1. Vital Village Network
Boston, MA

2. Partner Organizations
Boston Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Child Witness to Violence Project
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston
Orchard Gardens Pilot School

3. The Vital Village Network SCALE Team
Renee Boynton-Jarrett
Founding Director,
Vital Village Network
Kymberly Byrd
Research and Evaluation Coordinator,
Vital Village Network
Josette Williams
Program Manager, Boston Public Schools/Countdown to Kindergarten
Coalition Leader
Local Improvement Advisor
Community Champion

4. Vital Village Network
 Building community capacity to promote healthy social and emotional development in early childhood by mobilizing collective investment from residents, organizations, and institutions.
Integrating a trauma-informed framework for preventing childhood adversity into the context of existing systems and community-based efforts for early childhood health and education.
Health Systems
Early Childhood Education
Community Initiatives & Advocacy Organizations
Legal Advocates

5. What Do We Hope To Achieve?
Network
Vital Village
Build Institutional Capacity
Enhanced Community Resources
Efficicent Cross Sector Synergy
Increase Protective Factors at Family & Community Level
Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect
Improve Child Well-being
Community Engagement
Civic Participation
Enhanced Social Networks
Vital Concept: Cultivate settings that protect children from violence and optimally support their well-being.
Village Vital Signs: Improve the quality of data and tools.
Vital Connections: Support social emotional learning and protective factors.
Village Prosperity: Support geography of opportunity
Theory of Change

6. Top Three Sources of Pride in our Community
Diversity Innovation Civic Participation

7. Areas of Focus for our SCALE Work
Economic empowerment
Peer advocacy
Trauma-informed classrooms
We plan to improve equity by
Engaging residents
Maintaining a commitment to transparent and honest communication

8. We are most proud of our…
Hubs of Innovation
Innovation Pilots
Leadership Summit
90 Day Challenge
38 Collaborative Actions
We are most proud of our…
Innovation Pilots
90-Day Challenge Model 8
co-designed innovations 6
surveys developed
PDSA cycles
redesigned meeting formats 5
collaborative grants 2
resident associations developed 1
peer-to-peer program launched
Building Family Strengths
Clinic
Education
Legal Advocates
Community Advocates
Family Services
Public Health

9. We know a lot about….. We need help with….. Collective learning
Community engagement
Social connectedness
Leadership development
Measurement and evaluation
Sustainability
Scaling up efforts
Quality improvement

10. Favorite Hometown Spot(s)
Haley House
Merengue

11. Celebrity Spokesperson
“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” –Nelson Mandela
Words We Live By….“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” - Mother Teresa
Our Community Theme Song is “One Love” by Bob Marley

12. Best way to contact us: Renee.BoyntonJarrett@bmc.org
@Vital_Village