Lansing Empowerment Network

05/20/2026

📚✨ Lansing Empowerment Network – Cradle to Career📚

At LEN, our Cradle to Career Education Collaborative is about walking with our kids and families every step of the way — from early childhood, through school, and into meaningful careers right here in Lansing. This is about alignment, accountability, and making sure no child falls through the cracks.

👉 We’re collaborating TOMORROW at 6:00 pm at Reo to continue building this work, and we want community voices at the table — parents, educators, nonprofit leaders, mentors, advocates, and anyone who cares about Lansing’s future.

If you’ve ever asked:
• How do we better support our kids?
• How do we connect education to real opportunity?
• How do we work together instead of in silos?
This meeting is for you.

If you can, please bring a device to the meeting so that we can crowd-source school and community partners that we want to have at the table. Don't worry if you don't have or can’t bring a device; we can share!

📅 Wednesday 5/20/26
⏰ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
📍 Reo Elementary (1221 Reo Rd. Rm. 108)
💻 Zoom Option Available: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83002374836

05/13/2026

The Lansing Empowerment Network (LEN) invites the community to join us for our next Community Meeting on Saturday, May 16th from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

This meeting will give residents an opportunity to hear directly from LPD Chief Backus regarding the collection, tracking, and reporting of gun violence data in Lansing, along with broader crime trends impacting our community.

Chief Backus will also be available to answer questions directly from community members in an open discussion format about any other topic.

As conversations around public safety continue, we believe transparency, communication, and community engagement are critical. This is an opportunity for residents to ask questions, gain clarity on the data, and be part of the discussion around violence prevention and public safety in Lansing.

📍 REO Elementary School
1221 Reo Rd. Lansing, MI 48910

🗓 Saturday, May 16
⏰ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

All community members are welcome.

05/08/2026

The numbers matter. The collaboration matters. The work matters.

Since the launch of Lansing 360 and the broader efforts of the Lansing Empowerment Network in 2023, Lansing has seen significant reductions in gun violence according to Lansing Police Department data:

• Confirmed shooting incidents down nearly 45%
• Shots fired calls down over 29%
• Non-fatal shootings down nearly 30%
• Fatal shootings down 30%

This progress did not happen because of one person or one organization. It happened because community members, intervention workers, residents, law enforcement, schools, hospitals, nonprofits, faith leaders, businesses, and local partners have continued showing up week after week to do the hard work together.

Through initiatives like:
• Lansing 360
• CI-CPR (Critical Incident Community Planned Response)
• Step Up Lansing
• Economic Development Advisory Table
• Cradle 2 Career conversations
• Youth and neighborhood engagement efforts

…we are working not only on intervention, but also on prevention and long-term upstream solutions involving housing, education, economic opportunity, mentorship, and built environment improvements.

There is still work to do. Every shooting is one too many. But the data shows that coordinated community action can make a real difference.

The work continues.

05/06/2026

Quick Lansing 360 Update 🌐

This week’s Lansing 360 meeting will be held fully online for this week only. We will resume our normal in-person meeting schedule on Wednesday, May 13.

Here is the weekly Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89861932384.

Our Housing Meeting this Thursday will still take place in person from 6-8pm (first Thursday of each month).

We look forward to connecting with you all this week! 💙

04/30/2026

Go check us out on empoweromaha.com as we help celebrate their 20th year of Empowerment! Our CEO will be a speaker at the 20th annual rebuilding the village conference!

We choose to build together!

04/29/2026

The Lansing 360 Gun Violence Prevention Collaborative weekly meeting is today at noon!

Join us in person or online every Wednesday from 12-1pm at Reo Elementary, 1221 Reo Rd, Lansing, MI.

04/28/2026

All are welcome to join our next CI-CPR meeting! is next Monday 12-2pm at Reo Elementary:
1221 Reo rd Lansing MI 48910

The Critical Incident Community Planned Response plan is a streamlined path to immediate resources for families impacted by gun violence.

04/26/2026

There’s been a lot of talk this week saying “nothing is being done” about gun violence in our community.

That’s not true.

There are people showing up every single week doing real work—coordinating, responding, and building solutions. And this week is no different.

If you care about what’s happening, don’t just watch from the outside—come be part of it.

Here’s what’s happening this week:

Monday (12–2 PM) – CI-CPR Meeting
Our Critical Incident Community Planned Response (CI-CPR) is a community-led response model activated after shootings. This is where we organize how we support impacted families, stabilize neighborhoods, and coordinate real-time response—not weeks later, but immediately.

Tuesday (4–5:30 PM) – Economic Development Advisory Table
We’re tackling gun violence from the root. This meeting focuses on how economic opportunity, development, and the built environment (housing, spaces, investment) play a direct role in preventing violence before it starts.

Wednesday (12-1pm)– Lansing 360 Weekly Gun violence prevention collaborative Meeting.
This is our standing gun violence coordination meeting. We review what’s happening in real time, share updates on incidents, and most importantly, plug people into action. If you’ve ever asked “what can I do?”—this is where you start.

We don’t need more commentary, we need more people at the table.

If you’re frustrated, concerned, or just want to understand what’s really happening, pull up this week.

All meetings are held at:

Reo Elementary 1221 Reo rd Lansing,MI 48910

Real work is being done.
The question is—will you be part of it?

04/25/2026

To all those impacted by the most recent senseless incident of gun violence, and all the people working to pick up the pieces, we see you. Keep grinding , this too shall pass.