LAUDERHILL – The Metropolis of Lauderhill will launch Peace Month 2025 with a Peace Rally & Useful resource Honest on Sunday, June 1, from 3 PM to six PM at Lauderhill Metropolis Corridor (5581 W. Oakland Park Blvd.). Now in its third yr, this annual commemoration of Nationwide Gun Violence Consciousness Month serves as an pressing name to finish gun violence. It additionally goals to unite the group in therapeutic and motion.
Led by Commissioner Melissa P. Dunn and powered by the Lauderhill Peace365 initiative, the rally will characteristic the revealing of a youth-created Peace Quilt. It would additionally embrace Peace Maker Awards honoring native changemakers, dwell performances, and 15 useful resource distributors. Moreover, there would be the launch of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Peace and Prosperity in Lauderhill. The primary 200 individuals to register and attend will obtain a complimentary Peace365 shirt.
Peace Month in Lauderhill
Peace Month will go on all through June. It would characteristic group occasions like Youth and Grownup Peace Empowerment Workshops. There may even be a hands-on Group Peace Backyard challenge. These experiences are designed to equip residents with instruments for emotional wellness, battle decision, and civic duty.
“Peace Month is our metropolis’s invitation to each resident to be a part of the answer,” stated Commissioner Melissa P. Dunn. “Once we come collectively—authorities, nonprofits, households, and faith-based organizations—we create a Lauderhill the place everybody has the chance to really feel protected, be wholesome, and thrive.”
This initiative is made potential via the assist of devoted group companions. These embrace the Kids’s Companies Council of Broward County, United Manner of Broward County, and the Lauderhill Well being and Prosperity Partnership (LHPP).
With greater than 140 confirmed shootings and over 2,000 home disturbance calls in Lauderhill in 2024, this yr’s Peace Month is greater than symbolic—it’s a rallying cry for actual change.
For full occasion particulars or to RSVP, go to: www.lauderhill-fl.gov/peacemonth
