A Positive Response to the Boston bombings: Run for Community Resilience to Show Support & Help Our Kids Envision a Positive Future
With the suspect now in custody, it is time to focus on healing and positive action, especially for our children and young people.
As we have watched the trauma unfold in Boston, we all are probably asking ourselves:
- 1. How can I help create a positive response to such pain and loss?
- 2. Is there anything I can do to help prevent trauma in my community?
Transition Amherst invites you to join neighbors in a community event to express caring for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, and to take positive community action. Below and attached is an invitation to participate in a “Run for Community Resilience”. Transition Amherst is collaborating with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County to create a community expression of support — a positive, kid-friendly, time of good fun and helping strengthen young people in this difficult time – by walking, running, and hanging out together at the April 28 Daffodil Fun Run.
Many of us want to honor those killed and injured by violence. We want to be a part of healing action for a strong, positive, caring community. Big Brothers Big Sisters has graciously agreed to allow their annual Daffodil Fun Run to be a place for the community to gather to show support for those traumatized, and to reaffirm how important it is that we know each other as neighbors, support youth in our community, welcome new people, and act to build local peace and safety every day.
Register for the event at: www.DaffodilFunRun.com. You’ll be asked to make a donation as you register.
Please invite your friends and neighbors to join in the “Run/Roll/Walk for Community Resilience” — to come together to support a great local organization — Big Brothers Big Sisters, and to show our commitment to being a caring community in the face of violence. Rep. Ellen Story, will be speaking at the event and will encourage the ideas of community resilience and taking positive action together to strengthen our community, create safe streets, and support victims of violence and our youth, nurturing caring and compassion, as we move beyond fear and pain.
And if you can spend a few minutes helping to give out information about the “Run for Resilience” at the Amherst Sustainability Fair on Saturday, April 27, please come join us at the table for Transition Amherst and the “All Things Local” Store (www.allthingslocalstore.com)!
For a list of Runs in the U.S., go to: www.RunReg.com
For information about Resilient Communities or Transition Amherst, see: www.TransitionNetwork.org, or contact Tina Clarke, 413-658-8165.
