The Greater Worcester Community Foundation, the United Way of Central Massachusetts has awarded Family Services of Central Massachusetts with a $60,000 grant award towards our Summer Literacy Initiative.

Our Seven Hills Foundation & Affiliates community mourns the passing of long-time champion, Claire M. Swan. As a parent advocate, Clarie was involved with the Worcester Area Association of Retarted Citizens, founded in the 1950s, the organizational predecessor of Seven Hills Foundation, and has loyally and passionately supported our work ever since.

The Webster Five Foundation has joined a list of partners supporting Seven Hills Foundation affiliate, Open Door Arts, with providing virtual art classes and tours at the Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum

Children’s Friend is the grateful recipient of a $15,000 grant from the Greater Worcester Community Foundation’s Community Grant program to support its Gender Wellness Initiative. Sixty-one percent of Massachusetts high school youth who identify as sexual minorities report depressive symptoms from the stresses of isolation, bullying, parental rejection and bias, while 10% of those surveyed said they made a suicide plan. Children’s Friend will use these granted funds to provide counseling services through our outpatient...

The Seven Hills Child & Family Behavioral Health center at 135 Gold Star Blvd. in Worcester is expected to open by March and become the main hub for the behavioral health clinical operations of YOU, Inc., Children’s Friend and Family Services of Central Massachusetts, three Seven Hills affiliates that have supported children and families in the region for decades.