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  • Abbuah wins award for youth leadership

    Abbuah wins award for youth leadership Thursday, November 2, 2006   Felicia Abbuah, a peer leader for HIV and substance abuse prevention for Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, was presented with the Youth Leadership Award for her exemplary leader...
  • Unclouding the abused mind

    By Danielle Williamson/ Daily News Staff Friday, October 20, 2006 - Updated: 01:39 AM EST Imagine your best friend confides to you that her boyfriend is insanely jealous. He lies. He becomes explosive during disagreements, and when she threatens to break...
  • A vicious cycle

    By Danielle Williamson/ Daily News Staff Friday, October 13, 2006 - Updated: 01:44 AM EST  It’s become somewhat of a cliche in police work.       Officers respond to a couple’s home. She’s blotchy faced, red-eyed, crying and shaking. She says ...
  • Help is there for abused women

    By Danielle Williamson/ Daily News Staff Friday, October 13, 2006 - Updated: 01:47 AM EST  MILFORD -- Loriann Pallaria is never sure what or who will be waiting for her at the Milford Police Station.       There may be a frightened woman in the lobb...
  • Remembering domestic violence survivors

    By Danielle Williamson/ Daily News Staff Friday, October 6, 2006  MENDON -- Next time Nancy finds herself swimming with a dolphin, she will make sure to carefully examine its teeth.      It is not difficult to mistake a shark for a dolphin, at least ...
  • Wayside groundbreaking a long time coming

    By John Hilliard/MetroWest Daily News staff Tomorrow's groundbreaking of the Lockland Avenue residential facility for Wayside Youth and Family Support Network marks the new chapter of a project that dates back to the beginning of the decade. "It's been ...
  • Wayside program focuses on Brazilians

    By Paul Crocetti, Milford Daily News Staff  Sat Jul 21, 2007, Milford, Mass.   Thanks to a $54,000 grant from the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation, Wayside Youth and Family Support Network currently offers a prevention program for men at risk...
  • Grant to pay for young adult resource center

    By Jennifer Lord/MetroWest Daily News Staff The Wayside Youth & Family Support Network has been awarded nearly $1 million in grant money, including $493,000 from the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to establish a resource center downtown for ...
  • After bitter dispute, Wayside hopes for peace

    By D. Craig MacCormack/Daily News staff Wayside officials said yesterday they look forward to forging a positive relationship with local leaders and neighbors of their forthcoming campus for troubled teens on Lockland Avenue. Selectmen and Wayside's boar...
  • In aftermath of tragedy, help your child through grieving process

    Masi: In aftermath of tragedy, help your child through grieving process By Eric L. Masi/Guest columnist Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - Updated: 12:13 AM EST Teenagers are expressive in many ways - music, art, dance, talking on the phone. Conversing with par...
  • Hey You! Don’t help teens get drunk

    By David Riley/ Daily News Staff Thursday, October 26, 2006 - Updated: 01:11 AM EST MILFORD -- Older acquaintances and family members are just two avenues some teens employ to get their hands on alcohol. A group of local high school and middle scho...
  • Masi: Hug those you hold dear

    By Eric L. Masi/ Local Columnist Monday, September 11, 2006 Last evening while looking at some old family videos, I came across one taken when two of my sons and I visited Ground Zero in November 2001. The images were jolting. First, the flashback to th...
  • Reaching out to troubled teens

    By Liz Mineo/ Staff Writer Friday, July 28, 2006 - Updated: 12:14 PM EST At only 19 years old, Jose Romero has experienced his share of hardships. First, when he immigrated from his native Dominican Republic seven years ago, he had to learn English and a...
  • Wayside Plans Framingham Campus

    By Peter Reuell, MetroWest Daily News Sunday, January 6, 2002 FRAMINGHAM - A major MetroWest non-profit agency that treats and houses abused and neglected children may build a headquarters campus that would consolidate a...