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Boston Resilience Corps Overview: Youth & Young Adults Year-Round Program

  By    Atyia Martin March 16, 2024 Boston Resilience Corps members are community members who want to help their neighbors with personal and community emergencies. Youth and young adults ages 14 to 24 participate in learning and service projects September through May. Members are committed to continuous knowledge and skill building. We provide regular opportunities for engagement, including our Elder Wellness & Support Program.

Resilience Builder Summer Program Overview: Youth & Young Adults Learn about Disaster & Climate Resilience & Storytelling Through Filmmaking

  By    Atyia Martin March 16, 2024 Pathways to racial justice and resilience are paved with reframing narratives, building knowledge and skills, being in a supportive community, and taking strategic, collective action. So, in the summer of 2020, we partnered with All Aces, Inc, BridgeBuilder Cinematic Arts, TCGT Entertainment, and Encuentro Diaspora. Each year we evolve the program for even more impactful experiences.

Elder Wellness & Support Overview

  By    Atyia Martin March 16, 2024 Boston Resilience Corps members and our team provide food deliveries and other resources to over 100 Black elders in the City of Boston each month. We call to check on them and if they need food that month, we bring them perishable and shelf stable groceries. If they need other resources or case management, we provide that support. We also organize focused in-person wellness checks at senior housing developments with members of the Boston Resilience Corps. In-Person Resilience Checks

Virtual Community Communications Center: Community-Focused Communications Center

  By    Atyia Martin March 16, 2024 The Next Leadership Development Communications Center is a community-focused communications center to reach local and national stakeholders via call and text campaigns, voice broadcasts, and email messaging. The Communications Center supports Next Leadership Development's local programs and national initiatives. Our omnichannel technology system integrates communications channels across voice calls, text messages, emails, and voice broadcast.