Seven Hills ASPiRE! would like to thank the Bank of America Charitable Foundation for their $15,000 grant award to support the Workforce Readiness and Employment program at the Worcester ASPiRE! Program. Through these generous funds, participants in the Workforce Readiness and Employment program will have access to the cloud-based job training and job readiness tool, MECA (Microcomputer Evaluation of Careers and Academics). The MECA platform will deliver targeted soft skills and job skills interventions that will help them...

The Bristol County Sheriff’s Office has awarded Seven Hills Behavioral Health (SHBH) with two generous grants totaling $90,000. These funds will be used to provide Substance Abuse and Educational Services and Co-Occurrence and Aftercare Services to inmates at the Bristol County Correctional Facilities. Seven Hills Behavioral Health has extensive experience working with incarcerated individuals. SHBH utilizes highly-trained and experienced staff members who travel to these facilities on a daily basis. Services to be provided...

Thank you to the Members of the Worcester Country Club (WCC) who Chipped In for Access to the Arts for All, yesterday, at the 44th Annual Lori Lajoie Charity Golf Tournament. Golfers blazed a course for success at this annual tradition, inspired by a young girl with disabilities, Lori Lajoie, and her parents, Coco and Ray, WCC's former golf pro. Paying tribute and testimony to the challenges of disabilities this year was the LPGA's Brittany Altomare, whose grandparents, former WCC Members Nick and Mary Altomare, advocated...

Dr. Jay Hayston, Vice President of Seven Hills ASPiRE! was honored at the Massachusetts State House on August 9th with the Steven E. Collins Leadership Award. The statewide award is presented by the MA Department of Developmental Services Urban Youth Collaborative Program to a dynamic leader who is making a difference through leadership in developmental services. Jay was an Urban Youth participant twice, in 2005 and 2004 at the Wrentham Developmental Center. “I was an English major but my time spent as an Urban Youth...