Urban Jacksonville Weekly Episode #33

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Topics

Special Guest: Jim Adams, CEO of Family Support Services talks to us about foster care in Jacksonville. One of the best shows in a while.

Foster Care
Kevin Gay – Operation New Hope
working with gateway, Hubbard House, FCCJ at prevention house

Foster Care Redesign
www.fostercareredesign.org
looking at the family as a whole picture
70 different components

foster kids have highest drop out, pregnancy, criminal justice rates
576 kids in Florida adopted out of foster care system
no children under 5 in foster care system right now

Heart Gallery
www.heartgalleryjax.org
traveling portrait exhibit now at the Landing

How to Get Involved
Project Backpack – Junior League
next 3 Saturdays at RAM (10am-4pm) – drop off backpacks (like $3 @ Target) or gift cards for older kids
Adrian Pickett doing live portraits of kids that will be given to family that adopts child

Mentoring
UNF
17-18 year olds

also accepting bikes, skateboards

ActionNews – noon show features a Heart Gallery child
Chicago award for news org. doing the most for the community

Recommendations

Jack – CW/EU TV show Saturdays @ 10pm, Sundays @ 6:30
Jonathan – some show at some time
Joey – AIGA Always Summer Poster Show Saturday
Tony – Project Backpack at RAM + Toyota Farm to Table Tour
Jim – Burrito Gallery (via his son)

Music
Wednesday September 23
Landshark Cafe
Chicken & Whiskey (Duval)
Slumpbuster (Jax Beach)

Thursday September 24
Jack Rabbits
The Queers (P-mouth, NH)
The Leftovers (Portland, ME)

Friday September 25
Jack Rabbits
Juliette Lewis (Hollywood)
The Ettes (Nashville, TN)

Edge 17
After the Bomb, Baby! (Duval)

TSI
Honey Chamber (Duval)
Shawn Lightfoot (Duval)
Karma Explosion

Saturday September 26
Cafe Eleven
Richard Buckner

Doozer’s Pub
Status Faux (Duval)
Anchor Arms (G-ville)
FFN (Palatka)

Shantytown
The Matt Kurz One (Athens, GA)
Corporate Whores (Neptune Beach)
The Snacks (Greenville, SC)

Sunday September 27
Nobby’s
Low Red Land (San Fran)
Chicken & Whiskey (Duval)

Jack Rabbits
Islands (Montreal)
RickoLus (Jax Beach)
Tuffy (Duval)

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