at 1319 Locust St. (AFSCME District 1199c).  The Community Forum at 6pm will be held at Tabernacle United Church, 3700 Chestnut St., in West Philly.

 

Please come out to find out what you can do to support these courageous men at their upcoming trial!

Friday Oct 24
12:30pm - Press Conference – Justice for the Dallas 6 
AFSCME District 1199c board room, 1319 Locust St., Philadelphia 19107

Main Event:
6 - 8pm  Dallas 6 Community Forum  Tabernacle United Church
3700 Chestnut St., West Philly 19104   Donation requested $5, $10, $25  More if you can, less if you can’t.  No one turned away.  Please call ahead if you need childcare.  215-848-1120.

Contact us for info about events below, to schedule a talk, to endorse the campaign and help in other ways:

philly@globalwomenstrike.net  or call

215-848-1120 (Crossroads Women’s Center). 

Campaign website: scidallas6.blogspot.com. As trial and defense costs mount, your help covering honoraria and travel costs is much needed.  Make a Donation!

 Justice for the Dallas 6 Support Campaign: Abolitionist Law Center, Decarcerate PA, Fight for Lifers West, Germantown Friends Meeting Mass Incarceration Working Group, Global Women’s Strike & Women of Color@GWS, Human Rights Coalition, Payday men’s network.  Endorsers: Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Patrice Armstead, Building People’s Power and Coalition Demanding Reinstatement of Dr. Monteiro; Malik Aziz, Founder, Men United for a Better Philadelphia and Chairman, National Exhoodus Council; Brandywine Peace Community; The Center for Returning Citizens (TCRC); Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; Pastor Antoinette Johnson, King Solomon Baptist Church; Dr. Anthony Monteiro; Peacehome Campaigns; Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of African American Studies & History, Temple University; WHAT’S UP?! Pittsburgh; Dr. Carla Willard, Africana Studies Program, Franklin & Marshall College.  Partnering with: AFSC Prison Watch.

Background

 

On April 29, 2010 six courageous prisoners at SCI Dallas staged a peaceful protest against the widespread abuse, violence and torture by guards which they had documented, including the suicide of a mentally ill fellow prisoner after verbal abuse by guards and a prisoner’s confinement to a restraint chair for over 16 hours. When they covered their cell doors and windows in protest, prison authorities responded by viciously beating them in so-called “cell extractions” (see video) and later charging them with “rioting” after they had filed official complaints.  After four years of delays, the trial begins on Nov 10^th at the Luzerne County Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre PA – globally infamous for the Kids for Cash scandal, in which two judges were convicted of taking kickbacks for incarcerating young people. The Dallas 6 and their family members are part of a movement of prisoners across the country, including the historic 2013 California Prisoner Hunger Strike, putting their lives on the line to bring the public’s attention to solitary confinement and other torture and abuse. 

 

We all depend on prisoners like the Dallas 6 to blow the whistle on and take action against the inhumane and tortuous conditions of the US prison system, the largest in the world, with Black and Brown communities disproportionately impacted. Prisoners across the US are taking action, including prisoner hunger and work strikes in Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia and California. As a result of their actions, prisoners are retaliated against by prison authorities.  The trial of the Dallas 6 will represent a moment of truth and exposure about wide-spread use of solitary confinement and torture in prisons.   We call on all who believe in justice and equality to support the Dallas 6.   

 

Pack the court on Nov. 10th!          

As trial and defense costs mount, your help covering honoraria and travel costs is much needed.

Hear Mumia Abu Jamal's Dallas 6 commentary (then known as Dallas 5) & Shandre’s Thursdays 9:30pm blogtalkradio Watch video of Shandre speaking at the Left Forum!

 Sat Oct 25
2 - 4pm participating in Human Rights Coalition event “What Have You Done for Us Lately – PA Politicians and Mass Incarceration” at Berean Institute 1901 W. Girard

The National Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents, directed by Malik Aziz, builds a new website as a new Model for Youth Development in Southeastern Pennsylvania areas

The National Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents, directed by Malik Aziz, builds a new website as a new Model for Youth Development in Southeastern Pennsylvania areas 

Malik Aziz, the local and often time’s national leader in the fight for more awareness about troubled children and young adults coping with today’s urban crisis, has a website at http://malikaziz.blogspot.com/ called United Windows with Malik Aziz and Antoinette Jackson-Aziz. The site was created for Malik and his wife Antoinette in 2010.  Today, in 2014, Aziz is involved with re-launching the United Windows website to share the site with a program for children and young adults of incarcerated parents.  

Launched in June 2000, National Exhoodus Networks, LLC Summer Youth and Young Adult Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents is a long-term student management intervention model for disconnected youth whose obstacles such as lack of parental leadership, education, homelessness, trauma, substance abuse, and court involvement prevent them from accessing resources and achieving educational, employment, and healthy living goals.

Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents work on a one-on-one basis with each youth to remove barriers, proactively encourage participation in a broad set of Exhoodus Networks, LLC services, and connect them to other needed resources through participation in a broad set of Exhoodus Networks, LLC  services, and connect them to other needed resources within the community so they may make a successful transition to adulthood and reconnect to their family support and communities.

