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Children are the experts on their own lives, says Dr. Xuejing Li. Centering the experiences of children and their families is an integral aspect of Li’s approach to the psychiatric care she provides as the medical director, outpatient behavioral health at Worcester nonprofit Seven Hills Foundation.With a case load of 120 children and counting, Li works to prescribe medication while being keenly attuned to the different kinds of systems her patients are living in.

YOU, Inc., an affiliate of Seven Hills Foundation, is grateful for the generous funding from our community partners in support of the Dynamy John S. Laws Youth Academy program. Youth Academy provides essential services for promising, first-generation high school students in the city of Worcester. In the year ahead, our funders’ investments will provide academic supports, leadership development and community service opportunities, outdoor experiential education, college tours, admission and financial aid education, and...

With the generous support of twelve central Massachusetts human service provider agencies, The Caring Force Rally made the voices of our Seven Hills staff and supported people heard. Clark University’s Tilton Hall was over capacity with yellow Caring Force shirts in a show of unity among the human services providers. Many Seven Hills staff members, supported people, and family members gathered to advocate for a livable wage that will attract and retain good people who want to make a meaningful impact in people’s lives; the...

Kathleen Jordan joined the Seven Hills Foundation more than two decades ago, when she was hired to manage the nonprofit’s acquisition of a pediatric skilled nursing facility in Groton. She’d heard of Seven Hills; she had lived in Worcester and was vaguely aware of what the Worcester-based nonprofit did. But as she got into her job and saw the organization intimately with her own eyes, she knew it was special.

As the U.S. faces an ongoing workforce shortage among behavioral health providers, oneWorcester program is working to open pathways for immigrant and refugee BIPOC looking to enter the human services and behavioral health workforce.