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At Seven Hills, our mission is to promote and encourage the empowerment of children and adults with significant challenges so that each may pursue their highest possible degree of personal well-being and independence. Our professional staff is passionate about our work that helps people SEE the possibilities, BELIEVE in themselves, and ACHIEVE their dreams.

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Seven Hills Rhode Island Early Intervention Program Receives $5K Grant From Navigate Credit Union

Seven Hills Rhode Island Early Intervention Program Receives $5K Grant From Navigate Credit Union

Our sincerest regards to Navigant Credit Union for their grant of $5,000 to support the Seven Hills Rhode Island Early Intervention program. Navigant Credit Union has generously supported SHRI programs for several years in the state of “Hope.” This grant provides Hope for over 800 families each year with infants and toddlers ages birth—3 years who are experiencing, or at risk of, developmental delays. Early Intervention builds off hope and helps develop tangible, fundamental skills, during this most critical developmental...

Children's Friend Receives Grant for Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Children's Friend Receives Grant for Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Children’s Friend would like to express their most sincere thanks to The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation for the generous Catalyst Fund grant of $4,270 to train additional clinicians in providing specialized Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Children’s Friend’s clinicians treat children and youth who are self-injurious through the DBT program by moving them from crisis to stability through teaching and strengthening the skills of mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Introducing this week’s Seven Hills Champion: Cassandra Miller

Introducing this week’s Seven Hills Champion: Cassandra Miller

In just six months, Cassandra “Cassie” Miller has stepped into the newly created Activities Specialist position at Seven Hills NeuroCare’s Burncoat residence and is transforming possibilities into achievements for its residents with acquired brain injury (ABI). Their abilities vary widely and it’s Cassie’s challenge to uncover the latest assistive technology or resource to nurture interests and attain goals. Cassie’s undergraduate degree in psychology with a double minor in philosophy and applied behavior analysis help her...

Transition to Adulthood: It's a Team Effort

Transition to Adulthood: It's a Team Effort

It would be an exhausting challenge to find a student who wanted their education to last forever. For most high school students, the light at the end of the tunnel is nearly blinding, as plans are underway for college, employment, or alternative options. For students with developmental disabilities enrolled in special education, the light at the end of the tunnel can flicker as parents/guardians and the students, themselves, struggle with the journey through the Transition tunnel—the long and arduous process of methodically...

Introducing this week’s Seven Hills Champion:  Anthony “Tony” Johnson

Introducing this week’s Seven Hills Champion:  Anthony “Tony” Johnson

It’s been an exciting three years and eight months for Tony Johnson since joining the Seven Hills workforce in May 2018. Tony began his Seven Hills career as a certified nursing assistant (CNA), working at Seven Hills Pediatric Center at Hopedale while studying to become a registered nurse (RN). Once certified, Tony changed his position to be the night shift RN at Hopedale. During this time, he also became a Department of Children and Families (DCF) visiting resource for one of the teenaged residents of the center. Tony...

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Bill Stock
Vice President for Government and Community Relations 81 Hope Ave, Worcester, MA 01603
Phone: 508.983.1305
Fax: 508.849.3888
Email: bstock@sevenhills.org
Kathleen A. Myshrall
Vice President of Advancement 81 Hope Ave, Worcester, MA 01603
Phone: 508.983.1302
Fax: 508.849.3888
Email: kmyshrall@sevenhills.org
Jennifer Wentworth
Director of Communications 81 Hope Ave, Worcester, MA 01603
Phone: 508.983.1304
Fax: 508.849.3888
Email: jwentworth@sevenhills.org