College Admissions 2020

In Pursuit of Flourishing Life | Is College the Key?

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As colleges become ever more competitive, the admissions process can generate an enormous amount of pressure and anxiety. In the midst of these pressures, the initially motivating desire to pursue a college education — a flourishing life — can be subverted. 

Join Dr. Matthew Croasmun, Grace Farms Foundation’s Faith Initiative Director and Lecturer of Humanities at Yale University; Dr. Karen E. Eshoo, Head of School at King School; and Dr. Frank Bartolomeo, Director of Adolescent Services at Silver Hill, for a discussion about how the college prep and application processes can reveal and shape both parents’ and students’ visions of flourishing life.

Healthy Living

Eight-Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course at Grace Farms Starts April 1

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Join Grace Farms Foundation for an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course taught by Dr. Brandon Nappi, founder and executive director of Copper Beech Institute. — an announcement from Grace Farms

The course will provide participants with the tools to help cultivate greater mindfulness in their day-to-day lives. A contemplative practice, mindfulness helps to awaken your senses, expand your capacity for presence, and come into greater awareness of yourself and your connectedness to others. This course is open to people at any level of contemplative experience, including beginners. Benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) include:

Increased well-being and happiness

—Less stress and anxiety

—Strengthened immune system

—Less emotional reactivity

—Greater focus and cognitive flexibility

—Greater empathy and compassion

—Lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms

—Reductions in pain levels and an enhanced ability to cope with pain

The course will be held from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesdays from April 1 through May 20, with a full-day retreat held on Saturday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

An orientation via video conference call will be held prior to the start of the course on Wednesday, March 18 at 7 p.m.

The price for the course is $500.

Birds 2020

Join the Great Backyard Bird Count at Grace Farms

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Help us count the birds at Grace Farms! Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count is the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds. — an announcement from Grace Farms

Now more than 160,000 people join the 4-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds. Join Master Birder Frank Mantlik on a special birdwatching tour and bird count to coincide with the global event. We’ll be walking on mown trails, which may be wet, so please wear appropriate footwear, dress for the weather, and bring your binoculars.

Grace Farms Events 2020

Creating Partnerships to Combat Modern Slavery: Panel Discussion at Grace Farms

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Grace Farms will hold a panel discussion during National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month to discuss the critical role that public-private partnerships play in eradicating modern slavery. Local and federal law enforcement are crucial partners in combatting human trafficking, yet there are few organizations that focus their resources on collaborating with these agencies by providing the tools and knowledge required for effective prevention, investigation, and prosecution-related measures and policies. This program will provide an opportunity for the public to hear directly from a survivor and from a panel of experts dedicated to fighting this crime, while highlighting the value that Grace Farms Foundation provides through anti-trafficking law enforcement training and capacity building.

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Grace Farms to Host Panel on How Public/Private Partnerships Combat Modern Slavery

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Grace Farms Foundation today announced its upcoming public panel, “A Framework for Freedom,” which will discuss the critical role that public-private partnerships play in eradicating modern day slavery. — an announcement from Grace Farms Foundation
Hosted during National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, the event will address the importance of collaboration between organizations and local and federal law enforcement in preventing, investigating, and prosecuting human trafficking crimes. Grace Farms Foundation’s Rod Khattabi, chief accountability officer & Justice Initiative director, and Alina Reynolds, general counsel & senior advisor to the Justice Initiative, will be joined by Lt. Terry Blake of the Norwalk Police Department and Donna Hubbard, a human trafficking survivor. “It is vital that organizations like ours work in tandem with law enforcement agencies to provide the knowledge, resources, and tools necessary to effectively investigate human trafficking,” said Khattabi. “Collaborative efforts that educate the public and simultaneously support both local and global law enforcement strengthen our ability to fight this crime and increase the likelihood that one day we’ll live in a world without it.”
The Foundation’s Justice Initiative works to eradicate the multi-billion-dollar industry of human trafficking and forced labor through training, policy, and advocacy.