Episode 70: Jenna Bancroft (Director of Human Services, City of Watertown)

Meet Jenna Bancroft! She's the Director of Human Services for the City of Watertown, a new department in the city. In this conversation we talk about how when she was a teenager her family helped foster young kids and how that experience led her to want to get into a career to improve social services. We talk about her early work in Watertown at Wayside Youth & Family Support Network and how that direct work with people led her to want to step up in scope to try and affect things higher up. Then we dig into the new Human Services department in Watertown, how it quickly jumped in on issues such as food access and housing needs, why Watertown is a great community to work on these issues, and some of her thoughts on the future of the department and areas it might put their efforts. We also talk about the community food drive that is currently going on through the end of December, so be sure to click on the link below to see how you can help.Visit the Human Services webpageCommunity Food Drive: City's webpage and Watertown Community Foundation's webpageSupport the showHead on over to www.littlelocalconversations.com to check out all the episodes, events, and everything else going on. Sign up for the Little Local Conversations email newsletter Follow on Instagram: @littlelocalconversationsUpcoming events! Click here to see upcoming live podcast events.