Posted onDecember 15, 2025|Comments Off on “Medfield Photovoice” student art project 3:30–4:30 pm, 1/22, MHS Library
From Krissy King, MPH, Substance Use Prevention Coordinator
Photovoice Gallery to Showcase Medfield High School Student Art and Wellness Project Public Walkthrough on January 22 at Medfield High School Library
Medfield, MA — Members of the public are invited to attend a gallery walkthrough of the Medfield Photovoice student art project on January 22 from 3:30–4:30 p.m. at the Medfield High School Library.
Through a variety of expressive media, including photo collages, triptych art, light painting, and digital art, Medfield High School students explored a series of prompts reflecting the positive and negative influences on their health and well-being. Each project is accompanied by student-written captions designed to inspire education, reflection, and community dialogue about the experiences and challenges facing Medfield youth.
Medfield Photovoice is a collaborative effort between the Medfield Cares About Prevention (MCAP) community coalition, the Bellforge Arts Center, and the Medfield High School Art Department. Originally developed in 1992 by Caroline C. Wang and Mary Ann Burris, the Photovoice model is a participatory health promotion strategy that empowers individuals to examine personal and community issues through the lens of photography. This project supports MCAP’s ongoing Action Plan to advance youth health and wellness in Medfield through education, empowerment, and community-driven change.
The reception will also feature spoken reflections from selected Medfield students, accompanied by live music from the Medfield Guitar Club.
For additional information, please contact Krissy King at kking@medfield.net.
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Posted onMay 29, 2025|Comments Off on MCAP Seeking Focus Groups
From Viktorria Glissendorf at Medfield Outreach –
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Hi MCAP Members,
I’m attaching a flyer for our focus groups taking place next week, as well as a sample write-up you can use if you’d like. I’d really appreciate it if you could share this with your networks, especially those parents/guardians of high school/middle school students.
Information gathered will help influence our future coalition work, and is extremely valuable!
Posted onApril 29, 2025|Comments Off on MCSP’s “Path for Hope” Walk 11:30 AM Sunday – Medfield Rail Trail
From Anna Mae O’Shea Brooke –
MCSP’s Path for Hope Walk this Sunday, May 4th 11:30 AM at the Medfield Rail Trail Hosted by the Medfield Coalition for Suicide Prevention
This Mental Health Awareness Month of May, come walk with us as we build community, raise awareness, and honor those impacted by suicide. Path for Hope is more than just a walk; it’s a walk to foster community, connection and hope. It’s a show of support, a step toward healing, and a reminder that no one should walk alone in their struggles.
Sponsored by MCSP, a community-led coalition administered by Medfield Outreach, the Town of Medfield’s social service department. The mission of MCSP is to promote the mental health and emotional well-being of all community members. The vision of MCSP is to build a community where suicide, self-harm, and stigma have been replaced by hope, self-care, and acceptance.
Posted onFebruary 20, 2025|Comments Off on MFi 2025 Camp Fund Needs Your Help
Medfield Foundation 2025 Camp Fund Needs Your Help
Adults and children throughout Medfield have happy memories of summer camp. From a traditional experience in the woods, to skill building, to specialized camps, many Medfielders cherish these summer camp experiences and the friends they made there.
Before the summer camp season begins, the Medfield Foundation is asking Medfield residents to help make summer camp accessible to all.
Since 2017 the Medfield Foundation’s Camp Fund, thanks to the generosity of our Medfield donors, raised well over $55,000 to benefit more than 60 local families in offsetting costs in order to send their children to camps. Thanks to Medfielders’ generosity, scores of children from our town experienced the magic of a variety of summer camp sessions and swimming at Hinkley Pond. Some of our camper families’ related, “The program was a godsend that allowed me to keep my son with special needs in camp a few days a week so he could benefit from social interaction with his peers” and “Thank you so much for the generosity that helped give my children a chance to have fun and be happy during summer.”
This year, the goal is to raise even more as we expect an increased need for assistance.
The Medfield Foundation encourages you to make a tax deductible donation to help Medfield children attend summer camp! There are two easy ways to make your donation:
Send your check to the Medfield Foundation, PO Box 745, Medfield MA 02052. Please make your check out to Medfield Foundation, Inc and then please write “CAMP” in the memo line!
Medfield Foundation Inc. PO Box 745 Medfield MA 02052
We hope you will consider donating to the Medfield Foundation Camp Fund to send a Medfield child to summer camp.
