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Unity With Community For A Thriving New York City!

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Amanda Wilkinson is running for City Council for District 7 of New York city for the unity and greater support of our community.

Unity with Community is my greatest passion and personal walk through life.

As a child that grew from extreme poverty, to a young adult that survived great odds from a crushing accident and relearned to walk again, my gratitude for life and community is everything I am here for. I lost my mother at the early age of 23, and both of my parents struggled with their health and finances throughout my early life. We were often without adequate resources and on the brink of homelessness. Through the most difficult times of fear and uncertainty, I experienced and understood the value of community and where it stands when united. I never took for granted the second chance at life I received, nor the opportunities that came along the way for me to give back, share my voice to uplift others, and my mission to continue to support community as a whole.

It takes one to give another hope, but it is in unity with community that we thrive!

Education

As a former early childcare and special needs education provider and mother, my understanding and focus on delivering great care and honest leadership to optimize our city’s educational sources, affordable programs and childcare with equality for all. To build on our education system for our educators, staff, specialists and services for children in need, universal after- school programs that provide all children opportunity to have the maximum educational resources to thrive, as well as grant further opportunities for extra curriculum programs for families facing economic inequality and further supporting community programs involving STEM and the Arts.

I went back to school after becoming a single mother to enhance my education and have the greater ability to provide for my child and future. It was through community that provided the support I needed during the challenging time to succeed. Understanding this, working to increase community resources in education for our families including parents who wish to enhance their lives, is the way to reverse social disparities and uplift community.

Children who are given the opportunity to thrive in school, have better outcomes in the future. If this is the only support for many outside of their home, we cannot fail, but provide the resources and opportunities to keep our children uplifted and on a path of success”. -Amanda Wilkinson

Healthcare and Homelessness

As a dedicated healthcare professional, standing strong in providing healthcare equality as I see the challenges for all patients, their caregivers, and the need to better supply our resources and awareness for the high demand in need. Bringing back and supporting our providers, staff, institutions to provide and maintain optimal healthcare. Including awareness and care for our LQBQT community, to those with challenges of mental health, healthcare for homeless, social and racial healthcare disparities.

I will continue to advocate and unite community, hospitals, providers, and administrators for quality healthcare and significantly increase resources into our community.

Having worked and volunteered directly with organizations that provide mental healthcare, care management, and housing services to the homeless community, I understand the challenges, but I see the opportunities where improvement can be improved with unity and by implementing optimal long term solutions and resources.

Inflation and Affordable Housing

As a single mother and resident, like you, I feel the economic hurt of inflation, high taxes, the barriers of affordable housing and the dire need of improving the livelihood of our community.

Unity with community is essential to combating inflation by driving up resources, and not our costs. Having a professional business background in consulting and Real Estate, I take my experience to support the foundation needed for our businesses, organizations, agencies, providers, protectors, that supplies our city’s resources. This is an issue that requires immediate crisis management for our stability and safety.

From leadership on access to affordable resources for our every day needs, increasing investment back into our community and further developing affordable housing, community controlled rents, and improving restrictions for rentals, affordable purchasing, and down payment assistance programs for future home buyers.

When taken away from one, it takes away from all.

Immigration

New York City’s diversity, culture, and economic standing thrives on its history of immigration. To protect our community is to also support our organizations and agencies that aids in legal, workforce, educational, and family programs to facilitate successful foundations for the future of those new to our communities.

Crime and Safety

Unity with community is also focused on strengthening our agencies leadership, the resources implemented for ongoing professional development, training, and education for strong recruits, our public protectors, first responders enforcing public presence, especially in high crime zones, will drive down fear, and maximize our public safety on streets, transportation, and a unit for sustainable organizations throughout our communities.

It is in unity with community where we not only survive, but thrive. WE will do so together”!

Paid for by Amanda M. Wilkinson, for City Council, Manhattan District 7, 2025

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Life is crazy as we know it!

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Life gets crazy. Some out of our complete control. We have always known that for as long as we have lived. However, another thing we know is that everything is temporary. Therefore if the fire on wheels kind of a day rolls around, well tomorrow is a different day you will see. This is the hope that we receive with each day that moves forward.

What is important is to shield our peace from it becoming broken.
Designing each of our days according to what we are given and what it is we desire to acheive.
Only our focus can get is there.
Resources are also with team building and unity with community.
Always working hard and never giving up, no matter how long it may take. The finish line is what counts!
Remembering even when we get stuck, we are also on an adventure. There is always another route, another way. Have fun exploring along the way!

Through our challenges, we never lose sight of where that sliver of light gives us. We continue to enjoy, laugh, live, and reflect on every process. Always give yourself credit, for where you have earned much more than you realize. Self reflection is vital.

What is something you have done this year that you perhaps didn’t find time to do prior?
Go back to school, write a book, start a business, home project, more family time?

Our time is prescious and it is the value in our life that is needed to spend wisely. Take that time out for yourself and the amazing people around you! Thankful for it all.

Never lose hold of the peace and joy only you have at the end of the day! Whatever that brings, keep doing! Nothing is more liberating than this.

-A.M.W

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Life Savings Plan

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When it comes to the development and growth of our person and for the remainder of our life, we first analyze our needs and desires and create steps to getting there, one goal at a time. Sometimes we find it easier to say what we want rather than obtaining it. Life comes in, sacrifices are made, time allows, and all outsourced factors roll in and can often be out of our control. However, for those things that we can anticipate and manage, you can’t lose sight on the mark in which you are and let something or someone else stand in your way of that.

What is set in your mind, will always lead your way. Life has a great way of doing this for us, as long as you remain balanced and centered towards the very thing that you need and want. I have found myself slowly losing what I thought I wanted just because I had other focuses. This can be a good outcome if you perhaps are benefited from the very thing that may get wiped away from the path. However, it becomes a negative in your life if you are not really focused on one or a couple of goals, but are unbalanced and lost in any amount of chaos that results in nothing, and you losing everything around your wants and needs in the meantime. This is also very true if you are taking care of others before taking care of yourself.  I always have said: “Don’t give more or less than what you receive from others”. Not that you nor I expect anything in return from our support to others, however, when you are building up towards all that is lifting you, is the support reciprocated where it could be?

These are  I have learned a couple of times. It is easy to just want around feeling the need to work work work and harder for several passions all at the same time. Even as independent and motivated we are, it is still very difficult to sufficiently manage at a given time. Eventually you will start to seeing that those things may not even work out as planned or not at all. Leaving you with the WTF is happening right now. The answer is nothing! When it comes to spending your assets to giving to others: monetarily, mentally, emotionally, physically; where are those people after? Love and charity are a great thing when you give where you can. We can’t expect others to have the same desire to give back to you. Some will not if there is no benefit to them. Others will because they believe in you. Decipher the thing and the person who will bring light your well being and continue to support and shine together.

Life has its way of designating roles that are pertinent to your plan. Stick with what is given and you will see the same results that you first saw when you started. Life can provide our own savings plan that is uniquely stated by our needs and desires, though not one will be preferred by everyone. This is ok, as your individual plan is made by you and for your continuous growth. Never compromise your personal wealth for anyone or anything that is a risk to the build of your future. Life savings are made to grow, not deplete.

-Amanda Marie Wilkinson