Founding Partners
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Jorge Vargas
President
He has been an activist for over 30 years in the Boston community, where he has served on boards such as the Martha Eliot Center. He has served as vice president of Jamaica Plain Community Centers. He also served as treasurer of the same organization helping to raise funds for the community center before and during the pandemic.
Jorge has also been a small business owner and merchant for nearly a decade in the Charlestown area. Most recently he is prominent in labor activism in labor unions, especially in his union CEU LOCAL 888 where he has been on the executive board and is noted as President of Latinos Cacos. For over three decades he has worked for the City of Boston Facilities Department under the Boston Public Schools.
One of Jorge's focuses has been the welfare of his community and union members, which had already been affected financially and in terms of mental health benefits, making their situation much worse in the pandemic. As a result of all this, Jorge made a more personal contribution and decided to work hard and bring more holistic mental and emotional health benefits to families, thus organizing with a group of collaborators the EHR Boston Communities Corporation.
María Hart
Vice president - CEO
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Facilitator in life processes and specialist in human development. With a degree in Sociology from the National University of Colombia and a master's degree in Holistic Psychology, in addition to other studies. She has worked in the East Boston community for 3 years and her experience has allowed her to see the different difficulties that the community faces.
She is the creator of the ERR Program - RECONSTRUCTIVE AND REPARATIVE TEACHING IN FAMILY DYNAMICS; which brings a vision of reconstruction of non-functional patterns by patterns and emotions that bring wellbeing and that allows them to face the challenges of life, putting this tool at the service of the community.
Convinced that the reconstruction and peace are achieved with an inner work that only new beliefs and paradigms give. That is why she is committed to creating an organization together with the other founders because only by taking the first step and contributing from her experience and leadership, it will be possible to take many more steps in the company of all the members of this Corporation and the state entities, to create communities capable of building their own welfare.
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Mauricio Cardona
Treasurer
Father of a family committed to the academic and disciplinary process of the children with a great sense of commitment to the development of each one's life project to the realization of their goals and dreams. As a father of a family, he acts as the first educator of the Faith, through word and example. "A good father is one who educates his children with affection and love, but at the same time guides in values, responsibility and respect.
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Beatríz Contreras
Program Manager
Beatriz Contreras is currently a Paraprofessional for the â…˜ substantial grade - sub separate classroom worked as an Engagement Coordinator at Guild School for 6 years in East Boston, participates in many Family Early Childhood Development outreach efforts in East Boston, where she resides, she is originally from Sonora, Mexico. She came to Boston 20 years ago and began working as a nanny. She is the mother of a 13-year-old girl who attends BPS.
Among her many accomplishments, she established collaboration with WGBH around the testing of Spanish-language educational materials for PEEP and El Gran Mundo, intended for national consumption; she has also facilitated workshops with Read Boston. She was a member of the Boston Family Engagement Network Steering Committee and a board member of the Boston Public Health Commission's Defending Childhood Breakthrough Series; I also work for Countdown to Kindergarten as a leader of the East Boston playgroup.
Working with families is my passion as an immigrant mother. I can deeply understand mothers and families in the Boston area. I would like to help families who are going through a difficult time due to trauma or post - Covid - pandemic. I believe that by working together we can create a healthy family, a healthy community, and a healthy world.
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A loving woman committed to helping others, mother of 4 children and grandmother for the second time, a survivor of domestic violence, says she works in family reconstruction from all points, as she empowered herself to bring her children forward; Beatriz committed to various causes in the community of Boston, brings to this corporation wisdom, dedication and teamwork. With a special gift for working with children and helping them to find a sense of calm in their hearts, she has implemented the didactic classes of yoga and the corner of calm as a contribution to the welfare of children, with her commitment and sense of belonging we are sure that we can work together in the welfare of our community.
Beatríz Cardona
Events Manager