Each year in September, we sound the call to recognize the heroic efforts of human services professionals that work directly to care for children and adults with disabilities and life challenges. Across our country, September 12-18 is known as National Direct Support Professionals Week, highlighting the importance of the direct care profession, and celebrating those that have chosen to serve. At Seven Hills, we certainly recognize this week and the national importance of the common celebration. A collective voice across our...

Seven Hills Behavioral Health’s Connie Rocha-Mimoso works to erase the stigma surrounding substance abuse. Leading the New Bedford Opioid Task Force, Connie is rallying the southeast community to access the help they need to get treatment, and the post treatment support they need to #BeWell .

Meet our Director of Community Health Services for Seven Hills Behavioral Health, Connie Rocha-Mimoso. Connie’s work includes many community outreach initiatives and programming in the Southeast region of Massachusetts, where she attends and contributes at community public health meetings, as well as conferences for substance abuse and mental health. With much of her work taking place in the community, Connie works with a wide range of stakeholders like churches, local school systems, the State Department of Public Health,...

Since 2010 Seven Hills Global Outreach, an affiliate of the Worcester, MA based Seven Hills Foundation, has partnered with local nonprofits in 8 developing countries supporting schools, medical clinics, birthing centers, clean water projects and micro financing efforts all designed to uplift people out of abject poverty. Seven Hills recently sent a crate filled with medical supplies and computers to its partner in Sierra Leone to help track and then address the outbreak of the COVID pandemic in that country. “Amid a...

A recent grant of $20,000 from National Grid continues their generous legacy of support for the ASPiRE! Workforce Readiness and Employment program. These funds will support 30 participants with 20-30 hours weekly of paid internship opportunities at the Seven Hills Stearns Tavern site in Worcester. Individuals working at Stearns Tavern receive comprehensive job coaching supports and develop essential social and practical skills which will help them achieve long term success in the workplace.