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Family Independence Initiative (FII) Presentation

Location

Mayor's Parlor, City Hall

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Contact

Wil Durbin
wdurbin@cambridgema.gov

Description

The Mayor’s Office will be hosting the Family Independence Initiative (FII) of Greater Boston on Friday, November 1st at 9:00 a.m. in the Mayor’s Parlor. 

Jessica Taubner, the Greater Boston Site Director​, will be presenting on the Trust and Invest Collaborative — an innovative partnership between FII, the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA), the City of Boston, and Boston and Cambridge families — to transform social service delivery systems across the state and country.

This event will be open to City employees, members of the press, and the public.  Th​e​ ​Trust and Invest Collaborative​ is a 3-year, multimillion-dollar project that aims to learn directly from families living with low-incomes about what solutions to ending poverty work best for their lives. Different than other social programs that limit what low-income families can, and cannot, spend their money on, FII invests directly in families’ initiatives, accelerating their self-determined paths to economic mobility.  

For the last 19 years, FII has created an environment where ​families create their own accountability system. Working in cohorts, they set their own goals and trust their peers to support them on their journey. Rather than providing social workers, services, or direction, we create an environment where families come together, empower themselves, and are trusted to improve their lives, in their own way. As they take initiative, families get more, not less, access to resources that can accelerate their efforts.

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