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Bedlessness in Massachusetts
"I've never had something that didn't belong before to someone else." That is what a boy said to me as I set up a new bed for him in a small apartment that he shared with his three siblings and another family of five. About 35,000 children in Massachusetts don't have a bed to sleep on at night.
About this event
Children in Massachusetts without beds share with their parents, sleep on a couch, on an air mattress, or even on a pile of blankets on the floor. The Sleep in Heavenly Peace Middlesex County Chapter is working to change this with a skeletal crew of volunteers. At this BYUMS event, learn more about what this organization does and why Christanne Harrison and her family choose to spend so many volunteer hours helping them.
Speaker
Christanne Harrison
CSH Consulting
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Christanne Smith Harrison grew up in a small town in Idaho. She received a bachelor's degree in dietetics from Brigham Young University and a master's degree in public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She worked at a migrant health center in Arizona. In Massachusetts, she worked at the state Department of Secondary and Elementary Education, in Child Nutrition Programs. She …
Christanne Smith Harrison grew up in a small town in Idaho. She received a bachelor's degree in dietetics from Brigham Young University and a master's degree in public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She worked at a migrant health center in Arizona. In Massachusetts, she worked at the state Department of Secondary and Elementary Education, in Child Nutrition Programs. She founded Child Nutrition Training Solutions, a provider of interactive online training for child nutrition professionals. She teaches at Framingham State University. CSH Consulting is her current nutrition consulting practice. CSH's clients are schools and child care centers. As a volunteer, Christanne is co-president of the Middlesex County chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization that builds and delivers beds for children in need. She lives in Framingham with her husband and three children.