PHOTO GALLERY    Public Release Event – 1/29/07

Beacon Youth Council members welcome guests to the BRC Report Release Event

A future member of the Compact watching the string quartet from Philadelphia’s Creative and Performing Arts High School.

The Simons Dancers perform at the opening of the event with over 250 guests watching from the balcony.

Guests at the BRC Report Release Event including BRC Members, BRC Committee Members, city officials, staff of child-serving systems and children, youth and families.

Young people from ECS and Gillespie Beacon programs reading the Vision of the Philadelphia Compact.

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Mayor John F. Street receives the final report from his Blue Ribbon Commission on Children’s Behavioral Health, applauded by Co-Chairs, Judge Dougherty and Councilwoman Reynolds Brown, Dr. Evans, and Speaker O’Brien.

Blue Ribbon Commission Members, Paul Vallas and Dr. Paul Fink, identify themselves as the Mayor acknowledges the Commission’s accomplishments.

Mayor Street addresses the guests at the National Constitution Center.

Councilwoman Reynolds Brown, Co-chair of the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Children’s Behavioral Health, speaks of the critical importance of their work.

Dr. Evans, Director of the Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services and Acting Commissioner of the Department of Human Services, lays out the plan for implementing the recommendations of the BRC, the Philadelphia Compact.

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Speaker O’Brien as he addressed the crowd at the BRC Report Release Event

Mr. Paul Vallas, CEO of the Philadelphia Public Schools, speaks to his role and the School District’s role in the BRC and the Philadelphia Compact.

Mr. Salome Thomas-EL, the keynote speaker, and Philadelphia Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006, addresses the guests at the NCC.

The Philadelphia Compact: A Citywide Commitment to the Healthy Social and Emotional Development of All Philadelphia’s Children - as it acquires its initial 250+ signatures.

The St. Martin de Porres Beacon Choir sing beautifully as guests sign onto the Philadelphia Compact.

Judge Dougherty, Co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Children’s Behavioral Health and Administrative Judge of Family Court, signs onto the Philadelphia Compact.

Guests at the National Constitution Center sign onto the Philadelphia Compact.

The Honorable John O’Brien, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, after signing onto the Philadelphia Compact.

Dr. Arthur C. Evans, Jr., Director of the Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services and Acting Commissioner of the Department of Human Services, adds his signature to the Philadelphia Compact.

Blue Ribbon Commission Member, Mary Tillery, and youth from the St. Martin de Porres Beacon sign onto the Philadelphia Compact.

Adults, youth and children were encouraged to sign-onto the Philadelphia Compact and join in the citywide effort to promote children’s social and emotional health.

A young person adds his name to the Philadelphia Compact.

Sayre Beacon youth pose after they assisted with acquiring signatures for the Philadelphia Compact.