Episode 3 - **This podcast was recorded prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At least one in five teen-agers will get a sexually explicit photo this year — most of those images sent to them via texts, emails and smart phone applications. Many of those images will come from people they know, but some will be from people they meet online through social networking applications that make it easy for users to share photos and videos.

August 7th   10:00-11:30pm 

90-minute Zoom Meeting; $25 p/participant 

Zoom login details will be emailed to participants after they register.

This training is designed as a resource for supervisors, managers and administration to explore tools re staying connected with employees and teams when working remotely or while maintaining safe social distancing in offices as they reopen.  
 

The following concepts will be addressed: 

·         Maintaining connections 

JRI Health will receive nearly $1 million from the federal government to support its work to help Suffolk County youth who are at risk of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS.

The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will grant JRI Health nearly $200,000 a year for five years for the JRI Positive Pathways Project.

Episode 2 - COVID-19 outbreak, racial protests are part of ‘same frame’

Justice Resource Institute President and CEO Andy Pond discusses his organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the nation as part of JRI’s podcast series “Justice In Action.”

Dear Colleagues,

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread throughout New England, Justice Resource Institute faced its greatest challenge: how to deliver care to 10,000 clients, most of them suffering some form of trauma, in three states while protecting those clients as well as JRI’s more than 2,800 employees from the disease.

Read the full article.

JRI joins those who are loudly protesting the institutional violence against people of color, seeking systematic change in response to systematic racism. We believe that the justified anger and grief we feel must be coupled with action:

Join us on Zoom 

Thursday Evening June 25 from 7-8 PM 

to support The Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County

Join us for a "virtual" trail ride!

You choose the time and place to ride (or walk, bike or run!), and submit your mileage to earn a prize! Options for 3, 5, and 10 miles!

Registration is $25. Proceeds support our equine therapy program- give our youth a "leg up" so they can "trot on!"
 

1pm - 2pm

Let's celebrate with a virtual celebration.