Lunch & Learn Speaker Series

FREE classes for individuals, small businesses 
and non-profit organizations offered by the 
Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Community Outreach Center

We look forward to having you join us for a session soon!

Community Resource Awareness and Mobile Outreach

Tuesday, January 28, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Amecia “Macc” Thomas

Topics to be discussed:

  1. Private Unsecured Lending Options

  2. Community Micro-Grant Funding

  3. Self-Sufficiency Resources

  4. Hotspot Incubator Hubs

About the Speaker Macc Thomas

Amecia “Macc” Thomas

Macc Thomas has been a community and business literacy advocate for over 6 years. Her passion to serve her peers and community is unmatched. She prides herself in being a valuable source of light and information thatinspires her peers to push passed their boundaries to create an enrichinglifestyle. She works closely with local communities and incubator initiatives in the City of Dallas to bring awareness to and connect the viable resources to individuals, local communities and small-business owners. 

By hosting information sessions her organization offers the opportunity to connect in a wholesome setting to ask questions about the highlighted resources and receive one on one assistance with general applications, document retrieval services and assistance with submission of paperwork for other local, city or government programs. Opportunities to learn about non-traditional private lending sources, micro-grant community funding, individual and family self-sufficiency programs, family goverenance and trust building workshops are just a few of the tools that are currently being highlighted and brought to the forefront of the community. Active participation and contribution are essential to the information sessions and offer the opportunity to practice, implement or access the concepts and resources presented.

Life After Layoff - 3 Part Series

Thursday, January 30, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Speaker McGlauthon (Mac) Fleming III

  1. Attendees will learn the five Social and Emotional Learning concepts and how they can be consistently implemented into daily practice in their everyday lives.

  2. Attendees will gain an understanding of a multitude of feeling and emotion words that will help them begin promoting positive self-awareness of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around their emotional intelligence.

  3. Attendees will identify their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around and to the prospect of job loss.

About the Speaker McGlauthon (Mac) Fleming III

Mac Fleming III

McGlauthon (Mac) Fleming III, your Neighborhood-Friendly Edutainment Facilitator, is the founder and President of Ubiquitii Educational Solutions.  As an Edutainment Facilitator, he makes learning new and reinforced information a fun, enjoyable, and engaging experience through the company’s creative gamivities (games and activities combined) that have mental health awareness and social and emotional learning concepts sprinkled throughout.

MacThe3rd has honed the ability to curate and produce these themed workshops and school jamborees for K-12 students and everyday workforce professionals by leveraging his two decades of experience in Social Services working with at-risk youth, juvenile sex offenders and victims and various children from the states of Iowa, Illinois, California, and Texas.

His 75+ workshops and jamborees have yielded over 3,000 attendees as he and his team continue to make an impact across the country as the attendees have the ability to learn according to their preferred learning method while having fun doing it!

Rules for Frazier House: (Inside of the Julia C. Frazier Elementary School Building)

  1. The parking lot closest to the building through the second gate is for FRAZIER EMPLOYEES only.  It is labeled.  Handicapped parking is located here also.  Display your handicap tag.

  2. Absolutely NO PARKING in the first gate of Lyons Street (Where trash cans are located).  Those are all RESERVED PARKING SPOTS.  No Parking alongside the wall (It is labeled “No Parking”).    

  3. No Parking in front of trash cans will be permitted.

  4. Parallel parking along the street is permitted at the risk of the owner, as long as the vehicle is following all state and city laws.

  5. Entrance is on Spring Street. Press the intercom button to be let inside.       

  6. Everyone will sign in at the front of the building. 

  7. No doors will be propped open with any device or apparatus.

  8. Keep noise levels down.  There is staff working and classes in session.

  9. Absolutely NO SMOKING on DISD property (that includes vaping).

Protocols for when Frazier House hosts in-person events:

COVID-19 Safety Protocols for Frazier House

While visiting Frazier House, please keep in mind the following considerations:

  • Upon arrival, guests will be asked to sign in and sign a covid waiver.

  • Wearing a mask is currently optional