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Dietary Workshop
2026-05-28 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)

Community Action Awareness Day
2026-05-28 13:00 - 16:00

20TH ANNUAL Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference
2026-05-28 08:00 - 17:00
Join the 20th annual Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference May 27-28!2 days of workshops + a social hour + plenary speakers + and moreGet your tickets ($100) and learn more: https://fhcrconference.com/New for 2026:– Incredibly low ticket prices ($75 less than last year) thanks to a generous contribution from Massachusetts Fair Housing Center– New location at Holyoke Community CollegeThis conference is live and in person. Lunch and morning refreshments are included with your registration. Join us for the free social hour at the end of Day 1, with refreshments, raffles and more!

Air Watch App Launch
2026-05-27 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for the official launch of Air Watch, our new mobile app that puts real-time, neighborhood-level air quality data at your fingertips. Powered by the Healthy Air Network’s sensors located across Western Massachusetts, Air Watch makes it easy to understand the air you breathe every day.
This app was developed through an extensive, community-driven design and testing process. The app transforms complex air quality data into clear, easy-to-understand information so individuals and families can make informed decisions about their health.
At this virtual event, we’ll unveil the new Air Watch app, recognize the community leaders who helped bring it to life, and walk through how simple it is to download and use. The program will also feature a special video message from Senator Ed Markey, with additional speakers to be announced.
We hope to see you there! And if you can’t join us live, you can still support Air Watch by downloading the app, sharing a review, and spreading the word with one simple message: “I downloaded the Air Watch app—have you?”

Whole Children Summer Registration Open
2026-05-27 08:00 - 17:00
Each class costs $95 for the session with the exception of Cooking Classes, which cost $120 to cover the cost of food. If you register for four or more classes you will receive a 20% discount off the total cost. Discount will show in cart.
Events are free for anyone enrolled in classes. For those not currently taking a class, event admission is $10.
Class sizes are limited; register early to secure a spot in a desired class.
Please note that all age ranges are suggestions only. Please contact us at info@wholechildren.org or (413) 585-8010 if you’re interested in signing up for a class outside of the posted age range.
For Discord, the current link will remain accessible to the general public, regardless of membership status, for sending private messages to friends; and it will be moderated by teachers. View Discord etiquette.
Questions? Please email the front desk or call (413) 585-8010.

Emergency in the Brain: A Look Inside Neurocritical Care
2026-05-21 18:00 - 19:00
Join Benjamin Barnes, MD, for a presentation on neurocritical care—what it is, how it differs from general ICU care, and when it’s used for stroke and other life-threatening neurologic conditions. Learn how our specialized teams use acute stroke interventions to improve long-term outcomes for patients.

In-Service Training - Key Considerations for Estate Planning
2026-05-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Zoom
Come discuss what is needed to create an estate plan! Learn what estate planning is, what happens when someone plans ahead, and what a Will can and cannot do for them. A personalized plan can ensure that your consumers are protected and that their loved ones are cared for and are left feeling secure.
Get these questions answered and more:
Q: How to avoid common missteps with Beneficiary Designations?
Q: How to prepare for the possibility of becoming incapacitated and unable to make financial and medical decisions for oneself?
Q: Should there be a Durable Power of Attorney in place to give someone the authority to manage property in the event of becoming incapacitated?
Q: How can someone ensure that a surviving spouse won’t disinherit their children accidently or on purpose?
Q: What is probate? Why do people want to avoid it, and how can it be avoided?
Q: What’s the difference between a Will and a Trust?
Q: What is a Healthcare Power of Attorney and why is it considered critical to have one?
Q: What happens to property if someone dies without even a Will?
Q: How should families with a person with special needs plan differently?
Presented by: Kimberly A. Pisinski, Attorney
Register here: https://lifepathma-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/ODtAQMWWSj-EzLdA_tiSKQ#/registration

24th Annual Mental Health & Wellness Fair
2026-05-20 10:00 - 14:00

Credit Success Workshop
2026-05-19 09:00 - 12:00
Whether you want to buy a house or a car, pay off your student loan debt, or understand how to build your credit, Way Finders is here to help.
Our Credit Success Workshop provides the tools you need to reach your financial goals. Learn directly from a Way Finders’ certified counselor through interactive and engaging activities. After you complete your workshop, you will have the opportunity to meet with a HUD-certified housing counselor to discuss your individual goals.
There is a $10 fee to reserve your seat for the workshop. This fee will be refunded upon workshop completion.

