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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 20, 2023 Page 4 Presentation by Stuart Muszynski, President & CEO, Values -in -Action Foundation Council President Schutt stated, thank you. Hopefully you are enjoying your refreshments and got to talk a little bit as well. Next, we would like to introduce Mr. Stuart Muszynski, President and CEO of Values in Action Foundation. He will be giving us a brief presentation. Mr. Muszynski stated, we are going to start with two videos which will give all of you a preliminary idea of what we do. https://voutu.be/-W5zc-Kw2do Mr. Muszynski stated, thank you everyone for the opportunity to speak before Council and to the City of Mayfield Village. Mr. Muszynski provided further information which is summarized below: We are proud to be located in Mayfield Village since 2016 Based in the Cleveland area 4500 schools participate in all 50 states, 700 in Ohio in 75 out of 88 counties Kindland has been around for 29 years as an organization Promote in schools kindness, caring and respect Trained 1.5 million students Kindness crusade: Civility has been so degraded in our country. We can no longer separate the air between school and community with all the same culture Participants: CMSD, Akron Schools, suburban schools from Elyria through Mentor and a number of municipalities Kindland: it takes 5 positives to offset 1 negative in the human mind. We heard an incredible positive of saving a life prior to my presentation We need a central core value that everyone can wrap their arms around. Kindness is that central core value At George Williams' alma mater, John Adams, it was the most violent high school in the City of Cleveland. We intervened and came in with our program from 2017-2020. By 2020, the graduation rate increased from 50% to 93%. Suspensions were down over 70%. There were -0- fights in the school. George walked through the halls both pre and post and saw the difference. Little intentional acts of kindness keep our society going. We get that from our families and neighbors to make your day. Being a Mayfield Village based non-profit company, we are asking Mayfield Village to get involved. We all can do acts of kindness. 87% of all mass shooters were bullied. Over 90% of the mass shooters say that they have been disrespected. If we create a community of respect, kindness and high regard, we might not turn that scenario around in one year, but let's face it, it took many years for our country to get to the situation we are in where we don't know if we are going to be safe when we are going somewhere. This puts the power back in all of our laps. We have a Kindness reporting app called Just Be Kind. Whenever you see an act of kindness, put it on the app. It becomes the part of our community consciousness.