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Network Events
Connect with Vital Village Network at these upcoming events. Click event to RSVP or learn more.
5:30-8:30pm @ BU School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street
Join network members to have a courageous conversation about discipline and restorative justice. Co-hosts include the
Suffolk County Sheriff's Family Matters Program, the
Family Nurturing Center, and Janet Connors, Restorative Justice practitioner, Trainer and Consultant.
October 17th: Virtual Tour of of NOW Innovation Forum
The Networks of Opportunity for Child Well-being (NOW) Initiative will be hosting a virtual tour of the new NOW Innovation Forum and key features. See below for more information about the great work being done by the NOW Initiative.
Register here http://bit.ly/2IkhsuR.
8:00-4:00pm @ The Kroc Corps Community Center (Salvation Army), 650 Dudley Street
This year's theme is
Community Resilience: Roots of Collective Empowerment. We invite you to join us and our co-hosts to build connections and be inspired by amazing entrepreneurs, experts, and community champions who are making a difference in the Boston community and beyond.
Our keynote speaker has just been announced!
We are excited to welcome
Dr. Marva Lewis,
a sociocultural psychologist who will discuss her research on the act of hair-combing, trauma, bonding, and healing.
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Village Voices
Network members' voices bring good news and share highlights from around our community.
6th Annual Haitian's Americans United Conference
Network member, Smith Lamothe, a member of the
Annual State of Haitian Americans in Massachusetts Conference
that took place on September 8th.
The conference hosted a range of speakers and encouraged
attendees to engage in discussions about civic engagement,
education, child development, and immigration. Congratulations
Smi
th and H.A.U for a successful conference!
Story Highlights
Network member, Dominique Graham, of
Dommie's Blessed
, interviewed many of the
Boston Breastfeeding Coalition
's members--both our peer breastfeeding scholars and parents. To close out Black Breastfeeding Week, Aug 25-31, the Coalition posted a new Scholar Stories which are video interviews and blogs featuring our amazing volunteer breastfeeding counselors who are on a mission to increase breastfeeding support in neighborhoods across Boston.
Watch and read
Dominique Bellegarde, Melody Lopez, and Melissa Minaya tell their stories on The Daily Milk.
Welcome, New Vital Village
Team Member Soojin!
We are excited to welcome a new member to the Vital Village team, Soojin Min. Soojin is our new data coordinator who be working hard to help us better understand the impact of all of our hard work. Soojin is passionate about advancing equitable health policies, promoting health education, and addressing health disparities and inequities. Be sure to give her a warm welcome and check out her full bio here!
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Community Events
Join Vital Village Network partners and other community organizations at these upcoming events. Click event to RSVP or learn more.
10:00am-5:00pm @ 308 Congress St
Come to the Boston Children's Museum for an action-packed day of learning, fun, and discovery. We have limited
free tickets to this event so please reach out to erica.pike@bmc.org if you are interested.
8:00am to 4:00pm @ The Sheraton Framingham Hotel and Conference Center
Join
Mass Kids for a day of skill-building sessions to increase the confidence of school and youth organization leaders to learn how to prevent and respond to a range of boundary-violating behaviors. Register
here.
7:30pm @ The Strand Theater, 543 Columbia Rd Dorchester
The Dorchester Short Film Festival at Dorchester's original "movie palace," the Strand Theater, will be showing award-winning films. Purchase
tickets here
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8:30am to 12:30pm @ The Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Ave
Parenting Journey is hosting the Social & Family Justice Institute, a convening of stakeholders to advance an agenda that promotes community, uplifts parents, and cultivates leadership.This year's Institute focuses on harnessing parents' power to create social change. Here is the registration
link.
Discounts may be available to those who sign-up in a group.
Join this two-day conference with mothers from around the country to learn from each other's successes, gain technical assistance from experts, and build an alliance to end senseless street violence. See
more information and
register
today!
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Opportunities
Check out job, volunteer, and grant opportunities available in our community.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is hiring a Racial Equity Coordinator
to support the bureau in making its programs, policies, and practices more racially equitable. Apply
here.
Boston Youth Sanctuary is hiring a new member for their direct care staff. The new team member will interact with at-risk children residing in inner-city Boston. Look here for more information.
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Resource Connector
Learn more about resources relevant to children and families in our community from our community.
New Resource: Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Innovation Forum
New Resource: Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Innovation Forum
The Vital Village team is excited to announce the launch of the Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Innovation Forum!
The NOW initiative aims to improve
the c
capacity
of local communities and coalitions working to promote child well being and align early childhood systems of care and education by using a trauma-informed lens.
The NOW Innovation Forum brings together resources and stories in a central hub, to promote shared learning and networking among communities across the country.
Through this online platform, members of the NOW network will be able to access a wide range of tools to increase the reach, scale, and sustainability of local efforts
. This includes tools focused on NOW's key levers of community change: how to utilize equity tools; develop inclusive, family-centered coalition and governance processes; mobilize broader community engagement; utilize data and storytelling tools; and plan for sustainability.
100 Ways to Play
The Boston Children's Museum sha nred a resource on
100 Ways to Play, creative
ways for children and
adults to play and grow together. Check out some
new
ways that you and your kids can play together!
Launch of New Abundance App
Thanks to the visioning of network members
Suzeth Dyer-Dunn and Patrick Dunn, we have
Abundance
shows you affordable, healthy food
options near you to
increase the accessibility of
healthy food resources.
Download
the app for your iPhone today!
The Family Independence Initiative (FII) trusts and invests
directly in low-income families
so they can
work individually and collectively
to achieve prosperity. FII
does this by providing a technology
platform to strengthen social networks, access resources, and support one another
in achieving mobility. FII-Greater Boston
is currently enrolling families in Cambridge, MA. Please contact
crystal@fii.org
for more information.
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Scoop on the Stats
Explore data related to child and family well-being.
Did you know that 69% of parents say that they would use more positive parenting strategies if they knew them? (Source: Zero to Three) Positive parenting is all about making choices that reflect your beliefs and values as a parent, your child's age and stage of development, and your child's temperament.
If you'd like to learn more parenting and educator discipline strategies, join in at our Courageous Conversation on October, 15th, 5:30 to 8:30.
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