1. What is your home zip code? 11226

2. Does your community have a name? If so, what is it? Flatbush.

3. What is the number of your community board? Briefly state its purpose. The number of this community board is 14. Cb 14 purpose is to deal with complaints and requests by community. They work with agencies to plan projects and acts as community liaison with city agencies.

4. Who is the president of your community board?

Eric Adams is the president

5. Who is the district manager of the community board? The district manager is Shawn Alyse Campbell.

6. Who is your current New York City Council Member, what communities does s/he serve, what council committees does s/he serve on?

Jumaan D Williams is the council committee, he serves Flatbush,East Flatbush, Flatlands, parts of Midwood and Canarsie. He represents 45^th council District in Brooklyn and serves as Deputy leader of NYC council and chair of the committee on housing and buildings.

7. Who is your New York State Assembly Member?

James Tedisco Assembly District 112

http://www.assembly.ny.gov/mem/?ad=112&sh=postings

8. Who is your New York State Senator?

Chuck Schumer; Kirsten Gillibrand

http://www.schumer.senate.gov/ ; http://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/

9. Who are your U.S. Senators?

Gillibrand, Kristen E ; Schumer, Charles E

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?State=NY

1. Who is your U.S. congressional Representative?

Yvette D Clarke Democrat

http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep?ZIP=11226&Submit=FIND+YOUR+REP+BY+ZIP

1. What are the basic demographics of your community (total population, gender, age levels, race/ethnicity, income levels, household sizes, educational levels)

The total amount of population from 2007/09 is about 164,693. The male gender is about 42.7% while the females are 52.5%. 6.9% are Asians, 34.5% are Black, 15.1% are Latino, 41.5% are white and 2.0% are other. The graduation level from 2010-11 is 80.5% compared to the dropout rate being 4.1% and 2.7% students are college ready. 31.3% people that are 25 and older attained a bachelor’s degree or higher while 18.3 have less than a high school degree.

2. What is the health status of your community? 21.3% of people’s health are either fair or good, 33.9% are good, 25.9% are very good and 18.2% are very good.

3. What are the crime statistic for your community? As of 2010 the violent crime rate is 4.8%, the property crime rate is 7.2%, the felony crime is 12.0 and stop and frisk is 62.5%.

4. Briefly describe the education/cultural resources of your community?

There are only a few parks in this community given that 70% of housing units are within a mile of a park. There are small amounts of playgrounds in neighborhoods and then there’s prospect park south that is a one of the few Historic Districts in the City. As for libraries there are many branches that are used and valued such as

The Caribbean Literacy and Cultural Center at the Flatbush Branch, and the Cortelyou Road library and many more. They offer many programs for the community such as GED pep and are open seven days a week.

5. Briefly describe recreational resources of your community? There are barely any recreational resources being that there are only 11, but the park area are used as space for activities for basketball and football.

6. Briefly describe the religious/spiritual institutions of your community.

There are several churches in the community ranging from Baptists/ Christian and even Catholic.

7. Briefly describe the financial and business institutions in your community. As of 2013, there are over 480 commercial and offices along with 1,065 commercial mix residential lots around the community. There are generous amount of neighborhoods in this community that have blocks loaded with plenty of business lots such as banks, food pantries, tax shops etc.

8. Briefly describe the infrastructure of your community.

Some of the neighborhood have roads that are not paved right while some other neighborhoods are just fine. There have been complaints about the noise and also smell of the air.

9. Based on your research and walkabouts, identify 3 of your community’s strengths or assets:

1) The strengths of this community is the fact that there’s limited businesses and easy access to stores around

2) There are a generous amount of transportation available.

3) It’s versatile when it comes to race.

1. Based on your research and walkabouts, identify and prioritize 3 issues of concern to you about your community:

1) The little amount of recreational resources.

2) the large amount of stop & frisk

3)crime rate

1. Human services ethical standards speak about our profession’s concern for individuals, families, communities and society. Why should human services professionals care about communities and society?

Human services professionals should care about the community because if they want to go about helping people, the communities is the way to start. They have to help change the environment because it has major effect on people.