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Utilizing funding through the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Children’s Trust conducted its Family Financial Pilot, which provided cash assistance to parents enrolled in the Children’s Trust’s Healthy Families Massachusetts (MA) program in Springfield.

For 10 years, the Children’s Trust has partnered with the Hampshire County House of Correction, HHOC to implement the Nurturing Fathers program.

When families receive support before they reach crisis, children stay safe and families thrive. Originally published in The Boston Globe, this Letter to the Editor highlights the power of concrete support.

The Children’s Trust is partnering with researchers from Harvard-affiliated programs and the Greater Boston Food Bank on a new study that looks at how promoting healthy eating and reducing food insecurity can improve parent and child health.

Child sexual abuse is preventable. Yet too often, action starts only after abuse occurs. We can change that. By giving schools and youth-serving organizations the tools to recognize early signs of risk and to put safety plans in place, we can stop abuse before it happens.

When families receive support before they reach crisis, children stay safe and families thrive. Originally published in The Boston Globe, this Letter to the Editor highlights the power of concrete support.

Too often, the conversation begins after abuse has occurred, but we can invest time and resources into prevention efforts so that abuse never occurs.

Fathers have a powerful, positive impact on their children’s lives. That’s why, as part of our work to strengthen the systems that support families, we are shifting culture and programs to better engage dads.

Fatherhood in jail is limited to letters, phone calls, and inch-thick plexiglass that bars intimacy. But that plexiglass was shattered, and the concrete mass that is the Hampshire County House of Corrections became a home for a few hours Wednesday night.