Crisco is a member of the Mental Health Services Working Group of the legislature’s Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety, created last month in response to the December school shootings in Newtown.
Crisco said the forum, held in the Michael J. Adanti Student Center theater, was particularly poignant; four of the 26 Newtown victims had direct ties with SCSU.
“The importance of continuing this dialogue with
respect to safeguarding our students and all state residents from
potential gun violence cannot be understated,” he said.
“Today’s forum was extremely productive in that it helps all of us who
were there stay focused on addressing the causes and working to prevent
future incidents of gun violence.”
Crisco
and others were welcomed to the forum by Peter Troiano,
Interim Vice President of Student and University Affairs, and the
senator was formally introduced by Mary A. Papazian, President of SCSU.
“I’m grateful to the faculty and administration at
SCSU for inviting me to today’s event and I applaud their continuing
commitment to transforming such a shocking, horrible circumstance into
something positive and constructive in our state,” Crisco said.
“As our Mental Health Services Working Group – and each of the other
working groups – refines its legislative recommendations to the task
force at large we will continue soliciting
input from all parties since it is so abundantly clear all parties
remain deeply affected by what happened that day.”
This was taken from a press release from Crisco's office.
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