BOSTON-- Mayor Thomas P. Menino, corporate leaders from throughout the state, foundation representatives, educational experts, and nonprofit organizations will participate in a "Town Hall Meeting on After School Care" on Thursday, November 21st between 8:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., at Gasson Hall, Boston College. The session will discuss the need for public-private initiatives to expand critical after school programs for the state's young children as a way of helping assure school readiness and helping crime prevention.
The Town Hall meeting is sponsored by Corporate Voices for Working Families (www.cvworkingfamilies.org), a non-partisan corporate membership organization of 32 large corporations, which has been created to inform public and private sector policy that support working families. Corporate Voices members include Abbott Laboratories, Ceridian, CVS, Johnson and Johnson, Marriott International, Pfizer, Texas Instruments, and United Parcel Service.
Participants in the meeting will include representatives of Verizon, Liberty Mutual, Keyspan, Fleet Boston Financial Foundation, Brandeis University, Massachusetts 2020, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and the Massachusetts School-Age Coalition.
The agenda is:
Welcome: Donna Klein, President & CEO, Corporate Voices for Working Families
Opening Remarks: Mayor Thomas M. Menino
Panel 1:
After School in Massachusetts, Moderated by Jennifer Davis, Co-Founder
and President, Massachusetts 2020
-Juanita B. Wade, Executive Director, Boston Centers for Youth & Families, Chief,
Human Services Cabinet, City of Boston
-Ellin Reisnser, Research Director, Community, Families & Work Program, Brandeis
University
-Angeles Baldanza, Board Chair, Massachusetts School-Age Coalition
-State Representative Peter J. Larkin, Chair, Committee on Education, Arts & Humanities
-Q & A
Panel 2:
Corporate Leadership, Moderated by Mary Kay Leonard, United Way of Mass. Bay
-Michele Courton Brown, President, Fleet Boston Financial Foundation
-Andrea Dudley, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Verizon
-Bobbi Kates Garnick, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Keyspan
-Allison Friend, Manager, Human Resources for Group Market, Liberty Mutual
-Q & A
Closing Remarks: Judy Samelson, Executive Director, Afterschool Alliance & Co-Chair, After School Task Force, Corporate Voices for Working Families
The Town Hall meeting is supported by Bright Horizons, one of the nation's largest after school providers, the Boston College Center for Work and Family and the Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation.