18 Under 18 Awards
2026-05-18 17:00 - 20:00
The Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts 18 Under 18 Awards, presented by Teddy Bear Pools and Spas, provide an opportunity to recognize outstanding young people who exemplify an innovative spirit, leadership, and community involvement.
The celebration recognized the many contributions and accomplishments of our awardees at a special awards dinner.

Dialogues Across Differences
2026-05-18 10:00 - 14:00
Dialogues Across Differences is a three-day training series preparing individuals, communities, organizations, and coalitions that are enhancing their skills in facilitating conversations across profound differences of experience, social location, and understanding. How do we talk about race? gender? equity? Learn the skills necessary to facilitate dialogue through an approach that will strengthen the abilities you already have. Drawing on current research, ancient global wisdom teachings, Popular Education, Dialogue Education and theories of adult learning, we will practice shaping dialogue and engaging in productive conversations across differences in a way that strengthens us all.

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Learning-based Objectives
• Engage adults in a process of learning and social change that employs a set of Popular Education principles that are respectful, empowering, and accountable.
• Work with content about intersectional oppression, anticipating tensions to address common and predictable misconceptions, values, and conflicts in our communities and culture.
• Find restorative resources for oneself.
• Learn when to apply this learning and when best to hold back.
• Identify powerful facilitative questions and creating opportunities to practice skills and receive feedback in a respectful, challenging, and energetic forum.
CEUs Available
This program has been approved for 10.5 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. NASW-MA Chapter CE Approving Program, Authorization Number D10624-1.

17th Annual Jordan's Furniture Walk/Run for Adoption!
2026-05-17 10:00 - 13:00
At MARE, we know that all children deserve a safe, loving place to call home. However, the reality is that in Massachusetts, there are currently 1,400 children and teens in foster care awaiting adoption who have no relatives or other potential adopters.
That’s why we’re hosting our 17th Annual Jordan’s Furniture Walk/Run for Adoption! This main event includes festivities, food, games, balloons, and family-friendly fun! Walkers and runners are invited to complete a 5k fun-run, consisting of three loops around the course. All the funds raised from this event go towards helping children and teens in foster care find adoptive homes!

Freedom to Be Ourselves: Transhealth's Annual Benefit
2026-05-16 19:30 - 21:00
Join us for Transhealth’s Freedom to Be Ourselves Annual Benefit on Saturday, May 16th at 7:30pm at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA. Celebrate Transhealth’s 5th birthday and support our mission of protecting and expanding access to gender-affirming care with an unforgettable evening that will illuminate the power of hope, the warmth of joy, and the courage required to live authentically.
There will be a powerful keynote, Transhealth’s first ever Community Impact Awards will be given to four amazing trans leaders from each of the four counties in Western Massachusetts, and the evening will end with a conversation with Mercury Stardust (she/they).
We’ll ask Mercury about her experience being invited into people’s homes and hearts as “The Trans Handy Ma’am” and as an educator, author, performance artist, fundraiser and advocate for trans rights and healthcare. We’ll talk with them about where she finds joy in difficult times, how she uses creativity and craft as tools for health and wellness, why showing up for our communities is so important, and—as someone with an influential platform—what her advice is to anyone wanting to use their own voice to make a difference in the world.
Get your tickets NOW! With your support, we have given away all 100 FREE tickets to our patients and to those who belong to the trans and gender-diverse community— there are no more free tickets available. Please purchase a ticket to attend! All are welcome, including kids.

Springfield Symphony Chorus Music in The Time of Jeanne
2026-05-16 16:00 - 18:00

First-time Homebuyer Workshop
2026-05-16 09:00 - 14:00
Become a certified first-time homebuyer with Way Finders! Learn from local real estate professionals about the homebuying process.
The course covers finding, financing, purchasing, and maintaining a home. Participants receive a certificate of completion that is necessary to access several down payment assistance programs and special mortgage products.
This is a two-part IN PERSON workshop:
Saturdays, 9am-2pm
Mary 16 and 23
Cost of the workshop is $75 per household, nonrefundable.

Comedy Night
2026-05-15 18:00 - 21:30 | AMVETS Post 12, 754 Montgomery St, Chicopee, MA, 01013, United States
Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity will host a Comedy Night in honor of Military Appreciation Month on Friday, May 15 from 6–9:30 PM at AMVETS Post, 754 Montgomery St, Chicopee. Enjoy performances by Steve Nagel (Rock 102 FM) and Marty Caproni while supporting Veteran Home Preservation projects. Tickets are $25; doors open at 6 PM and the show begins at 7 PM. Sponsorships are available. Learn more at habitatspringfield.org/comedy

20TH ANNUAL Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference ticket deadline
2026-05-15 08:00 - 17:00

Broadening the Lens
2026-05-13 11:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Our training and consultation series prepares individuals, communities, and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times. This is our three-hour training for public health integration of racial and health equity.
Learning-based Objectives
By the end of our time together, we will have:
• Examined a lens for understanding how the tensions within the historical foundings of our country impact us and our public health.
• Examined the application of key racial and health equity concepts and vocabulary to public health in MA.
• Reflected and shared how a solutions focused approach like targeted universalism has impacted public health in our lifetime.
Please note: If you work for Public Health in Massachusetts, your attendance is covered by the Office of Local and Regional Health. You still need to register though, and you can do that by emailing Amparo Cruz acruz@growinganewheart.org.

