Environment

Places to Play

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  Playground

  Mother: Crystal R
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  The only safe playground

  Mother: Crystal R
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  Vulnerable hands and feet

  Mother: Crystal R
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  Contaminated Drug Needle

  Mother: Crystal R
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  No Safe Place to Play

  Mother: Ashley O

  Graffiti is everywhere… everywhere.  It’s like wallpaper, it won’t go away.

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  Drug Trash in Playground

  Mother: Ashley O

  "Weed bags and blunt wrappers that are found right next to the slides."

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  Drug Trash in Playground--"Wet"

  Mother: Ashley O

  "Even though that’s empty you can smell the embalming fluids.  It’s the worst smell in the world.  It smells like mint from far away, but when you get closer if you know what “wet” smells like you know it’s wet.  My kids are like two feet tall, and they’re right next to it, so they’re smelling that.  That’s disgusting."
   

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  Graffiti

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Reach for the Stars

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Abandoned Lot

  Mother: Whitney H

  "This lot is unsafe because this is a body-dumping lot. People kill people and just dump the bodies over there. In the past four years there’s been three or four bodies that’s been found in that lot."

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  A Hot Summer Day

  Mother: Tianna G
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  The Neighborhood

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Yard

  Mother: Crystal S
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  At the playground

  Mother: Marinette R
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  She needs dance classes

  Mother: Tiffany R
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  Playing around

  Mother: Christina K
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  Swinging

  Mother: Christina K
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  Brothers in the park

  Mother: Christina K
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  Brothers in the park

  Mother: Christina K
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  Homeless man in the park

  Mother: Melanie H