Springfield – Square One’s Vice President of Family Services, Melissa Blissett, has been named Advisory Board Chair of the Springfield College School of Social Work. Her appointment follows the passing of long-time social worker and social services advocate, Dora Robinson.

On Saturday, September 23rd, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Springfield, MA, an eager audience came out to hear Civil Rights Icon, Willie Pearl Mackey King, speak as part of a series of “Crucial Conversations” being hosted by Rev. Dr. Atu White and the church.

Why am I writing this? I’m doing it so that any person reading this who is beating themselves up for not being “stronger” or feeling like they’re just being “lazy” or like this decline is some “normal” part of aging – will know that it isn’t any of that. Long COVID is real, and it…