OTHER EVENTS AND USEFUL INFORMATION
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Wed, June 1, 2022
6:45 PM – 8:45 PM
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
IMPACT’ Silver Spring hosting an advanced viewing of Suppressed and Sabotaged 2022, a documentary by Brave New Films that raises public awareness of the alarming ways that efforts to suppress the vote and overturn election results are threatening our democracy.
The screening (film is 43 minutes long) and will be followed by a panel discussion featuring:
Yanet Amanuel, Director of Public Policy, ACLU of Maryland
Joanne Antoine, Executive Director, Common Cause Maryland
Will Wilder, Singer Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice
Our host and moderator is Ronnie Galvin, Managing Director for Community Investment, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
We’re pleased to be able to offer this as a FREE event, but we need your support to keep events like this free. That’s why this event is also a fundraiser!
At checkout, please consider making a donation–suggested amount: $25 – $50 or whatever you’re able to give. The money raised through this event will go towards IMPACT’s continued equitable COVID recovery efforts, and transformational work on the individual, neighborhood and systems levels.
For more details and to register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/39w9nauc.
June 7-9, 2022
Virtual
MORE THAN is a Survivor-Led Conference series hosted by the CFLS Speakers Bureau.
In 2022, MORE THAN Mother will explore Motherhood, the Criminal Justice System, & Access to Services
The conference will feature panels on a variety of topics including the Black maternal health crisis, an ethics panel on pregnancy in prisons, mothering while going through a domestic violence situation, and many others. These panel will feature academics and policy makers as well as the directly impacted women of the CFLS Speakers Bureau. We are proud to announce our Keynote Speakers Tracey Helton Mitchell, author of The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin, who will discuss her experience with motherhood and addiction. We will also be featuring Congresswoman Lauren Underwood to discuss her work on the Black Maternal Health Caucus.
This conference will offer 12 National Association of Social Work continuing education credits as well as opportunities to network with social workers, policy professionals, and change makers in the criminal justice and social work space. More information on the conference is available here: https://www.morethanconference.com/
Telecommuting Policy Template
Chances are that you’ve had to dramatically upend your operational procedures to adjust to the new reality caused by an unprecedented global pandemic.
Today, and for the foreseeable future, many of the employees supporting small businesses are working from home.
If you don’t have a formal policy in place, don’t add that to your list of worries. Momentum Law Group has graciously allowed LM to share a resource that can help. Here, you will find a customizable Telecommuting Policy template to assist with your efforts.
If you have friends and colleagues who can make use of this Telecommuting Policy template, please feel free to share it. As always, if you need help navigating the ever-shifting business arena please reach out to Michael Gottlieb, Principal at Momentum Law Group at 301.658.2205 or at michael@momentumlawyers.com