Recent ICARE Posts

• ICARE March 2024

  20 Feb 2024

  ICARE gets city to study climate change

  There’s no point in building if those buildings are going to be under water ~ Mayor Donna Deegan 

  By 2070, three times as many people in Jacksonville will be exposed to flooding as today. That’s the bad news. The good ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE February 2024

  29 Jan 2024

   

   

   

   

   

   

  ICARE Research Issue Update: Mental Health 

  Jax Mayor’s Office Learns About Treatment, Not Jail for People in Crisis

  Most states spend more money to incarcerate people with mental illnesses than to treat them. ~ Judge Steve Leifman, founder, Miami-Dade County Criminal Mental Health Project

  They ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE December 2023

  26 Nov 2023

  Bending Toward Justice

  BBUUC ICARE Team

  at Violence Intervention Press Conference

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Fifty-one ICARE network members—including six from BBUUC—made the case to news outlets that JSO’s Group Violence Intervention Program needs to be reassessed. This, after Sheriff T.K. Waters failed to ... read more. Read more →

• 2023 ICARE’s Community Problems Assembly

  25 Sep 2023

   

  Build Stronger Communities Through Better Policy at 

  ICARE’s Community Problems Assembly

   

   

  Join us and become part of this year’s plan to deal with flooding, gang violence, over-policing, and mental health crises

  When: 7 p.m. Monday, October 30

  Where: Christ the King Catholic Church; 742 Arlington Rd N

  At ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE September 2023

  20 Aug 2023

    We’re Looking for 

  Your Stories

  Join an ICARE House Meeting*

  And Put Your Faith into Action!

  Share insights on community problems

  Flooding ~ Mental health ~ Neighborhood violence ~ Police fees, fines, traffic stops ~ and more

  Enjoy food, fellowship, and social justice:

  Sunday, Sept. 10, noon, Olympia Brown Room at ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE August 2023

  22 Jul 2023

  ICARE Gains at Sheriff’s Town Hall

  ICARE showed up in force and scored wins at Sheriff T.K. Waters’s town hall last month. Thirty-four members came and ICARE ranked high in news coverage. Here’s how our agenda fared:

  Gang (Group) Violence Intervention – ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE June 2023

  27 May 2023

  If you believe in social justice for Jacksonville

  Thank a BBUUC member who showed up!

  Because of you, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters agreed to:

  Tour Miami’s model program for handling mental health calls Coordinate 911 operators with the new 988 mental health hotlineKritinia  Altes Viqui Hilliard Judy Olevnik Madeline SimsMary Avery Missy  ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE May 2023

  26 Apr 2023

  Moral arc bends small

  Thin support from sheriff at ICARE 2023 Nehemiah Action

  It was a night of tough love at Abyssinia Baptist Church. A Jacksonville interfaith assembly of 650 church members – including 49 from BBUUC– gathered to ask Sheriff T.K. Waters to focus more on ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE March 2023

  23 Feb 2023

  ICARE Justice Moment:

  Don’t arrest someone over a mental breakdown

  Police officers are typically the first responders to incidents involving people with mental illness, and too often it doesn’t end well. JSO has told us the only two possible responses are: to arrest the person or to ... read more. Read more →

• ICARE January 2023

  22 Dec 2022

  ICARE Update:

  City on Track with Flood Assessment 

  Last year ICARE joined a cadre of city council members and local experts, calling for Jacksonville to take meaningful steps to better understand flooding and how it impacts the people who live here. 

  Now, the city has completed the first ... read more. Read more →