Community Dialogue in a Time of COVID video HERE The Oct. 16 FOCUS Forum was about maintaining community dialogue in a time of pandemic and change. This free virtual FOCUS Forum features a few experts on bringing people together in Central New York. You can see it now at the link above. JahQuan Bey-Wright and […]
NOW ON VIDEO HERE Syracuse Stage, CNY Jazz Arts, and Point of Contact Gallery are three very different arts organizations and each evolved new ways of reaching their audience this year. The combined virtual FOCUS Forum and Thursday Morning Roundtable was 8 a.m. Thursday Oct. 29, 2020. Bob Hupp and Jill Anderson from Syracuse Stage, […]
Housing in a time of COVID The free virtual Forum for September provided insight into how the pandemic has affected housing in Central New York for buyers, sellers, renters, landlords and developers. Three experts in the local housing market spoke about how COVID has changed the housing market and the pandemic effect going forward. […]
Healing the Earth in a Time of COVID features Dr. Neil Murphy, who led O’Brien & Gere engineering and SUNY ESF, and Onondaga Environmental Institute President Dr. Ed Michalenko discussing lessons from the pandemic shutdown. See the August 2020 FOCUS Forum here.
Watch Recording Former SUNY ESF President Neil Murphy and Onondaga Environmental Institute President Ed Michalenko explore the opportunities and challenges for the environment in a new virtual FOCUS Forum. While the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked horrible tragedy, the resulting shutdown has provided some time to heal. This forum will touch on how the environment has […]
Watch Recording Social Distancing and Isolation Under COVID: Coping with Physical and Mental Health Challenges The FOCUS Forum is now in a virtual format. The first virtual forum featured FOCUS Wisdom Keeper Sharon Brangman, MD, Chair of the Department of Geriatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Tracey Musarra Marchese, Professor of Practice in Syracuse […]
The first virtual Forum on Coping with COVID Challenges features Sharon Brangman, MD, Chair of the Department of Geriatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Tracey Musarra Marchese, Professor of Practice in Syracuse University’s School of Social Work.
FOCUS began 2020 with a Forum on the Future on Friday Jan. 31. Attendance at FOCUS Forums roughly doubled year-over-year in 2019 driven by topics of vital interest to the community, coordination with like-minded organizations, and introductions to new leadership in city and county government, police, and broadcasting. Thank you to Syracuse University’s Office of […]
Emergencies come in many different forms. Onondaga County Emergency Management Commissioner Dan Wears and Chris Gorman, Principal Program Manager for Community and Customer Management at National Grid, spoke about the coordinated work it takes to be prepared for anything whenever it may happen. They were the featured speakers in the February Forum.
The Sept. 12 FOCUS Forum with Thursday Morning Roundtable featured renewable energy projects going on in Central New York right now. An audio version airs 8 p.m. Sunday Sept. 15 on WCNY-FM and will be on the web at wcny.org Chris Carrick of the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board and Lindsay Speer […]