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LGBTQ+ Commission Public Health & Safety Working Group Meeting

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Neighborhoods

  • Baldwin
  • Cambridge Highlands
  • Cambridgeport
  • City Wide
  • East Cambridge
  • Area 2/MIT
  • Mid-Cambridge
  • Neighborhood Nine
  • North Cambridge
  • Riverside
  • Strawberry Hill
  • The Port
  • Wellington-Harrington
  • West Cambridge

Description

Agenda (to be updated 48 hours or more before meeting)

Meeting Chair: D.x. Vincent Daveed Monrreal


Call to order

Welcome

Assign minute taker

Review and Approve Previous Minutes

Recap of previous Working Group proceedings

Updates on Previous Action Items

Old Business

New Business

Review Public Health and Safety Working Group Mission, Purpose, Goals, Tasks, Areas of Interest, and Objectives.

Plan April Public Health and Safety Events and Activities :

April National Month-(Autism Acceptance Month, Arab American Heritage Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Stress Awareness Month, National Volunteer Month, Earth Day, Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month, National Alcohol Awareness Month, National Occupational Therapy Month, National Fair Housing Month, National Financial Literacy Month,National Child Abuse Prevention Month, National Cannabis Awareness Month, National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, National Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month)

Coordinate a collaboration event with Commissioner Christine Elow with the Cambridge Police Department and Public Health and Safety Working groups on Cambridge community safety resources

Coordinate a collaboration event with Cambridge Health Alliance with Registered Nurse Audrey and Public Health and Safety Working Group for Sexual Health/Pharmacy Care and LGBTQ+ Health.

Coordinate a collaboration event with National Alliance on Mental Illness with Emmelie Langan and Public Health and Safety Working Group for

Stress Awareness Month.

Coordinate a collaboration event with Cambridge Health Alliance LGBTQ Affinity Group with Aimee Ricciardone and Public Health and Safety Working Group for

National Alcohol Awareness Month.

Coordinate a collaboration event with Metro Navigator Tacara Howard and Sexual Assault Response team or SAR Team at the Disabled Persons Protection Commission and Public Health and Safety Working groups on Sexual Assault Awareness Month.


Next Meeting Date and Time: Apr 16, 2026 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Adjournment











Appendix A

Public Health and Safety Working Group



Our Mission: Engage the Cambridge community with creating opportunities to participate in LGBTQ+ focused training with local safety organizations.



Our Purpose: Provide a visible presence in Cambridge neighborhoods to show the efforts in the commitment to LGBTQ+ focused public health information and safety accessibility.



Our Goals: Build a networking support of more LGBTQ+ resources within the Cambridge Safety organizations and partner for community events .



Our Specific tasks: Assist in LGBTQ+ focused training with Cambridge Safety organizations.



Our Areas of interest:



-Cambridge Event Security Programs

-Cambridge Law Protection

-University Security

-University Health

-Population Health



Our Defined objectives: Identify the benefits of collaborative events with Cambridge Safety organizations and LGBTQ+ focused training.

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