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Joe Perez (Joseph) Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps. BSVAC / Brooklyn, New York
Joe Perez a 20 year veteran Emergency Medical Service worker. Initially with the New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Services then in 1988 teamed-up with co-worker Rocky Robinson and Attorney Tamsin Wolf to co- found the Nationally Acclaimed Bedford Stuyvesant Ambulance Corps. He excelled beyond as an instructor with the American Heart Association, Red Cross and Master Instructor with EMP America. (see citations and commendations). 1988–1998 Bedford-Stuyvesant Ambulance Corps, (BSAC) President and Co-Founder. Before BSVAC was in existence response time for a city ambulance was 20 to 30 minutes and people were dying “Do or Die in Bed-Stuy” that was the saying US News and World Report depicted the area as the “Killing Zone”. The crack epidemic was at its highest a shooting or stabbing every 20 minutes on the average, truly a community in crisis. Joe Perez was Instrumental in development of the BSAC ambulance operation from ground zero to the fastest reducing the response time to under 4 minutes and becoming one of New York State’s busiest ambulance service. This set forth changes through competition, in tactical deployment and community based response that improved the entire industry and set new standards for ambulance response throughout the United States. August 1991 the neighboring community Crown Heights boils over as the death of a 7-year-old sparks riots. Joe was instrumental in donated a van type ambulance and developing the Tri-Community Ambulance Service that help quell the situation. News reached the White House and President Bush personally commented the efforts. THE NEW YORK TIMES WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1991 A Gift of an Ambulance Amid turmoil between blacks and Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, leaders of two Brooklyn volunteer ambulance services —one run by blacks and Hispanics, the other by the Hasidim — announced yesterday that they will help a volunteer ambulance service run by blacks get started. , The Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Service will provide a van which the Hatzolah Volunteer Ambulance Service will refurbish. Together, the services will donate the van to a new service in Crown Heights tentatively called Tri-Community, which an official of the Bedford-Stuyvesant service said has been trying to get started for a year. Harold Jacobs, president of Hatzolah, said the plans were the first glimpse of a silver lining in the tension that has hung over Crown Heights since Aug. 19, when a car driven by a Hasidic man killed a black child, 7-year old Gavin Cato. Four nights of violence followed rumors that emergency medical technicians from Hatzoiah ignored Gavin to tend to the Hasidic driver, Yosef Lifsh. The vice president of the Bedford-Stuyvesant ambulance company, Joe Perez, said: "We knew there was a service trying to get going for about a year now. If it existed. It would probably have been the first on the scene and maybe none of this trouble would have happened."Joe Perez developed many relevant training programs for youth at risk of gang and drug involvement. Moreover, became a way off of Welfare for community residents and created a non-traditional path to higher medical education that build and saved countless lives. While the S.T.E.P program trained thousand of unemployable residents most of which are now employed with the New York City Fire Department and others became Police Officers Nurses, PA’s and Doctors. The Trauma Troopers program addressed youth gang and drug issues the program was so successful that it was adopted by the Brooklyn; NY DA office among hundreds of awards and honors was 1991 -1992 White House recipient of President Bush Thousand Points of light, Jefferson and Maxwell House Real hero awards. 1993-1997 while consulting for the White House office of National Service was honored to be a guest speaker at the 1992 GOP in Huston Texas audience 60k (see publication): REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION 1992 REMARKS BY JOE PEREZ NEW YORK, NEW YORK First of all, I'd like to say, Thank you, President Bush. Thank you, President Bush. Thank you, President Bush, for honoring us as one of America's "Points of Light". (Applause). We have worked hard to bring America's hope and challenge to our most hardheaded communities — a place where drugs and despair threatens the very lives of our community and our young people. We may have turned on the light in "Bed-Sty", but it's the young people that ride on those ambulances and help keep it shining. We can make a difference. We can save our community. We can work together. Even in the darkest night, the sky is filled with stars. Thank you, President Bush, for looking up and showing America the "Points of Light". Thank you. (Applause.) "Shortly, after Joe relocated to California on the heels of the LA riots, lead to working in Central LA with Actor William Shatner (right) and provided intervention to gang violence. International Association of EMT’s & Paramedics Ventura County California Subsidiary of NAGE National Association of Government Employees Position: National Representative Duties: Organizer and representative of government employee August 00 – Jan. 01 New York City Technical College 250 Jay Street The City University of New York Brooklyn, NY 11201 Position: Faculty Member/Emergency Medical Services EMS Program Coordinator Duties: include development and coordination of Emergency Medical Technician courses NYS Employee/Consultant - Director Charlie Johnston February 2000- 2002 Pace University New York   World Trade Center Disaster Committee Position: Consultant Duties: Program Development Expansion and Recruitment --Doctor Shelly Gimenez, VP for Academic Affairs April 1, 2001 – October 1, 2003 Hempstead Community Court Hempstead, NY Law Enforcement Position: “Community Service Field Supervisor” Acting as an extension of the “Hempstead Community Court” duties included supervision of defendants to ensure fulfillment and continuity of court mandate sanctions. Other responsibilities include: program development, photographer and driver; purchases of program supplies and equipment. Services sub-contacted through Family and Children Association. Ref: Honorable Judge Denise L Sher, President of LI Bar Association. June 2003 – 2005 Alliance Mortgage Banking Corp 3601 Hempstead NY Position: Assistant Manager/Loan Officer -- development of marketing material, leads, sales and networking. Plan and developed “First Time Home Buyers Seminars” (English/Spanish). Organized networking meetings and all paper work associated with loan applications. In addition, to working with loan products  such as, Desktop Underwriting (DU) Indy Mac, Fannie Mae, Sonny Mae, FHA/VA and Real Estate Investment Trust (RIT) (Ref: Community Partnership Committee). __NOINDEX__ __NEWSECTIONLINK__