The Island will become overwhelmed with social problems unless residents manage to connect with each other, a community group warned yesterday.Members of Imagine Bermuda pledged to initiate a series of events before the end of summer to help the community come together.Coordinator Glenn Fubler said: “We’ve got to roll out an event that will go in stages from the East End, central Bermuda and the West End, using schools and clubs and churches as a physical base. What we come up with will be a growing model. We need to have it in place by August, and we can develop from there.”Social workers, church leaders and members of the public yesterday joined Imagine Bermuda on the anniversary of the first meeting of the Progressive Group.That group’s actions led to the Theatre Boycott of 1959, which set the end of segregation in motion.Progressive Group founding member Eugene Woods said Bermuda needed action fast.“I want to be a bit of an alarmist. I have seen that in certain areas of Bermuda we now have serious, serious social problems. The situation is very alarming. It is great that we have come here to talk, but we need to get out there as quickly as possible and deal with this.”He said: “I have been listening with great interest to what’s going on, and what I see here is the architect building a house, taking it from the planning stages to a reality.”About 30 social workers, church leaders and members of the public attended a workshop in the Salvation Army’s Hamilton Citadel on North Street.Social psychologist Marcelo Ramella said: “There’s a perception of a breakdown in the relationship between young people and adults, which we need to restore.”Family Centre worker and Youth on the Move board member Chae Powell said: “In the short-term, we can use what we already have to bring people together. If we can keep it up for ten years, we can change the culture of Bermuda.”He said Bermuda’s most immediate need was to provide young people with a space to congregate in safety.Reverend Harold Lambe of the Evening Light Pentecostal Church said: “Seven years ago I came back to Bermuda after 38 years away. I found Bermuda very much changed. I would like to see some of that old Bermuda come back.”Mr Fubler said Imagine Bermuda intends to develop a series of community events in time for the August conclusion of the International Year of Youth.l Useful web links: www.imaginebermuda.org.