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Christie Getto Young
Tue, 02/03/2009

A true coming together for children

Last week I helped organize an event held at the Massachusetts State House entitled, "Health, Housing and Hunger Prevention: the Building Blocks of Childhood Success."  The idea was to have a bunch of organizations that work in these areas band together to educate legislators and raise awareness about the current need around these issues.  In many ways, it was a typical "Legislative Advocacy Day" up on Beacon Hill where we gave out information and materials, had an educational and inspirational speaking program of experts, provided food, and sought to build relationships with legislators  read more »