The past six months have been exciting for the Boston Children’s Foundation, as we’ve shared Rainbowdance with communities near and far! Please take a moment to share in the fun:

• Rainbowdance has been taking off in California. Since September, Dicki Johnson Macy and Robert Macy have spent one week a month with the Sonoma Charter School, training staff and working with students. Here is a Rainbowdance session at the school led by Endorsed Rainbowdance Practitioner Nina Saraceno.

• In addition to monthly trainings with the SCS, this January Dicki trained members of the Sonoma California Network in Rainbowdance. Trainees included employees from: Napa State Hospital, Valley of the Moon Foster Program, and Hanna Boys Center. She was assisted by Alicia Brewster, her former Lesley University intern.

• Locally, Rainbowdance trainings have been in full swing. In September, Jen Mueller led her first Basic Rainbowdance training, with co-leader and former intern Ashley Lemmonds, training Head Start staff in Springfield, MA. This December, Jen and BCF employee Rachel Assaf trained Vanessa Perrin in the Advanced Rainbowdance Model. Vanessa is pictured here in Haiti, where she uses Rainbowdance in her work with children.

If you or your organization is interested in being trained in Rainbowdance, contact Dicki Johnson Macy (dickijmacy@gmail.com) or Jen Mueller (jenmueller@bostoncf.org)

In response to so many of you who have inquired about our potential involvement in the Nepal earthquake disasters, Robert and Dicki would like people to know the following:
We have trained a large team of first responders in Nepal who are currently onsite implementing the CBI trauma intervention.

We will not personally be responding as it is our policy to train the local clinicians to care for their own communities following such events.

Thank you all for your concern and support.

Tips to avoid status as “Disaster Tourists” 

For those who are interested in volunteering in Nepal, please:

1) Know who you are reporting to

2) Have a specific job description

Otherwise, in spite of your altruism and desire to help during such international disasters, you will fall under the huge umbrella of “Disaster tourism.”

The pioneering Boston Children’s Foundation has devoted a decade of service to the prevention of violence and trauma in the lives of children, families and communities (www.Bostoncf.org). This year the Boston Children’s Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary and as part of our celebration we are honored to present ERASE-a premier initiative of the Foundation. ERASE will offer unique support and vision to the Foundation as a national activist art initiative.

Tax deductable donations may be made to ERASE by check payable to:
Boston Childrens Foundation- FBO-ERASE.

Any questions may be directed to Dr. Robert D. Macy, Executive Director:
rmacy@bidmc.harvard.edu

Boston Children’s Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization. Gifts are deductible to the full extent allowable under IRS regulations.