‘Where are the parents?’ New city task force created to increase parental involvement keeping kids, teens safe [Video]

PHILADELPHIA – A city hall round table overflowed during the first meeting of city Councilman Anthony Phillips’ Parent and Guardian Engagement Task Force Tuesday.

At the round table sat everybody from high school students to high achievers in life, all hoping to find a way to help those raising kids in Philly keep them out of trouble and out of the awful kids and crime headlines.

“You all being here is one of the first steps to us solving and coming with answers to that question of ‘Where are the parents’?” said Anthony Phillips, Philadelphia City Councilman.

The Task Force was created in response to Mayor Cherelle Parker’s state of emergency due to public safety concerns.

“Parents definitely need support as we address years and years and years of systematic disinvestment primarily in Black and brown neighborhoods,” said Kenyatta Johnson, City Council President.

“What advice do you give the government in terms …