REMARKS
Recognition of awareness days and months
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Speaker Adrienne E. Adams acknowledges various awareness days and months, highlighting their importance to the community. She mentions National Opioid Awareness Day, World Alzheimer's Day, and several heritage months coming up in October.
- Emphasizes the public health aspects of opioid awareness and Alzheimer's disease
- Recognizes the diversity of New York City through various heritage months
- Highlights the importance of domestic violence awareness and support for survivors
Adrienne E. Adams
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Last Saturday was the National Opioid Awareness Day, can keep each other in our community safe by approaching substance abuse as an urgent matter of public health and safety, concentrating on public health solutions to this deadly crisis.
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We must recognize the racial disparities and the addiction and overdose crisis and focus on more prevention, harm reduction, and treatment services in the most impacted communities.
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Last Saturday was also World Alzheimer's Day, a day to increase public awareness about Alzheimer's disease, which is a growing public health crisis.
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So many have personal connections to this to this disease, including our own council member and agent committee chair, Crystal Hudson, who cared for her mother as she lived with Alzheimer's.
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We thank Council member Hudson for advocacy for New Yorkers living with Alzheimer's and their families.
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As we approach the month of October, we want to recognize national domestic violence awareness month at a time when we uplift survivors of domestic violence.
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Here in New York City, thousands of domestic violence cases are reported each year.
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Yet we know there is an undercount due to the trauma and stigma associated with domestic violence, resulting in survivors living in fear and silence.
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We must all work together to end gender based violence and advance solutions that keep survivors safe and help them recover.
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October marks the start of Italian American heritage and culture month.
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German American Heritage Month, Filipino American Heritage Month, and Polish American Heritage Month.
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I also wanna recognize October as AIDS Awareness Month.
