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Thank you for joining us in promoting peace in our community. Click the image above to view highlights from the 2011 summit. To register for the 2012 summit mailing list, click here.
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Southeastern Massachusetts SER-Jobs For Progress, Inc. is an affiliate of SER-Jobs For Progress National, Inc. Throughout the years, SER-Jobs network of organizations has devoted itself to offering employment services, upgrading job skills and increasing business and economic opportunities for minority communities and other disadvantaged people. SER-Jobs in southeastern Massachusetts is a community-based organization that originally began as a school-to-work transition program in 1979, but has since grown to meet the changing needs of its community. Through the years, SER-Jobs has worked with community businesses, city and state agencies to bring dignity and esteem to the southeastern Massachusetts region.









Fall River Rotary Club members, in a joint project with Citizens Union Savings Bank, got into the back-to-school spirit with their "Fill a Backpack" project. Rotary Club members arrived early for their weekly meeting and filled one-hundred backpacks with notebooks,binders, glue sticks, pens, pencils, rulers, folders, markers and more. The backpacks were presented to Greater Fall River non-profit organizations who will distribute the bags to children under their care. Representatives from Family Service, Association Big Friends/Little Friends and Child and Family Services Inc., United Neighbors of Fall River, The Women's Center L.O.F.T. Program, and Bristol Elder Services accepted backpacks.
On March 27, 2010, the Violence Prevention Task Force will be holding its Second Annual Peace by Piece Summit. This year the summit will be held at Kuss Middle School, 53 Globe Mills Avenue. Members of the Peaceful Coalition will be featured as the Keynote speakers. Throughout the day there will be workshops that will help us learn to promote a more peaceful community and develop and implement strategies, programs and policies that address the issues of violence prevention in our community.
