New Bedford Hiring Event - Gándara Center
2024-05-22 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 376 Nash Rd, New Bedford, MA, 376 Nash Rd, New Bedford, 02740, United States
We’re hiring! Join us Wednesday, May 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in New Bedford. Come meet us, learn about the roles we have to offer like the opportunity to be a Youth Mentor or Clinician, and make a difference in our community.

The Journey Home
2024-05-22 12:00 - 15:15 | Webinar
Live Interactive Webinar
Instructor: James Cavitt, M.S.W. and Kristopher McLucas, LCSW, MPH
Level: Intermediate
Reentry and Trauma Informed Approaches: May 22nd, 2024, 12 – 3:15 PM
Reentry and Community Connection: May 29th, 2024 12 – 3:15 PM
CEs: Up to 6 CEs, 3 CEs earned per session
Review CE accreditation and approvals for this course on tab above.
More and more of our incarcerated community members are returning home; however, high rates of recidivism continue to impact our families and communities. Therefore as mental health professionals, we must be equipped to provide social justice-oriented care to our returning citizens that addresses the key factors that contribute to recidivism.
This two part series will educate and empower mental health professionals on how to successfully serve the formerly incarcerated community through a social justice lens. The series is facilitated by James Cavitt, M.S.W., and Kristopher McLucas, LCSW, MPH who have extensive experience working with the reentry population in the greater Los Angeles community. This training series will incorporate perspectives from professional experience, research, theory and lived experience to highlight the best practices to successfully work with the reentry community. It is designed for mental health professionals, program administrators and advocates that want to increase their capacity to better serve the reentry community.

Housing Search Workshop
2024-05-23 13:00 - 15:30 | MA
Make your housing search as successful as possible! This FREE workshop is open to unhoused people seeking apartments, currently housed people looking to move, and anyone interested in housing search tips and tricks. Topics covered include:
BudgetingTown preferencesSubsidized vs. market rate housingHow to fill out an applicationBackground checksTenant responsibilities
And much more!
Workshops are in-person at the Way Finders 1780 Main Street, Springfield.
Thursday, May 23, 1pm-3:30pm

Equity in Mental Health
2024-05-29 09:00 - 12:30 | MA
How do systems of inequality and oppression affect mental health, and treatment to that health? What can we do to provide a supportive community where all individuals can find solace, understanding and validation.
Presenter Ysabel Garcia, from Estoy Aqui LLC, has first hand experience, and uses that along with extensive training and education, to discuss this large topic.
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This session is part of our 2024 Workplace Equity Series.
Session 3: Examining a Gender Inclusive Workplace
Wednesday June 5th
Presenter: Think Again Training
Session 4: The Future of Equity
Wednesday June 12th
Presenter: NCCJ
Session 5: Cohort Plan Creation
Wednesday June 26th
Presenters: Janine Fondon and Lucie Lewis
Session 6: CLOSING PANEL- Where Do We Go From Here?
Wednesday July 3rd
Moderators: Janine Fondon and Lucie Lewis
Thank You to Our Series Sponsors:

Thank you Annual Sponsors:

Team Building and Conflict Resolution
2024-05-30 09:00 - 12:30 | MA
Team Building and Conflict Resolution- Build your team up, making the whole stronger than the sum of their parts. Learn tips and tactics to help drive unity. Be able to address when conflict does happen, leading back to making your team work in harmony.

Creating the Roadmap for Effective Clinical Supervision
2024-05-30 12:00 - 15:15 | Webinar
Live Interactive Webinar
Instructor: Amie R. Bryant, LCSW, CAS
Level: Intermediate
CEs: 3
Review CE accreditation and approvals for this course on tab above.
In this workshop, participants will explore the administrative tasks of getting ready to provide clinical supervision. The roles and responsibilities of clinical supervision and how to structure the supervisory session will also be discussed. Designed to be experiential in nature, participants will be expected to engage and participate in relevant dialog and small group discussions. Participants will walk away with tangible and concrete steps to prepare for starting the journey of clinical supervision.

Capacity Building Grant 2024 For Individual Artists Application Opens
2024-05-31 08:00 - 17:00 | MA
ATTENTION MASSACHUSETTS ARTISTS!! Are you new to #ValleyCreates and live or have studio space in Hampden, Hampshire, or Franklin County? Don’t miss the opportunity to apply for a Capacity-Building Grant opening THIS FRIDAY, May 31st.

