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About MCC
Massachusetts Citizens for Children
Mission
Massachusetts Citizens for Children (MCC) is the oldest state-based child advocacy organization in the country. Our mission is to improve the lives of the state's most vulnerable children through advocacy by concerned citizens. It was founded in 1959 by pediatrician Martha May Eliot, MD, who served as Chief of the U.S. Children’s Bureau and held influential positions in both the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). With active support from Governor Foster Furculo, they established MCC as a permanent, independent citizens’ voice for Massachusetts’ most vulnerable children.
Over its nearly 50-year history, the organization’s work has been grounded in the belief that all Massachusetts children have the inherent right -
- To be safe from abuse, neglect, and violence;
- To be economically secure and free from poverty;
- To receive quality medical and preventive care;
- To learn in quality child care and school settings; and
- To live in caring families and healthy communities.
Since 1994, MCC has been the site of Massachusetts Kids Count – an Annie E. Casey Foundation-supported initiative to track the status of children in the United States. In 1986 it was selected to serve as the Massachusetts Chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. Its current focus is to prevent physical child abuse through the work of the Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Center. It is lead agency for the Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership and staffs the Enough Abuse Campaign - a statewide public engagement initiative to educate and mobilize parents, professionals and communities to prevent child sexual abuse. MCC also serves as the Massachusetts member of Voices for America’s Children, a national network of state and city multi-issue child advocacy organizations. Click here for highlights of MCC’s work and accomplishments for children.
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Child Poverty in Massachusetts:
A Tale of Three Cities, was released at a Press Conference held at New Bedford City Hall. (March 26, 2010)Click to View
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A Discussion about
Shaken Baby Prevention
with Middlesex DA Gerry Leone
and MCC Director Jetta Bernier
(August 2008)
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Suffolk Superior Court Show
with Maura Hennigan
Interview with Jetta Bernier
about the Enough Abuse
Campaign.
Click to View
"You can see
the State House
from the office windows
of MCC where some of
Massachusetts'
most committed advocates
meet regularly
to figure out how to
improve the lot
of this state's
forgotten children."
Eileen McNamara,
Pulitzer Prize winning
metro columnist
for the Boston Globe
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