Community Teamwork, Inc., is now accepting bids for the acquisition of School Buses. All bids must be submitted by WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 at 4:30pm. Please contact Linda Ardis at 978.654.5659 for exact specifications. ALL BIDS ARE WELCOME.
Community Teamwork, Inc. – 155 Merrimack Street, Lowell MA 01852
Community Teamwork, Lowell Public Schools, and Little Sprouts will be hosting a NEW Preschool program called the Lowell Collaborative Preschool Academy located at 554 Pawtucket Street in Lowell. This preschool program has limited seats available and is open to children living in Lowell that are at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines and have not had an opportunity to attend any preschool program in the past.
The program began in the Fall of 2015.
Who is eligible for this FREE, full-day, full-year program?
If you have a child who is:
If you provide:
Please bring the following documents to the
Lowell Public Schools Family Resource Center
151 Merrimack Street, Downtown Lowell:
For More Information Call:
Lowell Public Schools Community Teamwork Little Sprouts
978-674-4330 978-459-0551 877-977-7688
Lowell Collaborative Flyer Final (Spanish)
Lowell Collaborative Flyer (Khmer)
WE ARE NOW COLLECTING INFORMATION ON OUR CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY FOR 2020.
We are in the process of collecting our Customer Satisfaction Surveys for 2021. If you or a member of your family have received services from Community Teamwork in the past year, please complete the survey and let us know how we’re doing.
We are re-launching the Customer Satisfaction Survey. We have pivoted to a 2 question survey that will only be collected electronically. We’re going to close the survey on 9/11/2020.
Links:
If you have any questions, please contact feedback@commteam.org
Thank you!
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THANK YOUR FOR COMPLETING OUR COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT SURVEY EARLIER THIS YEAR! That survey is now closed.
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Focused on Long-term StabilityCommCET (Community Connections to Employment and Training) is breaking down financial barriers for over 100 disadvantaged families in the Merrimack Valley through an innovative approach that combines job training, education, housing, childcare, case management and follow-up services. This comprehensive strategy ensures greater long-term success for families that were previously homeless or are currently at risk of homelessness.
“Our workforce development efforts combined with permanent housing and essential family supports equip families with tools to maintain long-term stability,” says JoAnn Howell, Community Teamwork’s CommCET Director. “It isn’t about short-term solutions. CommCET helps the client establish a long-term approach by building employment skills; accessing job apprenticeships, training and employment; and preparing for self-sufficiency economically, financially and mentally. Our program’s aim is to successfully create life changing, long-term solutions. I am excited to be part of these changes.”
To date, CommCET has assisted 67 participants to become employed. At the heart of this success are partnerships with the Lowell Career Center, surrounding vocational technical high schools and area employers. Twenty seven out of 33 participants are currently employed after acquiring new workforce skills at various regional vocational technical schools by training for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certifications, medical administration, business, electronics, welding, and office administration.
Profiles of success:
Jocelyn, a single mother, and her two children lived at the Best Western hotel in Chelmsford, when their family first entered the CommCET program. To accommodate her and other homeless families with children temporarily living at the hotel, staff created a transportation route that drives the children to their childcare programs, allowing the parents to pursue employment training and jobs. In Jocelyn’s case, she was able to confidently attend job interviews, knowing her children were safe and being educated in Community Teamwork’s childcare program. This and other critical case management supports led her obtaining full time employment at Lowell’s Woodbriar Nursing Facility.
Tiffany, who successfully attended the Lowell Career Center’s back-to-work program, struggled to find sufficient employment. Fortunately, thanks to her retraining, expansion of marketable skills and dedication, she landed a job with Community Teamwork, working in our Fuel Assistance department.
April 22nd is Earth Day! Below is a list of all sorts of things you can do to make a difference on the planet, in your own lives, and for your loved ones.
Eat local
– Commercially grown produce travels far distances equaling lots of fuel burned and fewer nutrients for you.
– Grow your own produce when possible.
– Shop local farmers markets. Lowell’s will open this summer at the Lucy Larcom Park. See this listing of those in surrounding towns.
Go organic
– Non organic produce is grown using pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, ect. Organic animals do not take antibiotics or growth hormones.
– Remember: non organic produce is always better than no produce! Check out this list of organic foods to try.
Be a chef
– When you cook your own meals and eat at home you are reducing consumption of packaging and plastic cutlery. Try a new recipe.
Try to eat less meat
– Eating more plant based food is good for the environment, healthy for you and cheaper!
– Start by going meatless on Mondays.
Re-useable water bottles
– Oil is required to make bottled water and we barely recycle them leading to clogging of landfills.
– Carry a reusable bottle and refill it.
Enjoy nature
– Pass up the drive thru and plan a picnic, turn off the TV and go for a family hike, skip the coffee date and go for walk together.
