Thrive in 5 mourns the loss of our beloved former Mayor, career-long education advocate and friend, Thomas M. Menino. “Mayor Menino understood that the best way to ensure life-long success is to start early, building a solid foundation for learning in the first five years of life,” said Jane Tewksbury, Executive Director of Thrive in
Samilla Quiroa was surprised by the unusual request. Could her two year-old son open the door with just a verbal command? That’s what the Thrive in 5 parent screener wanted to know. No finger pointing, no gesture of any manner; could he respond to his mother’s words? In her topsy-turvy world of stay-at-home mothering, this
“It doesn’t matter where you are,” Dianna Webb says. “It doesn’t matter where you live.” She doesn’t know precisely what “it” is, but she knows the damage that lies in its wake. One year ago, she was jarred awake by gunshots; three young women had just been murdered near her Dorchester home. Her best friend,
Peeps! There was no other way to describe it: the kid was a typhoon, a nuclear-powered toddler that couldn’t sit still for five consecutive seconds and produced a trail of dirt and debris in his jet-stream. Alexis Agrinsoni steeled himself. It was going to be an interesting 90 minutes. It was 10:00 a.m. on February
Thrive in 5′s Boston Children Thrive initiative received an Outstanding Achievement City Livability Award from the US Conference of Mayors and Waste Management, Inc. at the annual USCM Conference in Orlando on June 14th. “Boston is a city of neighborhoods and Thrive in 5 is transforming our neighborhoods into opportunity-rich communities for our city’s youngest