We are excited to announce our new BTC Family to Family Real Talk free virtual conversation series, Communities Strengthening Themselves. Through conversations with a range of community members, this free webinar series explores unique visions, wisdom, and resources that are indispensable to addressing challenges children, families, and communities face. By listening to the stories of changemakers in communities, we hope to broaden and deepen our understanding of under-recognized approaches to challenges.
The four-part series begins on Tuesday, September 10 through December 10, 2024. Each webinar is 1 hour followed by a 30-minute Q&A session with our panelists.
This series is part of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s Family-to-Family Real Talk conversation series.
This series is moderated by Laura Benkov, PhD, a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist in private practice who has worked with children, adults, couples, and families for decades in a variety of community mental health, private practice, school, and hospital settings, providing supervision/training, psychotherapy, and psychological/neuropsychological evaluations. She brings to this series her lifelong passion for social justice, activism, and attention to economic inequalities, inspired by her mother whose work as an early childhood educator, innovative program developer, and daycare union activist epitomized these values and illuminated the power of communities strengthening themselves.
Dr. Benkov is the author of one of the first books (and several subsequent articles) on the subject of lesbian and gay parenthood, Reinventing the Family: The Emerging Story of Lesbian and Gay Parents (Crown, 1994). She has been on staff at Boston Children’s Hospital and is formerly the Clinic Director at Think: Kids at Massachusetts General Hospital. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, she worked at Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, focusing on HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ family formation.