by Rachel | Jul 26, 2021 | Featured, Northeast, Southeast, Uncategorized, Updates
For over 30 years, the Family Leadership Series has helped grow family leaders who create positive change within their families, communities, across the state and beyond every day. GET READY FOR A SIX MONTH, LIFE-CHANGING CRASH COURSE IN: Advocacy & Leadership...
by Rachel | Jul 12, 2021 | Featured, Northeast, Southeast, Uncategorized, Updates
A lot has been changing here at MassFamilies! We’d like to introduce you to some new faces on our team. MassFamilies welcomes Karen Claudio to the role of Southeast Region Coordinator for the Family Leadership Series. Karen Claudio, Southeast Regional...
by Rachel | Apr 12, 2021 | Advocacy, Central, Featured, Metro-Boston, Northeast, Our Voice, Southeast, Uncategorized, Updates, West
More than 70 family members, self-advocates, professionals, and policymakers showed up to share with and listen to one another on April 5 for our kick-off OUR VOICE community call. A BIG THANK YOU to Representative Kip DiggsRepresentative Andres X. VargasNeha Singh...
by Rachel | Mar 22, 2021 | Featured, Northeast, Uncategorized, Updates
MassFamilies is looking for a Northeast Regional Coordinator that aligns with our core values as an organization and has direct experience supporting a family member with disabilities and/or complex medical needs. Must live in the Northeast Region. Ideal candidates...
by Rachel | Jul 6, 2020 | Family Leadership Series, Featured, Northeast, Uncategorized, Updates
Congratulations to Family Leadership Series graduate, Raquel Quezada, who spoke as part of the Governor’s press conference on guidance for re-opening schools on June 25, 2020. Fast forward to 25:30 to hear what Raquel had to say!...
by Rachel | Apr 6, 2020 | Featured, Northeast, Uncategorized, Updates
MFOFC Co-Chair, Sophia Johannson, and MFOFC family leader, Elizabeth Bostic, made waves on the radio this past week on a piece produced by Boston’s NPR News Station, WBUR. These two moms, along with another family caregiver in Massachusetts, painted a vivid...