A New Model for Youth Development in Southeastern Pennsylvania areas such as Philadelphia County and Delaware County.

The National Exhoodus Council from 2000 to 2010 successfully operated Exhoodus Networks, LLC summer youth and young adult Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents.   This retreat was held every summer, during the years of operation, at the end of August, at the Hillside Inn Resort, in Marshall Creek, Monroe County, East Stroudsburg, Pa Pocono Mts area. Enrollment for the Retreat did not exceed 100 youth as these children and young adults were primarily from the inner city of Philadelphia, Pa.  The Exhoodus Council, picked up operation of the Retreat in 2007, prior to that it was a partnership with Men United for a Better Philadelphia, Mayor's Office of Community Services and The Philadelphia District Attorney' Office,  and the City Wide Youth Agency.     The Director of the Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents is Malik Aziz, founder and co-chair, MUBP.  The retreat ceased operations in 2010 due to the closure of the Hillside Inn Resort. However, in 2014 the retreat operations has been re-launched promoting getting youth off of the mean streets back into the homes using the best means of internet services a business has to offer to maintain safety and success involving the summer retreat.    EXHOODUS RETREAT Believes: A strong relationship with caring adult support is critical to a youth's ability to achieve successful outcomes Combining individualized student management with mentoring and high-quality services leads to transformational outcomes for children and young adults Student management will give disconnected children and youth an opportunity to develop a relationship with an Exhoodus Retreat personal care person committed to the "relentless pursuit" of his/her success

The Exhoodus Retreat Goes Beyond Traditional Student Management Models Personal Care Persons are Exhoodus Retreat support individuals that act as mentors, case managers, community health workers, and advocates for high risk youth and children and young adults whose parents face incarceration.  These highly trained and experienced support individuals work intentionally and deliberately to build relationships designed to transform a young person’s life.  Working across programs to address all the youth’s needs, Exhoodus Retreat leaders work with youth over an extended period of time.   They continue to work with youth even after they complete programs and services, ensuring a lasting impact by constantly moving towards academic success, long-term employment, and live healthy living skills. Exhoodus Retreat Evaluation Design and Results. As with all Exhoodus Retreat programs, the Exhoodus Retreat uses a web-based data management system that allows for sophisticated demographic output, and outcomes reporting. Exhoodus Retreat stratergems help to track youths' progress along many dimensions including whether goals are being met, frequency of service provision, and completion of referrals.  Contact Information For more information about the Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents, please contact Malik Aziz Exhoodus RetreatDirector at (267) 581-1252.

Autobiography Van Stone : Courtfighter

Autobiography Van Stone : Courtfighter

Condensed Autobiography Van Stone - Born Courtfighter: Journey Through Unknown Courts

Meet Newspaperman and Courtfighter Van Stone


Above: Image Supporting Van Stone's
Kinship.

Dear Readers,

I have been asked many, many times about how I came to be a newspaperman and courtfighter involved with the Philadelphia Front Page News, and forced to deal with the Media Delaware County Courthouse and the Philadelphia County Court. The first answer is that when I was a kid I love to read Bibles, the dictionary, and the Visual Encyclopedia of Science. Then I would write down what I read the best I could. Today, I still read these volumes. And I also love to read firefighter magazines. My first and second grade teacher, Mr. Herb Rogers, Jr., took us on a few field trips to the Philadelphia courts. Another reason is that my father could not read past second grade level literature, so I learned about writing early in my life. And I taught my dad how to read and write better when I was only a sixth grade school student.

I have written many books, articles, and opinion journals about the community, Bibles, legal matters, and Dragons. I like investigating, writing about famous people. I've written on many diverse subjects such as the Unknown Soldier, World History, Science, Myths, and Zombies. And I like to write about Historical Subjects: World Events, Cookery, Homes, Crafts, and Farming; Abraham and Sarah, Scrolls, Cleopatra, King Herod, Black Indians, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Frederick Douglas, Joseph Smith, Jr., Frederick Douglas, John Henry, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Adolf Hitler, NAACP, Jim Jones, Philadelphia, PA, and Harrisburg, PA. I like to write about Jimmy Carter and Ertha Kitt too. Some of my other opinion journals have been about Liza Minnelli, Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, Jr., Judge Judith Sheindlin, Judge Greg Mathis, Jim Brown, LeBron James, and Michelle Obama. Also, I like to investigate stories about ordinary heroes like foster parents, firemen, (such as Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers), policemen, (such as Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Office Support, Sergent Jeff Cambell), clergy, superheroes, monsters, and gargoyles. Also, I like to write historical news about greenhouses, teepees, the sari, the saxophone, the gavel, silhouettes, smoke and fire, the yoke, pillory, cats, and sables.

I hope you liked reading about my exciting Black American Indian, Independent Journey through Media Delaware County Courthouse and Philadelphia County Court Building.

Your soldier friend,



Van Stone