Category: Blog

ShortStop Program Director Wins the Grand Prize

By Liam Haley, intern Antwan Steed, program director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network’s Shortstop program in Somerville, is doing something that will make any New Englander jealous this time of year – he’s traveling to sunny Jamaica later this month. Here’s the clincher: it’s completely free thanks to one very lucky raffle ticket.…
Read more

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Awarded $10,000 Grant from Foundation for MetroWest 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 7, 2020   Contact: Michelle Hillman  508-270-1254 (work)  508-380-5486 (cell)  Michelle_Hillman@waysideyouth.org        Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Awarded $10,000 Grant from Foundation for MetroWest  FRAMINGHAM, MA – Wayside Youth & Family Support Network recently received a $10,000 grant from the Foundation for MetroWest. Wayside will use the grant to continue its data collection and measurement project and increase its in-house capacity to customize data.   Wayside installed a new Electronic Medical Records (EMR) last year and…
Read more

Surviving and Thriving This Winter: Mental Health Tips From the Belmont Wellness Coalition

By Lisa Gibalerio Prevention Specialist and Belmont Wellness Coalition Coordinator Winters can be tough, for both students and their families. The excitement of the holidays is over and the freezing cold and darkness has set in. It’s a season of transition and high stress for many youth as they return to school after a long…
Read more

My Most Memorable Holiday: Giving the One Gift That Meant Everything to a 12-Year-Old Boy

By Kimberley Ward Senior Program Director, MetroWest Community Services, Framingham Sometimes all it takes is a new Easy Bake Oven to make a child’s holiday the most memorable they’ve ever had. My favorite story is of two brothers we worked with who were removed from their mother’s care and living in a foster home. The…
Read more

Message from the CEO: This Thanksgiving Take Care of Yourself

By Eric Masi President and CEO Recently some senior Wayside managers and I were reflecting with some of our board members about Wayside’s strengths and accomplishments. It was overwhelming to take stock of all that this agency represents and achieves on behalf of the children and families we serve. I know we never say thank…
Read more

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Receives $10,000 Grant from The Greater Lowell Health Alliance 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   November 1, 2019   Contact: Michelle Hillman  Michelle_Hillman@waysideyouth.org  508-270-1254 (direct)   508-380-5486 (cell)    Michelle_Hillman@waysideyouth.org     Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Receives $10,000 Grant from The Greater Lowell Health Alliance  LOWELL, MA – Wayside Youth & Family Support Network’s PrideSide Lowell program received a $10,000 grant from the Greater Lowell Health Alliance (GLHA). The grant will allow PrideSide Lowell to add a group for…
Read more

Why I Love Halloween on the Wayside Campus

By Sara McCabe, vice president of campus services, (aka Veruca Salt in staff photo above) Every year beginning in September, or honestly, mid-August, we start planning of our annual Wayside Campus Halloween Dance. It’s usually met with some eye rolling and smirks from the other campus managers because no one wants their summer rushed by…
Read more

Former ShortStop Client Lifting up Poor Kids in Guatemala

  Rolando Rojas, 24, is fulfilling the motto “Lift as You Climb” by returning to Guatemala for the first time in six years to deliver school supplies to children who lack the basics like shoes and books. Rojas learned the motto while at Year Up, an educational nonprofit in Boston that helps young adults move…
Read more

Wayside’s Guimel DeCarvalho Named Emerging Leader by the Association for Behavioral Healthcare 

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 18, 2019 Contact: Michelle Hillman Marketing and Communications Manager 508-270-1254 (direct) 508-380-5486 (cell) Michelle_Hillman@waysideyouth.org   Wayside Youth & Family Support Network’s Guimel DeCarvalho Named Emerging Leader by the Association for Behavioral Healthcare NEWTON, MA – Wayside Youth & Family Support Network’s Director of People and Culture, Guimel DeCarvalho, received the 2019 Elizabeth Funk Emerging Leader Award from the Association for Behavioral Healthcare (ABH) today…
Read more

10th Annual Wayside Youth & Family Support Network’s 5K4Kids Raises Over $100K  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  October 8, 2019   Contact: Michelle Hillman       Marketing and Communications Manager  508-270-1254 (direct)  508-380-5486 (cell)     Michelle_Hillman@waysideyouth.org    10th Annual Wayside Youth & Family Support Network’s 5K4Kids Raises Over $100K FRAMINGHAM, MA – Wayside Youth & Family Support Network announced today that it raised more than $100,000 from the 10th Annual 5K4Kids Run/Walk and Halloween…
Read more

Search