Mother's for Justice and Equality National Conference 2022

Mother's for Justice and Equality (MJE) was founded in 2010 by mothers who lost children to violence. The founding mothers joined forces using their voices to share their stories and our of their vision to fight against violence, MJE was formed. We empower women through our educational in leadership programs such as:

• You Matter: Personal Leadership Training’ the core of MJE’s educational programming
• The Youth Peer Leadership program
• Workforce Readiness Initiative
• Financial Literacy curriculum initiative for inmates at the Suffolk County House of Corrections addressing the needs of young adult inmates coming back into the community.
• Community Trauma training for new Boston Police Cadets and Boston EMTs to prepare them when facing individuals dealing with trauma.

Our work:

One Million Hurting Souls to the Polls – MJE is conducting a voter engagement drive and to date over 600 individuals have registered to vote with our support. Phone bank activities will begin in mid-October and run through the November election.

MJE was recently selected to form a Parent/Police Partnership advisory group with the Boston Police Commissioner. The goal of this group is to improve community policing by addressing issues of families and engaging the police in community meetings.

MJE recently became a Department of Transitional Assistance Work Service Site. As such we are supporting chronically unemployed mothers with workforce training.

MJE hosted A Conversation with Women of Color Leading Change in Boston in April 2016, with City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, Rep. Gloria Fox, Monalisa Smith MJE CEO, Senator Linda Dorcena Forry and Mia Alvaro, MJE Board Chair. This event was profiled in the Dorchester Reporter: http://tinyurl.com/jqwdw63

MJE is an approved provider for the Boston Public Schools. This includes Parent Engagement Training and offering our Youth Peer Leadership programs to students at various BPS sites.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Boston University John and Kathryn Silber Administrative Center (SIL), 1 Silber Way, Boston, United States