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Keeping Them Alive and city partners outline summer nonviolence calendar, school poster project
Summary
Community group Keeping Them Alive and Albuquerque Community Safety presented a calendar of summer nonviolence events, school poster displays about overdose victims, and plans to use events to connect families to services.
Tyson Patterson of Keeping Them Alive and Albuquerque Community Safety’s Jeffrey Bustamante briefed the Local Government Coordinating Council on a summer nonviolence calendar of events and a school poster project that displays family tributes to people who died from overdose.
Patterson said the group has partnered with Crossroads counselors and APS to place a mobile memorial museum and posters with QR codes in high schools; school staff have used the displays for class projects and follow-up discussion. He described positive reactions at El Dorado, Cibola and Sandia high schools and said the displays have led families to join Keeping Them Alive and to create new posters.
Patterson also described community and sporting events where the group sets up displays and hands out information. He said the organization has volunteers to staff events and is building a summer calendar that already includes multiple sponsored dates; the calendar remains open for additional events.
Jeffrey Bustamante of Albuquerque Community Safety said the agency will support summer programming and outreach, provide meals and on-site follow-up for families who request services, and work with partners to increase capacity at events. He cited successful high-attendance events last year, including a drive‑in movie that drew roughly 1,000 people, and said the strategy is “bigger, better, more nonviolence” this year.
Vice Chair Jackson and other council members asked whether APS could assist with information-sharing or event promotion; Bustamante said ACS would follow up to coordinate with school staff. Patterson described an informal evaluation: teachers converted the displays into class materials and students scanned QR codes and engaged in emotional conversations with family members who attended the events.
Council members noted high attendance at prior events, the need to stock additional naloxone supplies (Patterson said supplies ran short), and the value of school-based prevention. There was no formal action recorded.