Rebecca Foulkes, BS, CLC
Program Nutritionist
Lowell WIC Program
Community Teamwork
rfoulkes@comteam.org
978-654-4931
Join Commnity Teamwork as we Dive into the Emotions of the Ocean!
Come read & explore the book “The Pout Pout Fish” with your child! Together families will grin like a clam, squirm like a jellyfish, count like an octopus a nd shimmer like a bright brilliant fish!
Date: April 10th
Time: 5pm-7pm
Location: 126 Phoenix Ave., Lowell, MA 01852
This event is open to the public.
Light food and refreshments will be served.
March is National Nutrition Month. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics wants you to “Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right” this month by exploring some new foods and flavors that will wake up your taste buds – you have 10,000 of them!
Start with a small goal. When you write your weekly grocery list, make a point to try one new fruit, vegetable, whole grain or protein that week. Or one that you have not tried in years. This could be as simple as trying a new type of apple, eating broccoli raw instead of cooked, or brown rice instead of white rice. As you feel more comfortable trying new foods you can add new spices or flavorings.
You won’t love everything you try and that’s okay. Some foods you may like a little and want to experiment with more or you might find a new food that becomes a regular on your grocery list.
To help you with this new adventure, try these websites for ideas on preparing whole grains and healthy ways to cook fruits and vegetables.
Related Events:
Join WIC on March 8th at the Stoklosa Middle School 11:15-12:30 to learn about shopping on a budget. This event is part of Lowell Womens Week. Please register for this event by contacting Gladys at 978-654-5673 or email gsantiago@commteam.org. Check out the Womens week website for all the other great events happening locally! And regularly check the WIC page this month for more activities.
Invest in Community Teamwork at No Cost to You!…Are you a Globe digital or print subscriber or know others who are? You and they may be able to help us! But we need you to respond on or before March 1.
The Boston Globe launched the Globe Readers and Non-profits Together (GRANT) program early this month by mailing vouchers to all its current print and digital subscribers. This voucher allows a subscriber to designate a certified 501(c) (3) non-profit such as Community Teamwork to receive free advertising throughout the year – a big plus in helping us spread the word about our important work in the community.
If you are a subscriber and want to show your support, all you need to do is:
On the voucher, where it asks for “Name of Certified 501(c) (3),” write in our full name: “Community Teamwork, Inc.”
Where it asks for “501(c) (3) location” write in: “Lowell, MA”.
Send it back to the Boston Globe by March 1, 2014 in the envelope provided.
If you’re a subscriber, but did not receive a voucher, contact the Globe at 617.929.3198 to designate a non-profit or email grant@globe.com.
This is an incredible opportunity for non-profits to publicize the valuable work we are doing in the community, so please consider the Community Teamwork as your non-profit of choice! For more information, visit www.BostonGlobe.com/GRANT.
Thank you for your support! Please share with anyone you think would like to support us, too!
WIC’s 40th anniversary theme is Strengthening Families for 40 Years. In partnerhsip with the National WIC Association, Community Teamwork’s WIC staff are promoting and highlighting WIC’s four pillars of health and nutrtion:
WIC empowers mothers and expectant mothers to be confident caregivers to their children by providing nutrition and health education and free and healthy food . Here are just some of the ways WIC has given back to to families, communities and the country in the past year:
WIC Fast Facts
Benefits to Your Children
For more information, visit our WIC program at how-we-help/family-children/wic/. Also, please visit:
http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/consumer/basic-needs/food/wic/
http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/consumer/basic-needs/food/wic/participants/wic-campaigns.html
The staff of Community Teamwork’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition program have a special message of love for you.
February, the month of love, chocolate, roses, teddy bears, and fancy dinners is upon us. Yes, this is a great distraction from our very busy, hectic lives which we all need sometimes. However, what we need now more than ever is a healthy heart. Eating up all of those caramel and peanut butter filled chococlate hearts will not get you there. February is National Heart Health Month! So you wonder, how can we keep our heart in great shape so that our lives are longer and more fulfilling. There are many ways. So look in to your heart and think about what you eat, how often you exercise, and what you are putting in to your body. Your choices may be doing more damage than you realize.
Be more mindful of the food choices you make. Food can be medicine. Get back to the basics and eat real food- the foods we were meant to eat and digest. Eat less prepackaged and processed foods like frozen meals, hot dogs, deli meats and fast foods, and sugary drinks and snacks. Eat more fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and WHOLE grains.
Exercise regularly. Exercise can lower blood pressure, reduce stress, reduce cancer and diabetes risk, build healthy bones, muscles and joints. All of which can lower your risk for heart disease.
Don’t smoke. Smoking greatly increases your risk, as well as those who ingest your smoke, for heart disease. When you smoke you are inhaling toxic metals, cancer causing chemicals and poisonous gases.
Keep your heart in the best shape you can so that you can give your loved ones many more special Valentines days to come.
