A Message From MASK

Tazer friend Charlene Harris sent something that everyone should take a moment to read over in regard to the great work that the MASK organizaton does:

M.A.S.K. has established a service delivery plan for all families seeking it's assistance. We provide referrals, advocacy and support. We promote the healing of all victims of crimes and provide one on one emotional support as well as peer-to peer support. We are in motion to start our support groups at a new location.

M.A.S.K. has outreached to over (100) families primarily here in our city. We also provide services to others in surrounding Bay Area Cities as well as other towns and cities throughout the State. We will continue doing our parts promoting the healing and helping families find their way to their own healing zones! They start this by having a "Willing Spirit" for change and want to become heal. Sixty families have developed willing spirits. They don't want any retaliation only justice for the murders of their love ones.

Violence is a public health community problem, where everyone will have to join in to help decease it. The local governments has to their parts to help by reconstructing the poverty levels, lack of unemployment, affordable housing here in our cities.

The ATF, FBI, Secret Intelligence has to do their jobs of enforcing the drug and weapons flows into our communities. Remember the grassroots populations didn't dump the drugs and weapons here back in the Eighties. Everyone got tricked they didn't have a clue it would cause all this past and current devastation and destruction.

Schools are stepping up to the plate and hopefully will combat the problems of habitual truants. Hopefully the health departments will offer youth, young men and women drug rehab centers for youth right in their own neighborhoods whether they be on medical or not hopefully they will offer grief/trauma counseling to traumatize young people without a price tag attached.


Families should be encouraged to do their parts by supporting the service plan of M.A.S.K. Theme "No More Retaliations" after the death of a love one or friend. Churches should have a plan for Victim of Crimes and Ministers and Pastors should speak to the families about not committing acts of vengeance, also they should have the Eulogies preached on "No More Retaliations" Aftercare and support should be administered by extended family members especially the youth, young men and women.

Grandparents who have always been the gatekeepers would be valuable assets of delivering these messages. If we want to decrease the number of homicides in our communities this is where it starts. Inside the victims homes. Only then can we start reversing the cycle! So don't blame the Mayor, City Council members or anyone else! I'm just keeping it real! We feel the new Chief Magus has a good plan to help combat crime. Mayor Anderson at the M.A.S.K. "NO MORE RETALIATIONS" event acknowledged all Survivors and we feel it's not all on her it's the whole community as well. We must somehow find ways to move on developing a concenus to promote peace and healing in our communities. Everyone has a part to do. M.A.S.K. is doing its part, and doing it well. We are waiting on everyone else to start doing there parts.


A lot of the homicides are retaliatory or victim/witness related. Of course you have the blatant senseless ones as well. The former mentioned above takes precedence over all others. Many are most likely committed by minors under the influence of the drugs like (E) Ecstasy combined with alcohol and who knows what else.


Adults will have to stop contributing to the delinquency of minors and stop supplying them with a place to live or be while they should be in school or at home. Parents and guardian should be held accountable. Adults should stop doing drug with minors, and should stop letting minors them do drugs in their homes, they should stop supplying minors with access to weapons or drugs to sell.

Reality Check:

We should all be realistic there are no one components that will stop the violent crime problems. It took over twenty- five -years for us to get to this point. It will most likely take half that time to reconstruct and produce suitable, sustainable neighborhoods, communities and families.

M.A.S.K./Founder
Charlene Harris
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Thank you Charlene for all of your hard work with MASK!