Funded by the Community Foundation’s ValleyCreates program and administered by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists (A4A) program, Capacity-Building Grants provide selected artists:

A $2,500 grant

Business/career planning resources

Personal financial literacy resources

Two individual one-hour coaching sessions

Access to Assets for Artists’ professional development workshops

Community-building with fellow artists, and more!

Learn more and apply starting May 31st at: https://communityfoundation.org/…/capacity-grant-2023/

8th Annual Regional Gathering
2024-05-31 10:00 - 11:30 | Western Mass Network to End Homelessness
Please join us at the Kittredge Center for Business and Workforce Development for the Network’s 8th Annual Gathering of state legislators, local officials and partners from across from our four western counties to acknowledge the extraordinary work to prevent and end homelessness in our region, and the vision for going forward.
Special guests and agenda coming soon. Please mark your calendar now!

Community Foundation of Western MA Virtual Open Office Hours
2024-05-31 11:00 - 13:00 | MA
The Community Impact Team will have virtual open office hours for nonprofits and other stakeholders

Barbie Dream House of Horrors
2024-05-31 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
It’s time to start the show! Tickets go on sale TODAY! Get your tickets now for Barbie’s Dream House of Horrors at pathlight.life/BarbieDreamHouseofHorrors for Friday 5/31 at 7 p.m. or Saturday 6/1 at 2 p.m. Tickets start at $15. For $25 you can buy the Dream Ticket which includes your ticket PLUS a show poster AND a sticker!

All sales support Whole Children and Milestones programming. You won’t want to miss out on this mash up. Tickets sell out every year, so PLEASE don’t wait to buy yours.

Take it from actor, Lucie Pasche, “It’s going to be weird, too weird, but I can’t wait for the theater production. I’m so excited!”

One for the Books
2024-06-01 | MA
Sign up to be part of One for the Books a summer Read-a-Thon to support the work of Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity.

Veteran Homeowner Repair Services Accepting Applications
2024-06-01 | Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity, 268 Cold Spring Ave, West Springfield, MA, 01089, United States
Greater Springfield Habitat is accepting applications for veteran homeowners needing home repair services. Please call our office at 413-739-5503 to receive an application and home assessment. Open to any honorably discharged veteran must be able to provide a copy of DD214 to verify veteran status.

Banding Together Community Social
2024-06-01 15:00 - 19:00 | Chicopee Moose Family Center, 244 Fuller Road, Chicopee, MA, 01020, United States
Concert fundraiser to raise funds that will directly contribute to providing training and/cerftifications and support to prepare individuals for a successful career.
We’ve been able to find employment for thousands of individuals over the last 40 plus years! Your parternership or participation would not only demonstrate your commitment to the community but also align yourself with a great cause.
2 local bands, 3X Social and Trailer Trash will be preforming June 1, 2024, 3:00PM-7:00PM, at 244 Fuller Road, Chicopee, MA 01020.

Examining a Gender Inclusive Workplace
2024-06-05 09:00 - 12:30 | MA
We spend so much time at work, we want our staff to feel comfortable to bring their authentic selves to this space. But is your workplace a safe environment for marginalize identities, including trans and nonbinary workers.
Join us as presenters from Think Again Training discuss gender in nuanced ways, and how to normalize gender diversity.

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This session is part of our 2024 Workplace Equity Series.
Session 4: The Future of Equity
Wednesday June 12th
Presenter: NCCJ
Session 5: Cohort Plan Creation
Wednesday June 26th
Presenters: Janine Fondon and Lucie Lewis
Session 6: CLOSING PANEL- Where Do We Go From Here?
Wednesday July 3rd
Moderators: Janine Fondon and Lucie Lewis
Thank You to Our Series Sponsors:

Thank you Annual Sponsors:

32nd Annual Western Mass Elder Care Conference
2024-06-06 08:00 - 16:00 | Holyoke Community College/ Kettredge Center, United States
The Western Mass Elder Care Conference serves as a crucial platform for professionals, caregivers, and stakeholders to converge, exchange knowledge, and explore innovative solutions tailored to the evolving landscape of elder care. The AM Keynote Presentation features Lifestyle Medicine for Leaders: presented by Beth Frates, MD, Harvard Medical School, and the PM Keynote Presentation features Breaking Through the Hype of AI: presented by Delcie Bean, CEO of Paragus Strategic IT. Twenty-two separate Workshops will cover such topics as: Navigating Change with Oder Adults using Motivational Interviewing; Supporting Seniors and Families with Graceful Transitions; How to have a Supportive Conversation about Substance Abuse; The latest in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research, and a Panel Discussion on Elder Care Options. The conference offers invaluable insights and resources aimed at enhancing the quality of life for seniors.

