The Thriving Children: Sharing Diverse Perspectives through Research, Story, and Art event served as a kick-off to the Mayerson Child Wellbeing Initiative (MCWI). MCWI will bring children, youth, families, community partners, institutional partners, and academics together to co-create a shared framework and measures set to accelerate our collective knowledge of and action for child thriving.
Event Objectives:
Build our community by gathering and sharing our collective experience through art, performance, and speech
Collect diverse perspectives of child and youth wellbeing by combining academic research with stories and performance
Synthesize the learning as a first step of a community-led design process through which we develop a shared model to describe and measure child and youth wellbeing in our community
Event Sessions:
Community Arts and Music Presentation by Annie Ruth Art (Recording)
Welcome and Table Setting with Carley Riley and Neal and Donna Mayerson (Recording)
Spoken Word Performance by Zee Pittman-Carter (Recording)
Six Notes on Well-being with Brita Roy and Carley Riley (Recording)
Performances by Elementz (Performance #1 & Performance #2)
Talk on Character Strengths with Ryan Niemiec (Recording)
Ignite Talk with Pratima Shanbhag and Sarah Zawalay (Recording)
Talk on Community Action for Wellbeing and Equity with Soma Saha (Recording)
Intergenerational Conversation on Child Thriving (Recording)
If you have any questions about the Mayerson Child Wellbeing Initiative, do not hesitate to reach out to communityhealth@cchmc.org.