Beyond the Call 24/7 Launches Initiatives Empowering & Supporting the Population of the Caribbean Diaspora

Beyond The Call 24 7 Inc., a public 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose focus is on supporting the people and populations of the Caribbean Diaspora, will  host an innovative and culturally immersive event to empower members of the community through their healing journey.  

Scheduled for Friday, September 12, 2025, from 5:30 - 8:30 PM at the One Vanderbilt building (1 Vanderbilt Ave, 21st floor, in New York City), this gathering will feature creatives from the worlds of art, music, film, as well as wellness professionals.

The art and works of Hollis King, Sherwin Banfield and Alicia Aberdeen-Jones, will be on display – focusing on abuse and healing. Film makers Asha Lovelace and Elspeth Duncan will spotlight the healing aspect.  Steel drummer pannist Earl Brooks, Jr. and  singer/songwriter, Grammy and Black Canadian Award winner Anslem Douglas add to the theme of the event.  

Featured speakers include Consulate General of Trinidad and Tobago J. Andre Laveau, Dr. Tulsa Knox, licensed psychologist/mental health practitioner, Edvardo Archer, Executive Therapist and family therapist, along with Dr. Farley Cleghorn, internationally known health diplomat and award winning epidemiologist, and other powerful, distinguished voices. 

Beyond The Call 24 7, in partnership with “The Hard Issues” segment of the On The Call Podcast Network Experience, is focused on uplifting the community, while realizing that people need community and safe space. “This is our call to action, through Beyond The Call 24 7,” says the organization’s founder Ozzie Stewart. Through this community-minded organization, the nonprofit speaks to the world at large, as well as the present focus on the Trinidadian populations living outside of their homeland, as Ms. Stewart works on opening up conversations with the Caribbean basin. 

With premier sponsorship from TD Bank, FWBK and other community support, Ms. Stewart hopes to create a space wrapped around the power of the Caribbean community, while making room for engagement on the very difficult global conversations of abuse (whether domestic or sexual). 

“It was really important to bring male voices into these conversations because so often the talks happen with only women,” Stewart states. “We knew that we needed to expand the audience and the interaction.”  The event’s objective is to raise funds for grass roots organizations and their multi-tiered and multifaceted endeavors. These platforms assist those who have suffered through and are surviving the very concerns that Beyond The Call 24 7 addresses with passion and purpose.

Beyond the Call 24 7 is the advocacy arm of a four-tiered mission that includes the podcast, dealing with everything from homelessness to trafficking, addiction, substance use and abuse, animal welfare and climate change. This, along with the Trini Corner, which is direct community outreach and donating to the troopers doing the hard work on the streets. 

Stewart, who owned a successful endeavor in the heart of NYC’s Times Square, uses every part of her creative and entrepreneurial being to be a vessel for the people she loves, and that’s everyone. “People have said that my dreams are too big.  I say that this is about service to humanity and I am grateful to be able to do my part.”

For more info, go to www.beyondthecall23.org/events-page/