And if you are need of financial assistance for your children to attend a Medfield based summer camp, please contact Medfield Outreach by calling 508-359-7121 x3421 or x3422 or via email: medfieldoutreach@medfield.net
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Posted onSeptember 13, 2024|Comments Off on MCAP Gets Second 5 Year $625K Federal Grant to Continue Town’s Prevention Coordinator
From Kathy McDonald and Viktorria Glissendorfof Medfield Outreach –
Medfield Cares About Prevention coalition announces Drug-Free Communities grant continuation
The Medfield Cares About Prevention (MCAP) coalition, a Medfield Foundation Initiative, is excited to announce that it was awarded a FY2024 Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant continuation in the amount of $625,000 over five years by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). This grant is managed through a partnership between the ONDCP and Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
MCAP is a coalition of people who live and work in the Medfield community and who care about the well-being of our youth. MCAP’s mission is to reduce youth substance use, promote healthy decisions, and build a culture of safety in Medfield. This community coalition has broad representation of parents, youth, businesses, schools, healthcare professionals, private organizations, and public agencies. Our target population is Medfield youth, ages 11 to 18. MCAP works to reduce youth substance use, specifically targeting alcohol, marijuana and to promote positive alternatives to substance use through community collaboration.
In 2019, the Town of Medfield and MCAP were awarded a five-year Drug-Free Communities (DFC) grant allowing for the hiring of a full-time Substance Use Prevention Coordinator who worked to re-engage valuable members of the coalition and organizations within the community. We are very grateful that the additional five-years of funding will aid in supporting the ongoing efforts of the full-time Substance Use Prevention Coordinator, as well as providing funds for an assortment of evidence-based strategies to reduce youth substance use.
There are many whose contributions played a role in achieving continued funding. We would like to thank our leadership team, sector representatives, town leaders, school administrators, coalition members, youth and our community! We would also like to thank our grant writing consultant, Amanda Decker of Bright Solutions Consulting, who successfully guided us again on the process. A special thank you to the Medfield Foundation Legacy Fund, who awarded MCAP a mini grant back in 2019 positioning MCAP to secure consulting services that proved to be vital.
We look forward to another five years of meaningful and important collaboration with the Medfield community!
The coalition is open to all community members! Learn more on our website at https://medfieldcares.org/ or email us at medfieldoutreach@medfield.net for the monthly meeting schedule. Please join us in this important work!
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Posted onSeptember 5, 2024|Comments Off on Purple ribbons for suicide prevention month, by MCSP & Medfield Outreach
In addition to being thankful to the Medfield Coalition for Suicide Prevention and Medfield Outreach for putting up the purple ribbons and notes, please notice how many nails and staples there are in that one telephone pole. There must have been many, many flyers on that pole. I wonder how old the oldest one was.
The following further explanation is from one of my fellow Plaintiff personal injury attorneys on our Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys listserv:
September is National Recovery Month. What a wonderful way to bring the great hope of recovery to the forefront.
It is also National Suicide Prevention Month—a wonderful way to bring the great hope of prevention to the forefront.
Calling All Medfield Parents and Guardians! We need your help!
Medfield Outreach and the Medfield Cares About Prevention (MCAP) Community Coalition are conducting an online parent/guardian survey to better understand parental/guardian views as they relate to youth substance use in our community. This information will be used to inform programming to improve the health of our community’s young people. Your input matters!
This survey is open to all Medfield parents and guardians and will take less than eight minutes to complete. The survey is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Please use this link: flowcode.com/p/qUBpwP2na?fc=0 or the QR code to access the survey. It will remain open until 11:59pm on Sunday, December 3rd. Fill it out for your chance to win a $30 gift card!
To learn more about MCAP or youth substance use prevention efforts in Medfield, please visit medfieldcares.org. If you have questions about the survey do not hesitate to contact Medfield Outreach at medfieldoutreach@medfield.net or 508-359-7121. We strongly encourage all eligible parents/caretakers to participate, as your input is integral to our work.
No personally identifying information will be collected during this survey, and your responses will remain completely anonymous. The data will only be reported on in aggregate form. We will not publish any individual responses to the survey. *Signing up to be entered to win a gift card or to be notified of survey results will not in any way risk the anonymity of your survey responses. The contact form is not connected in any way to the survey responses.
This survey was supported in part by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(HHS) as part of a financial assistance award funded by ONDCP. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by ONDCP, CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
Email today from Meri Haas –
Our Medfield Parent/Guardian Survey is ready to disseminate!
Sending it around to everyone you know. (See the press release attached for content. You can use this link or send people to our website to fill it out: medfieldcares.org
I started this blog to share the interesting and useful information that I saw while doing my job as a Medfield select board member. I thought that my fellow Medfield residents would also find that information interesting and useful as well. This blog is my effort to assist in creating a system to push the information out from the Town House to residents. Let me know if you have any thoughts on how it can be done better.
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