Join us in Worcester for a day of community, connection, and fun—all in support of adoption from foster care. Whether you’re running for a personal best or walking with family and friends, your participation brings hope to waiting children.

Our Worcester Walk/Run event includes festivities, games, crafts, refreshments, and family-friendly fun! Walkers and runners are invited to complete a 5k fun-run, consisting of three loops around the course. All the funds raised from this event go towards helping children and teens in foster care find adoptive homes!

Our training and consultation series prepares individuals, communities, and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times. This is our three-hour training for public health integration of racial and health equity.

Learning-based Objectives
By the end of our time together, we will have:
• Examined a lens for understanding how the tensions within the historical foundings of our country impact us and our public health.
• Examined the application of key racial and health equity concepts and vocabulary to public health in MA.
• Reflected and shared how a solutions focused approach like targeted universalism has impacted public health in our lifetime.

Please note: If you work for Public Health in Massachusetts, your attendance is covered by the Office of Local and Regional Health. You still need to register though, and you can do that by emailing Amparo Cruz acruz@growinganewheart.org.

How do you live in your Field of Peace during turbulent times? Wisdom Circle for All
Our training and consultation series prepares individuals, communities, and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times. Come join our Wisdom Circle to cultivate a stronger sense of peace, possibility, healing and connection. You are invited to share space as we seek to meet one another in a field of peace and honesty.

What to expect
• Our circle keepers will share a brief insight through story, poem, or short video.
• Then, you will be given a reflection question.
• We will take turns listening deeply to one another.

Who is this for?
If you feel like this sounds nourishing to your soul, this is for you. Wisdom Circle For All requires registration for each monthly session.

How to participate
• It takes some practice and trust to get used to a circle. Most of the time, you will be listening to others.
• We encourage you to notice how you are moved and changed by sitting with others’ truths.
• When it is your turn, ask yourself: “Of all the many things I could say, what is coming to the front?”
–Remind yourself you do not need to say it all at one time.
–If you keep returning, we will come to know one another better.
–It is good practice to share time.

Join us on July 13, 14, and 17, 10:30am-2:30pm Eastern Time

Compassionate Accountable Conversations is a three-day training series preparing individuals, communities, organizations, and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times. Sometimes we engage with people who are exhibiting habits of dominance within their interpersonal conflict. We may also notice these habits within our own interventions. When this happens, we need to be prepared to hold Compassionate Accountable Conversations that help interrupt dominance patterns and safely create the conditions where change becomes possible.