It Takes A Village- A Community Baby Shower In Southeast Queens

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Moms Who Care Inc. will host a community baby shower at The Garden Of Resilience on July 31, 2021 from 11 AM-2PM. Moms Who Care Inc.is dedicated to promoting literacy, mental wellness, environmental preservation and uplifting community. The founding members of Moms Who Care grew up in Southeast Queens. Mom Who Care have organized community partners to provide a wonderful event . The community baby shower will provide diapers, hygiene products and much more. The event will also provide informational workshops for expectant parents. In addition, The Garden Of Resilience will provide vegetables from their harvest for participants as well as a seed giveaway courtesy of National Grid. Queens Botanical Garden will provide a compost giveaway encouraging health. Mom’s Who Care is grateful to have the support of the following partners:

SEQ Clean Up

Sisters With Loving Souls

Sydney’s Sweets

Public Health Solutions

Queens Health Start Initiative

Queens Botanical Gardens

National Grid

Supporting Our Mother’s Initiative

Flying 3 Sixty

Events and Balloons by Tan

The Black Resource Network

DIVAS for Social Justice

Expectant parents can sign up for the baby shower here.

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Clarisa James
Clarisa James is the Co-Founder/Executive Director of DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice. For the past seven years DIVAS has provided free or sliding scale technology training to youth in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn and Southeast Queens. Ms. James has been dedicated to youth development work for the past 15years in the roles of Teaching Artist, After School Director, Curriculum Specialist and artist. Her life's work encompasses empowering youth in underserved communities to use technology for social change and think critically about the issues that are affecting them most. For the past seven years Ms. James has facilitated workshops that help youth develop multimedia projects around environmental justice, housing, leadership development and reproductive justice. Ms. James holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College's Film & Media Department. In addition to DIVAS for Social Justice, Ms. James currently serves on the advisory board of the Children’s Cabinet, Office of the Deputy Mayor Strategic Policy Initiatives at City Hall. Clarisa James is full of gratitude to her parents for providing such a wonderful upbringing and having the foresight to move into the community of Laurelton in the early 1970's. Clarisa is proud to be a daughter of Laurelton.