Message From Co-Chairs

Children and youth across the Commonwealth need our help and support to become caring and productive members of our society. As Co-Chairs of this Special Commission, we welcome your input as we work together with our 36 members to craft recommendations on how best to support the healthy development of children and youth when they are in and out of school. In addition to the Commission meetings about this critical issue, we intend to hold at least nine public hearings across the Commonwealth. We are aware that not everyone will be able to attend and and invite you to use this blog to communicate with us about your issues and concerns. We look forward to your comments.

Posting Rules and Etiquette

We welcome and value your feedback and ask that you do the following in order to post your comments to this blog. 1. To provide your first and last name and the town or city in which you live to help us track the feedback statewide. 2. To label your comments so we can direct your feedback to the right Commission Work Group. The Commission's three Work Groups are: 1) Information and Access; 2) Quality, Workforce and Professional Development and 3) Sustainability. If your comments cut across all three Work Groups, please label that as "Crosscutting Issue". 3. To add constructive and professional comments - rude or profane comments will be deleted. Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

May 8 Public Hearing Announced

We are pleased to announce that the third public hearing for the Massachusetts Special Commission on After School and Out of School Time will be held on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 from 5 PM - 8 PM in Central Massachusetts at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at their Worcester campus.*

The Worcester Campus of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is located at 19 Foster Street in downtown Worcester. The hearing will be held in the DeBenedictis Building Auditorium 1 located on the left hand side once you enter the building right across from the security desk. Plenty of parking exists in the City Square Garage also known as the Worcester Common outlets. Look for a flyer to be forthcoming that you can distribute to your networks publicizing our third hearing.

We hope to announce other hearing dates and locations in May shortly.

If you are planning to attend the May 8 hearing or have any questions regarding the above, please contact, Debra McLaughlin, Consultant to the Commission at dmclaughlin@kunnusta.com or at 617.792.3173.

Thanks again and we look forward to working with you to ensure the success of our third public hearing.

Sincerely,

Senator Thomas McGee
Representative Marie St. Fleur
Co-Chairs

This link provides information on how to get to the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Worcester Campus.

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