Codman Square

The Healthworks Community Fitness Advisory Board is seeking to fill a small number of board member vacancies! Healthworks Community Fitness is searching for individuals who are invested in the health and well-being of women and children in underserved neighborhoods.

Healthworks Community Fitness is an innovative non-profit that provides high-quality fitness programming and health support in low-income, urban neighborhoods at low or no cost to beneficiaries. To date, Healthworks has served over 8,000 women and children at their two Dorchester centers!

Specifically, Healthworks is looking for individuals with experience in:

• Community outreach
• Event planning
• Fundraising and development
• Grant writing
• Public relations
• Social media

Learn more about the organization at http://www.healthworkscommunityfitness.org.

If you are interested in joining the Advisory Board, please send a completed application and resume, or any questions you may have, to Sara Chang by Sunday, December 11. A copy of the application is attached to this post.

Are you the caregiver for a child with family needs? Do you want to share your experience to help other parents and caregivers? Perhaps you would like to become a Family Partner. Family Partners are trained to help other families with special needs. CBHI (Children's Behavioral Health Initiative) will be holding presentations at the Codman Square Library on December 1st from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. and December 2nd from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Codman Square Library is located at 690 Washington Street in Dorchester. These presentations will also include a job fair - representatives from organizations who recruit family partners will be at the event! For more information, please contact Margot Tracy at 617.573.1832. See flyer below with more information.

Fun, healthy & free! Summer Youth Fitness Classes at Healthworks at Codman (450 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02124; 617-825-2800) for children ages 5 to 12! The classes include:

• GoGo Yoga: Mondays, 5 to 6 p.m.
• Physi-Kids Fitness Fusion: (open to all kids in the 95th percentile for BMI and higher): Tuesdays, 5 to 6 p.m.
• Summer Kids Fitness Class: Wednesdays, 5 to 6 p.m.
• Physi-Kids Fitness Fusion: (open to all kids in the 95th percentile for BMI and higher): Thursdays, 5 to 6 p.m.
• Temple of Martial Arts KARATE for Kids: M-Th 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Karate CAMP will also be offered in the mornings! For information call Tony at 508.997.1519.

An advanced professional is sought to plan and coordinate the Millennium Ten Initiative, a multi-faceted comprehensive community planning and resident economic mobility initiative started by grassroots organizations, residents, civic groups and nonprofits in the Codman Square and Four Corners communities. Coordinator is responsible for managing both aspects and will assist the Executive-level Steering Committee meet goals.

Job duties: With community partners, craft necessary processes; determine, set and meet measurable performance goals for all aspects of the work. Keep the momentum going to achieve performance outcomes. Facilitate communication and meetings, develop meeting agenda and meeting notes, document the overall process, support resource identification and allocation, and publicizing the Initiative and generally cheerleading it to success.

Qualifications: Masters degree in urban affairs, planning, or related degree with at least 3-7 years senior level experience in community planning, program development or related field. Proven group facilitation skills a must. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with sound knowledge of Microsoft Office software. Experience in setting and implementing performance based goals, managing and facilitating group processes and undertaking research and analysis important. Proven ability to manage complex, multi-faceted community planning processes and sensitive group dynamics a must. Experience in directly managing senior staff. Experience in working in low income, diverse community settings also important. Bilingual in Spanish or Haitian Creole a plus.

Send resumes by May 31, 2011 to Executive Director, Codman Square NDC, 587 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02124.

More on Millenium Ten:

The Millennium Ten Initiative is a collective effort of grassroots organizations, residents, civic groups and nonprofits in the Codman Square and Four Corners communities. The goal of Millennium Ten is to uplift and showcase the community as a place of promise/opportunity and to further the upward trajectory that this community and its' residents have been on over the past few decades. The Millennium Ten Initiative has two interrelated components: (a) development of a comprehensive Community Plan that is a living document that speaks from residents and stakeholders viewpoints, to the key issues facing this community and sets forth the communities' vision and recommendations to address those issues and creates a roadmap and path for the development of the community into the next decade. Part of the planning process involves the conceptualization and implementation of a major social or cultural event that will bring positive internal and external attention to this community; (b) the asset development component of Millennium Ten seeks to directly impact resident economic mobility. Over the next year, up to 100 residents will develop their own 3-5 year "Family" Plans, designed to address key issues for themselves and their families and to move them up the economic ladder. These residents will be supported by the Millennium Ten stakeholders in realizing their Family Plans. They will also be involved in developing the overall comprehensive Community Plan. Ultimately the goal of the Millennium Ten Initiative is to put and keep this community on the map, in a positive spotlight, and to affirmatively impact the economic well being of those who live here. We expect this work to lead to increases in the resources needed to further the community's growth, more stable and economically viable individuals and families and more engaged residents involved in stewarding their and the communities' future growth.

The Millennium Ten is led by a 9 member Steering Committee that will, working with the Coordinator: continue to craft the overall process leading to the desired outcomes; engage directly in work to develop the Comprehensive Community Plan; recruit and engage families in all aspects of Millennium Ten; provide direct services and supports to individuals and families to achieve their plans; hold each other accountable to meet all goals and outcomes; and develop the resources to achieve desired outcomes. It is envisioned that the Coordinator will be supported by a small subset of the Steering Committee and the Codman Square NDC Executive Director.

This is advanced professional coordinating planning position involving complex, multi-faceted professional planning activities. The Coordinator is responsible for managing all aspects of the Millennium Ten Initiative and will assist the Steering Committee in meeting all the goals and outcomes of the Initiative. The Coordinator will help craft necessary processes, help determine and set measurable performance goals for all aspects of the work, keep the momentum going to achieve concrete performance outcomes, hire and support/supervise any staff/consultants to assist with the Family Plan or other components, facilitate communication and meetings (both individual and group meetings), schedule meetings, develop meeting agenda and meeting notes/minutes, document the overall process, insure that deliverables and timetables for each component of the Initiative are identified/set and met, support resource identification and allocation, support publicizing the Millennium Ten Initiative and generally cheerlead the Initiative to success.