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Caregiver support program urges Boston council to fund 'We Are Better Together' as violence-prevention resource
Summary
Multiple caregivers and participants in the We Are Better Together program told the March 24 Ways and Means listening session that the caregiver program provides emotional and reentry support and asked the council to amend the budget under violence-prevention to fund it if the mayor does not include funding.
At the public testimony session on March 24, more than a dozen caregivers, program staff and participants described the We Are Better Together caregiver program and urged the Boston City Council Ways and Means Committee to fund it as a violence-prevention and public-health intervention.
"When you fund this program, you are funding healing, prevention, and transformation," said Seraphina, a program participant who…
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