The Children’s Trust, Massachusetts’ leading family support organization, this evening honored Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh at their “Evening of Promise” gala held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

The Children's Trust placed 30th in the Commonwealth Institute and Boston Globe Magazine's annual Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts. Executive Director Suzin Bartley was honored at an award breakfast on October 23rd.

Suzin Bartley, Executive Director of the Children's Trust, was on Radio Boston to discuss Governor Charlie Baker's announcement of changes at the Department of Children and Families.

This Father’s Day, the Children’s Trust called on friends and supporters to shake up the all-too-common stereotypes of fathers as incompetent, emotionally unavailable knuckleheads by sharing images of themselves challenging negative dad stereotypes on social media with the hashtag #TurnDadStereotypesUpsideDown.

Tufts University has released results from a rigorous evaluation of Healthy Families Massachusetts that shows the program is significantly benefiting the young parents and children it serves – and setting parents and families up to succeed. Highlights of the evaluation confirm that Healthy Families Massachusetts is significantly: • Lowering parents’ risky behaviors, which likely reduces children’s exposure to traumatic events • Reducing participants’ parenting stress, a risk factor for child abuse and neglect • Increasing educational achievement for young mothers, paving the way toward self-sufficiency.