Ashton Burrell and Edison Job Corps Academy will partner to bring awareness to Gun Violence

September 26, 2019 – (New Jersey) Ashton Burrell’s Shoot Hoops Not Guns is back for another impactful event to raise awareness of gun violence on Thursday October 3, 2019. This year alone there have been 41,603 reported gun related incidents and 11,056 fatalities in the USA according to the Gun Violence Archive. Award winning humanitarian and founder of LIVE (Life in Visions of Evolutions) Mentorship Ashton Burrell along with Edison Job Corp have come together in support of putting a stop to senseless gun violence. “The event brings awareness on the effects of gun violence to not just the victims but everyone else who suffers with them. The victim’s family has to live without them and the killer’s family without them in most instances in my community. When this happens its generations that are destroyed by one simple mistake. We also provide alternatives to guns at the game by bringing in We Nova to provide on the spot career development. Sometimes people make the wrong mistakes with guns when they have too much time on their hand, so we want to just provide as many different outlooks on life to the community as possible!” says Burrell. The daytime event will provide education on gun violence and also remember those who have passed away from senseless gun violence. There will also be surprise special guests and community leaders in attendance to participate and support the players. The Edison Job Corps is proud to host this event for the trainees currently enrolled in the program. This event is exclusively for the Job Corps Trainees who are dedicated to serving their community in support of taking a stand against gun violence.

The Event Details:
Date: ​Thursday October 3, 2019
Time: ​2:00 pm
Location: ​500 Plainfield Ave, Edison, NJ 08817

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Ashton Burrell:
Ashton Burrell is the founder of the LIVE Mentorship Program (LMP), which he founded in 2011 while a sophomore at Lincoln University.  LMP was created to provide mentoring to all youth between the ages of 9 to 19 from different paths and cultures of life within his surrounding communities. My brother developed a strong bond with the youths that was life-altering. The program maintains a 100% graduation rate for every senior that has been in the program. Since 2011 Burrell has helped and inspired over 400 students to graduate from high school.

Mr. Burrell’s activities are not limited to mentoring.  He has organized marches and rallies for social justice and judicial equity, advocates for all communities, petitions corporations for fairness and diversity in hiring practices. Mr. Burrell has also help lead efforts throughout the Nation. These efforts have helped over 500 victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, TX and Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. Burrell has also helped lead efforts to provide over 250 books to schools in West Philadelphia and so much more.

Mr. Burrell is the Chairman of the Human Relations Council for the State of New Jersey as a Governor appointed member, a member of the NAACP New Brunswick Branch Executive Board, and Chairman of the Highland Park Human Relations Commission. After being honored by the state of New Jersey as a Community Leader, Burrell used that momentum to begin making major moves that would not only reach our youth, but ultimately people in communities around the world. Constantly receiving notoriety for all of his contributions, Burrell sacked more awards, earning popular features in U.S.A. Today, OWN Network and BET. For his many social and community engagements, Mr. Burrell was recognized with the Johnson and Johnson MLK Community Service Award at the Johnson and Johnson headquarters. Burrell also received the NAACP New Brunswick’s branch President’s award, The Spread the Word 2nd Annual Humanitarian Award, Highland Park MLK Humanitarian award and other great awards of recognition.  He has also authored and published his first book, A Breakdown of Impact.

Edison Job Corp:
National Mission:

Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 to 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. The Job Corps program is authorized by Title I-C of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (supersedes WIA 1998). For more information about the Job Corps program at a national level, please visit our Official Public Web Site. https://edison.jobcorps.gov/

Edison Job Corps Center’s Mission:

At Edison Job Corps Center, we support the Job Corps program’s mission to teach eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and place them in meaningful jobs or further education.