National Child Abuse Prevention Month recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect. Through this collaboration, prevention services and supports help protect children and produce thriving families. Learn how you can help in the Prevention Resource Guide.
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Greetings friends, Women have always been at the forefront of social change movements, lending their voices and giving their time and money to address social and humanitarian needs. We all know of Clara Barton and the founding of the Red Cross in 1881, or Mary McLeod Bethune, the educator and philanthropist who founded Bethune-Cookman College.
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Throughout history, women have been tenacious in the struggle for equity in society, at home, and in the executive suite. Wherever injustice existed, you can bet that women were on the case to create change from the ground up, and it may not have happened quietly. Since March of 1987, we have celebrated and honored
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The Tutwiler Community Education Center envisions a community working together that will enrich the lives of children and families. This vision and rich history will pull you into TCEC. For 34 years, the Tutwiler Community Education Center has been strengthening and enriching the lives of children and families by developing programs to address the needs
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The mission of Women’s Foundation of Mississippi is economic security for women, where we say: “When Women Thrive, Mississippi Thrives.” The organization started as a fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson in 1999 with the support and leadership of a dedicated group of women – joining other Women’s Foundations across the country and
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Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable is an intergenerational, nonpartisan organization committed to increasing voter participation and education through civic engagement, advancing economic security for black women and girls, and developing transformational leadership. MS BWR has four programs of work that include MS Women’s Economic Security Initiative (MWESI), a progressive policy agenda (that consists of equal pay,
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The Greek mathematician Archimedes wrote, “Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the earth.” At the Refill Jackson Initiative (RJI), we strive to provide the place and the lever for Jackson’s youth so that they can move the earth. Our “place” is an eight-week workforce development program
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Women’s History – A Sense of Place (ms.gov) 2022 Theme – National Women’s History Alliance (nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org) Women’s History Timeline Women’s History Month Activities at USM National Women’s History Online Exhibits 50th Anniversary of Title lX Library of Congress Women’s History Month Exhibits and Programs
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Greetings friends, The second week of February was initially chosen to celebrate Black History each year because it coincides with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, President Gerald Ford extended the week to a month-long celebration. Although the contributions from African Americans to our country’s history should be continuously noted, February
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The year was 1966, and Mississippi was in the midst of great struggles and change. It was the year that civil rights activist and entrepreneur Vernon Dahmer was murdered by klansmen who firebombed his store and residence in Hattiesburg. The Candlestick Park tornado hit Hinds, Rankin, Scott, Leake, Neshoba, Kemper, and Noxubee counties, killing 50
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