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Mental Health & Self-Care
Self-care is essential to maintain your optimal level of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | March 29, 2021 & April 29, 2021, 5:30 - 7:00 PM | All Families | Parent Professional Advocacy League, Inc. | English. Interpretation into other languages must be requested with registration at least 2 days in advance. | Single Session |
Family Leadership Forum & Coffee Hour
Leadership Forums address many of the ways that parents can and have served as advocates for children and families in the Boston Public Schools and take place every 2nd Thursday of the month from 1/14/2021 - 6/10/2021. The topic for this session is social safety curriculum implementation for Intellectually Impaired and ASD students.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Thursday, February 11, 2021, 6:30-8:00 PM | All Families | Behavioral Health Services. Kelly Gallagher | English. Interpretation into other languages must be requested with registration at least 2 days in advance. |
Having “the Talk:” Family Conversations about Healthy Growth & Development K-5
Workshop will include best practices for supporting the safety and healthy development of elementary students, along with an overview of Boston’s K-3 Healthy Relationship, Personal Boundaries, Safety and 4th/5th Healthy Safe Body Unit curricula. Parents will learn and then practice the top ten tips for talking with their students about growth and development along with strategies that empower youth to make healthy choices.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 7:00-8:30 PM | Elementary Families | BPS Office of Health and Wellness | English. Interpretation into other languages must be requested with registration at least 2 days in advance. | Single Session |
Parent Essentials Session: The Urgency For Family Engagement
Parent Essentials is a 10 session/20 hour program designed to build and strengthen parents’ capacity as change agents to support their children’s education and improve Boston Public Schools. In this session, participants will dive into the research regarding the impact of family engagement on student outcomes.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 6:00-8:00 PM | All Families | Monica M. Pomare & Gloria West | English. Interpretation into other languages must be requested with registration at least 2 days in advance. |
Supporting Your Grade 3-5 Reader
Families learn 7 strategies to engage their children with reading on a nightly basis at home with a goal of continuously improving their children's ability to deeply understand all they read.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Thursday, February 25, 2021, 6:00-7:30 PM | Elementary Families | Steve Desrosiers | English |
Positive Solution for Families
In this six session course, participants will learn how to promote children's social and emotional skills, understand their problem behavior, and use positive approaches to help children learn appropriate behavior.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | 3/2/2021 - 4/6/2021, 6:00-8:00 PM | Elementary Families | Monica M. Pomare and Monique Puryear | English. Interpretation into other languages must be requested with registration at least 2 days in advance. | Multiple Session Course |
Family Music & Movement: Latin Night With The Boston Music Project
Join us for an evening of latin music and dance featuring Boston Music Project teaching artist and jazz violist Sébastien Ridoré and NYC-based dancer and fitness instructor Katie Moncebaiz as they lead you through various styles of latin dance from merengue, bachata, and sala! Join us this Wednesday from 7-8pm via Zoom. Sessions take place every 2 weeks from 1/20/2021 - 6/9/2021.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 7:00-8:00 PM | All Families | The Boston Music Project Teaching Artists. Sébastien Ridoré is an active jazz violist and teaching artist at the Boston Music Project. Prior to his time in Boston, Sébastien spent time in the Dominican Republic learning and performing with local artists. Katie Moncebaiz is a dancer, dance educator, and fitness instructor. Katie is a graduate of Hunter College with a Master’s Degree in Dance Education. | English. Interpretation into other languages must be requested with registration at least 2 days in advance. |
Supporting Your Grade 3-5 Mathematician
Families learn the new ways their children are being taught mathematics at school, the specific math they will need to master at each grade level and how to help ensure their children's success.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Saturday, March 6, 2021, 10:00-11:30 AM | Elementary Families | Steve Desrosiers | English |
Family Leadership Forum: Create Together! Music-making apps for the whole family.
In this 90-minute interactive session, youth and parents will unleash their creativity as they explore various free/low-cost music-making applications that they can use together. If you are looking to spice up your family game nights or looking to start a new weekly tradition, this is a great session to take part in! Families are encouraged to attend this virtual session on laptops/desktops computers and be ready to make music together!
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Thursday, March 11, 2021, 6:30-8:00 PM | All Families | Christopher Schroeder, The Boston Music Project Visit bostonmusicproject.org for more information about this organization. | English. Interpretation into other languages must be requested with registration at least 2 days in advance. |
Supporting Your Pre-K Reader
Practices, ides and resources families can use at home tohelp their children become strong readers.
| Location | Neighborhood | Date | Audience | Credits | Presenter | Language | Strand | Type |
| Online | All | Thursday, March 11, 2021, 6:00-7:30 PM | Elementary Families | Steve Desrosiers | English |