Integrating Theory and Practice: Advanced Psychodynamic Techniques
2024-06-06 13:00 - 16:15 | Webinar
Live Interactive Webinar
Instructor: Patricia Gianotti, Psy.D.
Level: Intermediate
CEs: 6
June 6 & 7, 2024, 1 – 4:15 p.m. ET
This is a multiple-day session. In order to receive CEs, you must attend both days
This seminar is designed to help clinicians identify how early childhood attachment experiences and/or failures are directly connected to the development of one’s beliefs, values, motivation and assumptions about the self in the world and self in relationship to others. Regardless of one’s therapeutic orientation or level of experience, conceptualizing how parts of the person connect or do not connect to form an integrated, cohered self is an acquired skill that deepens and improves over time.
Participants will review techniques including moment-to-moment tracking, forecasting, mirroring and listening to the subtle nuance of language to help uncover hidden feelings that lie beneath the surface of the therapeutic exchange. Through tracking these process dynamics, participants will be shown how to stay aligned with the client’s experience in the present, thus creating a more secure therapeutic holding environment.
The structure of this course will be a combination of lecture, group discussion, pre-recorded videotaped session vignettes as well as practicing techniques of “what to say next”. Through these examples, participants will be shown how minor disappointments can trigger feelings of shame, micro-dissociative ruptures and possible negative transferential responses on the part of our clients. We will discuss and practice how to catch and repair minor ruptures that occur throughout the treatment process, thus preserving and strengthening the therapeutic relationship.

First Time Homebuyers Fair
2024-06-06 17:30 - 20:00 | MA

Paint & Pinot Party
2024-06-07 18:00 - 21:00 | MA
Paint and Sip party hosted by the Raymour and Flanigan Outlet Store, 1406 Elm Street, West Springfield, to support Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity.
Join us for a fun night of painting, conversation, wine tasting and raffle prizes.
Preregistration is required, cost is $30.00 paid at the door

CHD All In: Barrier-Free Recreation Ride Along
2024-06-08 09:00 - 13:00 | MA
Saturday, June 8
Redstone Rail Trail
East Longmeadow, MA
CHD’s All In program is partnering with local fire and police departments to hold its first annual Ride Along event in East Longmeadow. This is an all-inclusive fun “roll” event for people with and without disabilities to come together for a special day on the Redstone Rail Trail!
The Ride Along will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at The Depot at Graham Central Station, 64 Maple Street, East Longmeadow. Registration fee is $10; kids 12 and under ride free. Rain date is June 9.

First Time Homebuyer Workshop (English)
2024-06-08 09:00 - 14:00 | MA
Become a certified first-time homebuyer with Way Finders! Learn from local real estate professionals about the homebuying process.
The course covers finding, financing, purchasing, and maintaining a home. Participants receive a certificate of completion that is necessary to access several down payment assistance programs and special mortgage products.
This is a two-part virtual workshop:
Saturday, June 8, 9am-2pmSaturday, June 15, 9am-2pm
Walk-ins are not accepted. Attendance for this workshop will be limited.
Create a Way Finders account at www.wayfinders.org/login to register.
Cost of the workshop is $50 per household, nonrefundable.

Baystate Children's Hospital Golf Tournament
2024-06-10 09:00 - 17:00 | MA
Play a round of golf “fore” a great cause!
Help us make the 32nd annual Baystate Children’s Hospital Golf Tournament the biggest and best we’ve had yet! Your round will make a difference in the lives of the youngest patients at Baystate Children’s Hospital.
Register
These differences come in many shapes and sizes. You are helping advance research in pediatric health, purchase kid-sized equipment, and create friendlier experiences for the children who pass through Baystate Children’s Hospital each day.
Date: Monday, June 10, 2024
Locations:

Longmeadow Country Club, Longmeadow, MA – Registration: 9 am; Tee Time: 10:30 am (Get directions)
Twin Hills Country Club, Longmeadow, MA – Registration: 9 am; Tee Time: 10:30 am (Get directions)
Country Club of Wilbraham, Wilbraham, MA – Registration: 9 am; Tee Time: 10:30 am (Get directions)

Healthy Eating for Successful Aging
2024-06-11 10:00 - 12:30 | MA
In Person at Trinity Church, Shelburne Falls, MA, in collaboration with the Shelburne Falls Senior Center
For adults hoping to improve their nutrition in order to lose/gain weight, lower cholesterol, manage blood sugar levels, or live well with any chronic condition. This workshop teaches the “My Plate” guidelines, nutrition basics, label reading, meal planning, goal setting, and problem solving.
Tuesdays, June 11–July 16
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
For more information or to register, contact Andi Waisman, Healthy Living Program Manager, at 413-773-5555 x2297 or 978-544-2259 x2297, or email awaisman@LifePathMA.org.

