PAL Fact Sheet

PAL Coalition

Our Vision: “To create a healthier and safer community with strong families that have the necessary opportunities, relationships, networks and supports to raise their children successfully.”

Stabilize, Strengthen, Sustain

Who are we?

The PAL Coalition of the 7th Street Corridor (PAL stands for the three neighborhoods, Park Hill, Algonquin and Old Louisville), encompasses four census tracts and includes partial zip codes 40215, 40208, 40210.

Special thanks to our Key Leader Board Members and others:

• The Center for Health Equity
• C.H.O.I.C.E.
• First Gethsemane Baptist Church
• West Louisville Crime Vision
• Youth Build
• KET
• Metro United Way
• Louisville Metro Housing Authority (LMHA)
• Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD)
• Iroquois High School
• Manual High School youth

The PAL Youth Council

• Powerful Arriving Leaders
• Key Leaders Board
• This council consists of students who live, work, or play in the PAL community
• Council meetings held at Iroquois High School

Our Mission: “To reduce the incidence of substance abuse by young people residing in the 7^th Street Corridor of Central Louisville through a collaborative coalition that coordinates resources through public policy, laws, revenue and strategy development.”

Check out our blog on the Center For Neighborhoods website! Or find us on Facebook!

The PAL Coalition &

Center For Neighborhoods

610 South 4^th Street, Suite #701

Louisville, KY 40202

Tel. (502)589-0343  Fax (502)589-0616

www.centerforneighborhoods.org

Or contact Tomy Baker, Coalition Coordinator

tomyb@centerforneighborhoods.org

Did you know that 3,203 PAL kids (89%) were not arrested for drug related charges? (LMPD data)