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 | Oct 19, 2020 | Family Leadership Series, Featured, Southeast, Updates
It is with pride we congratulate Valeryia Pedersen for her new position as Southeast Regional Coordinator for the Family TIES program (Together In Enhancing Supports) at the Federation for Children with Special Needs. Val graduated in 2018 from the Family...
by Rachel | Apr 6, 2020 | Southeast, Uncategorized, Updates
A current member of this year’s Southeast Family Leadership Series, Michelle Winchell, has been collaborating and sharing the experience and insight she gained from her background in education to help others navigate remote learning during the Coronavirus...
by Rachel | Sep 20, 2019 | Southeast, Uncategorized, Updates
MFOFC wants to introduce you to the movers and shakers in our state, the family leaders who are working to make change for people with disabilities in their communities and beyond. The ones who are imagining better and then making their ideas happen. This week,...