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Community Organizing in Action: Mobilizing for Change.

Topics: Community asset meeting, engaging hard to reach community members, and campaign strategies.

Description: What is community organizing, and how does it differ from advocacy and other strategies for social change? This training will equip participants with an organizing framework and basic tools needed to mobilize their community. Participants will get an opportunity to practice community power mapping in order to engage stakeholders and hard to reach residents. Participants will walk away with a framework to organize community-driven, goal-oriented campaigns by utilizing clear strategies and tactics shared in this training.

Audience: Coalition leaders and partners, individuals working towards community health and health equity.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:

  1. Describe organizing theories, principles and best practices for community organizing.
  2. Explore foundation level organizing skills and tools that reach all levels of community.
  3. Articulate clear goals and strategies for local organizing campaigns.

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Health Equity in Cross Sector Partnerships.

Description: Public health and community health workers cannot address the social determinants of health alone. Factors like housing, education, employment, access to nutritious food, and more can only be improved through collaboration with partners of the local, state, and federal level along with private sector partnerships. What does it look like when the interests of diverse stakeholders and communities are aligned for the promotion of health equity? In this training, we will go over examples of what these partnerships can look like and how health equity work is strengthened when we work together. Participants will walk away with strategies for addressing health equity with a common language framework and engaging health equity champions to address our communities’ most pressing issue.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to…

  • Define what a cross sector partnership looks like for their work.
  • Explain the value of developing partnerships and cross-sector relationships to promote health equity.
  • Examine the role of public health in activating cross sector partnerships.

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Celebrating our 19th Year of Summer Experiences in Greater Lowell.

Please join us for our 19th Annual Martini Spring Fling to benefit Summer Experiences in Greater Lowell (SEGL) with our honoree, Eileen Donoghue, City Manager of Lowell. SEGL has helped thousands of local kids bridge the achievement gap through life-changing programs that expose them to the arts, increase literacy, empower leaderships skills, and provide summer job experiences.

Sample delicious hors d’oeuvres, bid on exciting silent auction items, and take your chances on our wine pull all while sipping complimentary martinis by the pool!

Ticket Pricing:
$50 for young professionals ages 40 and under.
$75 for “Early Bird” pricing through May 16.
$100 from May 17-30.

Greater Lowell Children’s Fund/Bachand Hall Golf Scramble

Greater Lowell Children’s Fund/Bachand Hall Golf Scramble
June 3, 2019

View from club house at the Merrimack Valley Golf Club
Please join us on June 3, 2019 for the Greater Lowell Children’s Fund/Bachand Hall Golf Scramble.  This event is taking place at Merrimack Valley Golf Club, which is located at 210 Howe Street in Methuen Ma.  Proceeds from this event are raised for the Greater Lowell Children’s Fund and the project at Bachand Hall.  We made the decision to combine the two events with proceeds being split between the two programs.  The Children’s Fund was created to help support children involved with the Department of Children and Families when they are removed from care, need money for extracurricular activities, request special items, wish to accomplish a specific goal such as obtaining their drivers permits, etc.

Bachand Hall is a partnership between the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa and the Department of Children and Families, and is a dorm-like setting for older girls involved with the DCF, and has housed over 160 girls over the past 14 years.
$150 per person fee includes 18 holes of golf, golf carts, gift bag, and dinner.

 

 

 

Suicide Assessment and Intervention Training for Mental Health Professionals.

In this session, you will learn to:

  • Manage personal reactions to suicidal clients.
  • Recognize suicide warning signs and risk and protective factors.
  • Demonstrate techniques to elicit suicidal ideation and history of behaviors.
  • Identify strategies and tools to assess risk.
  • Describe how a client’s ambivalence about suicide is an opportunity to intervene and how the client may view suicide as a coping strategy.
  • Explain the value of appropriate postvention and grief support services for individuals and communities affected by suicide.

Time: 9:00AM-4:30PM (registration from 8:30AM-9:00AM)
Location: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Alumni Hall, 130 Essex Street, South Hamilton, MA.

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