The Future of Equity
2024-06-12 09:00 - 12:30 | MA
Join us as presenters from the NCCJ (The National Conference for Community and Justice) discuss what they have learned by working with high school students in their teen programs. What lessons that older generations struggled to learn, do they already know? What is their ideal equitable future? And, importantly, what can we do now to prepare to turn the future over to them?

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This session is part of our 2024 Workplace Equity Series.
Session 5: Cohort Plan Creation
Wednesday June 26th
Presenters: Janine Fondon and Lucie Lewis
Session 6: CLOSING PANEL- Where Do We Go From Here?
Wednesday July 3rd
Moderators: Janine Fondon and Lucie Lewis
Thank You to Our Series Sponsors:

Thank you Annual Sponsors:

Housing First Training
2024-06-12 09:00 - 16:00 | MA
The Springfield-Hampden County Continuum of Care is pleased to offer:
Housing First Training
June 12 and 13
9 am – 4 pm each day
Carriage House at the Barney – in Forest Park
200 Trafton Rd., Springfield, MA
Morning refreshments and lunch provided
Register here: https://forms.gle/xUzd6wWwTs5F4GLt9
This training, conducted by trainers from the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is designed to support programs currently or planning to operate housing programs that will serve people exiting homelessness and will operate using a Housing First low-threshold model.
Training participants will gain:

a foundational understanding of housing first concepts;
strategies to build relationships with tenants and property managers;
an outline to guide development of a project-specific tenant guide to give to your program participants;
a Learner’s Guide for trainees to take away that reinforces the information shared and provides additional resources;
and connection to a peer network for support after the training ends.

Topics will also include differentiating between the roles of property management and case management, what Housing First looks like in practice, development of emergency procedures and incident reporting, how to address common challenges (using case studies), and eviction prevention.
The training is appropriate for directors, managers, and program staff. There is no limit to the number of participants from a single agency.

Living Well with Long-Term Health Conditions
2024-06-12 10:00 - 12:30 | MA
Techniques to improve symptoms of chronic conditions such as healthy eating, relaxation techniques, communicating, goal-setting, problem-solving, and more.
Wednesdays, June 12–July 24
10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
For more information or to register, contact Andi Waisman, Healthy Living Program Manager, at 413-773-5555 x2297 or 978-544-2259 x2297, or email awaisman@LifePathMA.org.

A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls
2024-06-12 13:00 - 15:00 | MA
Teaches practical strategies to reduce the fear of falling, and explores medical, behavioral and environmental risk factors for falls, while stressing the importance of developing an exercise plan.

In Person at Erving Senior Center, Erving, MA
Mondays, June 12–July 29
1–3 p.m.

UCLA Memory Training
2024-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 | MA
UCLA Memory Training
Live Video Conference
For people with mild age-related memory challenges, Memory Training teaches memory-enhancing techniques and practical strategies to boost memory functioning.
Wednesdays, June 12–July 24
3–5 p.m.

Voices in Food Equity
2024-06-12 17:00 - 19:30 | MA

Amherst Survival Center Annual Meeting
2024-06-12 17:30 - 19:00 | MA

Clases para Compradores de Casa por Primera Vez de Way Finders
2024-06-13 17:30 - 20:30 | MA
1780 Main Street, Springfield MA 01103

5:30 pm

$50
Esta es una clase completa dividida en dos días:
13, 20 y 17 de junio.Horario: 5:30 pm a 8:30 pm
La clase cubre todos los aspectos de la compra de una casa. Diseñado específicamente para compradores de vivienda por primera vez, la clase está certificada por CHAPA, HUD y MassHousing. Se requiere completar la clase para calificar para ciertos productos de asistencia financiera de la ciudad y algunos préstamos hipotecarios.
¡Regístrese y cree su perfil de comprador de vivienda en free Way Finders hoy!
Debe crear una cuenta de Way Finders en www.wayfinders.org/login antes de poder registrarse.
El precio es $50.