Wisdom Circle For All
2026-05-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Online via Zoom
How do you live in your Field of Peace during turbulent times? Wisdom Circle for All
Our training and consultation series prepares individuals, communities, and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times. Come join our Wisdom Circle to cultivate a stronger sense of peace, possibility, healing and connection. You are invited to share space as we seek to meet one another in a field of peace and honesty.
What to expect
• Our circle keepers will share a brief insight through story, poem, or short video.
• Then, you will be given a reflection question.
• We will take turns listening deeply to one another.
Who is this for?
If you feel like this sounds nourishing to your soul, this is for you. Wisdom Circle For All requires registration for each monthly session.
How to participate
• It takes some practice and trust to get used to a circle. Most of the time, you will be listening to others.
• We encourage you to notice how you are moved and changed by sitting with others’ truths.
• When it is your turn, ask yourself: “Of all the many things I could say, what is coming to the front?”
–Remind yourself you do not need to say it all at one time.
–If you keep returning, we will come to know one another better.
–It is good practice to share time.

Immigration Protections and DEI Barriers
2026-05-12 10:00 - 11:30

Designer Bag Bingo
2026-05-09 12:00 - 16:00

Walk/Run for Adoption
2026-05-09 09:00 - 11:30 | new, 283 Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA, 01604, United States
Join us in Worcester for a day of community, connection, and fun—all in support of adoption from foster care. Whether you’re running for a personal best or walking with family and friends, your participation brings hope to waiting children.
Our Worcester Walk/Run event includes festivities, games, crafts, refreshments, and family-friendly fun! Walkers and runners are invited to complete a 5k fun-run, consisting of three loops around the course. All the funds raised from this event go towards helping children and teens in foster care find adoptive homes!

Community Action Annual Meeting and Breakfast
2026-05-07 08:00 - 09:30
You are warmly invited to join Community Action for their Annual Meeting and Breakfast on May 7th! This gathering is a wonderful opportunity to come together and celebrate the vital progress CAPV has made over the past year in supporting our neighbors through essential services like Head Start, home energy assistance, and food security. It will be a morning filled with reflection, community spirit, and a shared look at the impactful work being done here in our local area. We hope you can join in the event as CAPV honors all of the year’s collective achievements and looks forward to the future of their mission.

Domestic Violence Support Group
2026-05-05 13:00 - 14:00

Dementia Journey
2026-05-04 10:30 - 12:30

Savvy Caregiver
2026-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
Savvy Caregiver® is a class for family and friends caring for someone living with memory loss or Alzheimer’s disease.
For most family caregivers, caregiving is a new role and one for which training is needed-just as you would receive training for any new job. The Savvy Caregiver® Program helps caregivers better understand the changes their loved ones are experiencing, and how to best provide individualized care for them throughout the progression of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Participants will learn how to feel better about their caregiver role and how to care for themselves. The Savvy Caregiver® Program was developed by experts in caregiving techniques and goes beyond introductory educational offerings to provide clinical-level training for family caregivers.

Spring 2026: Mondays fromMay 4-June 15, 10 am-12 pm In-person at Holyoke Senior Center

Unity House Players present, The Prom
2026-05-03 14:00 - 16:00

Derby Party
2026-05-02 17:00 - 20:00

Elevating Together: A Celebration of Youth, Legacy & Leadership
2026-04-30 17:30 - 20:30
For more than a century, the Urban League of Springfield has expanded opportunity, strengthened families, and invested in the future of our community. This year, we invite you to join us for an inspiring evening that celebrates that legacy and the leaders helping to shape what comes next.
Elevating Together: A Celebration of Youth, Legacy & Leadership will bring together civic leaders, corporate partners, and community champions for a powerful evening of recognition, music, and community impact.
Throughout the evening we will honor outstanding leaders whose work continues to uplift and empower our community while supporting the programs that serve youth, families, and seniors across Springfield.

AI in Education
2026-04-30 17:00 - 18:30
