Black Lives Matter NewHaven

04/30/2026

04/30/2026

04/22/2026

The Emergency is Tonight.
On April 22, 2026, at 7AM we will gather in community, urgency, and care as the warming shelters close for the year—while the need for safety and dignity still remains.
Join U-ACT:
📍 242 Dixwell Ave (by Varick Church)
🕖 7:00 AM – Breakfast + Meet Up (as the warming center closes)
🚶🏾‍♀️ 8:00 AM – Solidarity Walk to City Hall
📣 9:00 AM – Rally
🫂 Followed by Supply Drive + Mutual Aid Stations
We need your support.
Houseless is a spectrum. Most of us are closer to homelessness than you think.
Your houseless neighbors deserve safety, and dignity.
Connecticut + New Haven MUST decriminalize houselessness and work with us to create solutions. They can start with eliminating sweeps on camps, and stop taking our belongings!
Come through. Pick Up supplies. Bring supplies. Bring your voice. Bring your people.

04/10/2026

Elm City COMPASS (Compassionate Allies Serving our Streets) is a community-based initiative to create a system of sustainable supports for individuals in New Haven experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis.
A Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Response
Elm City COMPASS maintains a crisis response team, collaborates to enhance the crisis response service system, supports a Community Advisory Board, and includes a comprehensive evaluation.

Born From Black Lives Matter
Elicker first proposed COMPASS as a police diversion program in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality and racism. The program launched in 2022 based out of Continuum of Care, with administrative support from Yale University.

Sun Queen, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter New Haven and an organizer with the Unhoused Activists Community Team (U-ACT), sits on COMPASS’ Community Advisory Board.

She said she hopes to see the program evolve to work more independently from the police department. Right now, there’s no number that can directly reach COMPASS. “You have to go through 911 for triage.”

Still, Queen said, the program is an important step toward de-escalating encounters with people who are experiencing a mental health crisis. She pointed to Everard Walker and Steven Jones, two Black men whom Hartford police officers recently shot dead while they were brandishing knives; the families of both men had requested mental health support prior to the shootings. “It shouldn’t end in death,” Queen said. “It shouldn’t end in arrest.”

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/04/10/budget-spotlight-as-non-cop-crew-cruises-streets-city-looks-for-compass-funds/?fbclid=IwdGRjcARGQwhjbGNrBEZC42V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHjBLkI4CUnls_jVT_8pVhSqUdWnmydKuGs0GcKQqhO9Dn-4lw9WXn84Ar_47_aem_sL9JeyYccZZoCP_IcqLoJg

More than three years after tapping federal dollars to launch a crisis-response team focused on helping adults struggling with mental health, substance use, and homelessness, the Elicker administration is still looking for funds to keep that program going.

04/08/2026

🚨 CALL TO ACTION: APRIL 22, 2026 🚨
Stand. Walk. Witness. Resist.

📢 Bring your voice. Bring supplies. Bring your people.

🫂Solidarity with our unhoused neighbors

04/08/2026

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/04/08/early-ed-center-previewed-on-dixwell/?fbclid=IwdGRzaARDRNxjbGNrBENExmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHk2csB2j2ODPci6HeExmmLoEkBDnC2_VVt3Tw04NDS_zpij16LbVkGpaBOC5_aem_w6Ukjt5gsFeA-lbf8hh3Iw

📰 First Haven in Dixwell is being built with the unique intention to revive culture, restore community, and sustain generations to come,” said Friends Center Chief Operating Officer Miriam Sutton. In addition to the child care center, the 65,000-square-foot space will offer mental health counseling services from Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center and vocational training in fields like phlebotomy, construction, and culinary arts provided by ConnCAT.

As part of Friends Center, ConnCORP partnership at the new First Haven in Dixwell site.

04/03/2026

PLEASE SHARE: On Saturday, April 11th, from 10:00am - 12:00pm, School Break Groceries is back for Spring Break. With 4 locations across New Haven, this pop-up food pantry will bridge the gap in schools meals while students are out of schools. Groceries are available on a first come, first serve basis.

POR FAVOR, COMPARTA: El sábado 11 de abril, de 10:00 a. m. a 12:00 p. m., regresa el programa "School Break Groceries" con motivo de las vacaciones de primavera. Con 4 ubicaciones en New Haven, estas despensas ayudarán a proporcionar alimentos mientras los estudiantes están fuera de la escuela. Los alimentos están disponibles por orden de llegada.

03/04/2026

Please RSVP, share or forward to anyone you think might be interested.

Join Part 1 + 2 of the Black Folks Guide to Decolonization, a 5-part virtual Liberation U series designed specifically for Black folks who are ready to deepen their practice beyond theory.

Part 1 + 2: Rediscovery & Recovery – Building the Foundations
🗓 April 10 + April 17
⏰ 7:00–8:30 PM (virtual)

Together we will:

• Explore the benefits of Black folks integrating decolonization into our lives and work.
• Examine the ways Black folx are socialized into internalized racial oppression.
• Name how colonialism continues to shape modern political, economic, cultural, social, and knowledge systems.
• Identify how to avoid the dangers of form over substance when integrating decolonial practices into your life.

This is a participatory space for reflection, dialogue, and grounded application.

Investment:
$30 per session or $50 for both if paid at once.

You can sign up using this link or QR code on the attached flyer.

If you’ve been wanting a space that centers Black experiences while moving us toward clarity, integrity, and practice this is that space.

Hope to see you there.

01/20/2026

Community, Tomorrow Pull up‼️

Art is the entry point
Community is the destination

📍 Yale African American Cultural Center
📅 Opening: January 20, 2026 | 5:30–7PM
📅 On view through January 30, 2026
🎟️ Free + open to the