Last week, the Community Organizing and Advocacy team at CAAS partnered with City Life / Vida Urbana to host the Save Our Neighborhoods: Organize Against Displacement Panel and Workshop.
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This is CAAS Staff Profile #2, featuring Sydney! Sydney is a Health Specialist with the Head Start Program here at CAAS, and has been making sure our students and teachers have a safe and healthy classroom to come back to this fall!
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CAAS is rolling out a new series of staff profiles to highlight the incredible people on our team that make our work possible! Every person is an integral part of the process that allows us to serve clients and families every day.
The first profile is on Ricky, the Lead Housing Advocate here at CAAS! Ricky has been here since October 1st, 2018 (coincidentally, that’s right at the start of the Housing Advocacy Program cycle!) and has been helping to provide Somerville families with legal assistance, housing searches, and eviction prevention ever since.
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This May, CAAS celebrated the graduation of our first cohort of Leadership Development Institute students!
The Leadership Development Institute (LDI) is a program designed to help individuals develop and build the skills for becoming strong community leaders in Somerville.
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Last week, the Somerville Museum and CAAS came together to host “Reading Frederick Douglass Together” at Bow Market. This annual event bring people together to read Frederick Douglass’ famous address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” delivered to an Anti-Slavery Society in 1852.
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