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Our latest news and press coverage.
Andrée Gonzalez of Shrewsbury watched with pride as a video about her experience as a participant in and now employee of the Children’s Trust Healthy Families Massachusetts program aired at the Children’s Trust annual Gala last month. Gonzalez and her partner enrolled Healthy Families Massachusetts when she became pregnant at 19 years old and …
For the past 30 years, Suzin Bartley had overseen the Children’s Trust Fund as executive director, growing it into a multimillion dollar organization that funds over 100 community-based organizations throughout the state. She began her work at the Children’s Trust back in September of 1992. Bartley has received multiple award…
The Children’s Trust, Massachusetts’ child abuse prevention agency, announced at its annual Gala last week that Jennifer Valenzuela has been appointed as its new executive director. Valenzuela has a clinical social work and public health background and over 20 years of experience partnering with children and families. Her local and national wo…
When Norland started the Children’s Trust Healthy Families program, he was just 15 years old. Now at 29, he has built a successful career as a business analyst and a happy, healthy family with his 13-year-old son, fiancé, and one-year-old baby. Norland believes in setting big goals and working hard to achieve them. He says he is naturally goal…
Originally published on IBerkshires.com NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Children’s Trust has announced North Adams resident Bethany Prince-Malloy, Associate Coordinator of the Family Center of Northern Berkshire County, is the recipient of its Faces of Prevention award, which honors and recognizes family support professionals across Massachu…
Former Children’s Trust Healthy Families participant Regina Serverius knows what it’s like to age out of the child welfare system and face the prospects of homelessness. Regina spent her youth bouncing around foster homes and residential placements but when she turned 18, the system no longer supported her, and she was on her own. Luckily,…
The Children’s Trust announced today that Dracut resident Robin Akram, Greater Lowell Healthy Families Program Coordinator, is the first recipient of its new Faces of Prevention award program, which honors and recognizes family support professionals across Massachusetts who go above and beyond to support families and prevent child abuse. …
Originally published in First Time Parent Magazine By Tammy Bernardi, Children’s Trust Prevention Training Coordinator There is nothing more fulfilling than watching your child flourish in a new environment, whether it’s at summer camp or their first swim meet. But with new environments come new risks and we can’t always be t…
Originally published in First Time Parent Magazine By Tammy Bernadi, Children’s Trust Prevention Training Coordinator Did you know that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys will experience sexual abuse before their 18th birthday? National statistics indicated that 85% of these attacks are carried out not by strangers, but by people …