How Can We Build Together? Parent Partnerships towards Collective Community Care

In episode two, we continue our conversation with Josette Williams, long-time Vital Village Networks leader and Director of Boston Public Schools’ Countdown to Kindergarten. We delve deeper into what shared power and agency looks like in practice through building parent partnerships at Boston Public Schools and the city’s Office of Early Childhood. We learn about critical strategies to engage parents in processes to develop city priorities and embed restorative justice practices within family-facing systems and institutions. Josette highlights the important roles that we all play in the movement to transform systems and build collective community care, reminding us of our shared “responsibility…to work together and support one another” to change the decision making tables that impact how communities grow and thrive. 

Featured guest:

• Josette Williams, Director, Countdown to Kindergarten, Boston Public Schools

Host: Ronda Alexander, Director of National Partnerships, NOW at Vital Village Networks

Produced by: Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing

Music: Want U W/ Me (Instrumental Mix), by Akira Sora, From the Free Music Archive, CC BY 4.0

Edited By: Resonate Recordings