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Wayside Youth & Family Support Network receives funding from the Boston Children’s Route 128 Community Health Initiative  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  August 11, 2023  Contact: Betsy Freedman Doherty 774-287-6418 (cell) Betsy_FreedmanDoherty@WaysideYouth.Org    Wayside Youth & Family Support Network receives funding from the Boston Children’s Route 128 Community Health Initiative     Framingham, MA. August 11, 2023. Wayside Youth & Family Support Network has received $147,651 over three years from Boston Children’s Hospital as…
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Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Announces Sara McCabe as President and Chief Executive Officer

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 30, 2023 Contact: Betsy Freedman Doherty 774-287-6418 (cell) Betsy_Freedmandoherty@Waysideyouth.org Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Announces Sara McCabe as President and Chief Executive Officer. Framingham, MA – After an extensive search process, Sara McCabe, LICSW was unanimously appointed by the Board of Directors to be Wayside’s new President and…
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Wayside Youth & Family Support Network named 2023 TopWorkplaces in Nonprofits & Culture

We are thrilled to announce that Wayside has won three Top Workplace awards from Energage! Our annual Staff Satisfaction Survey has earned us the Top Workplace award in three categories: Top Workplace – Nonprofit Organizations Top Workplace Culture – Purpose & Values Top Workplace Culture – Innovation Energage benchmarks our scores against other agencies like…
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Sara McCabe appointed Wayside President and CEO

June 30, 2023 As chair of the Board at Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, I am very pleased to inform the community that after an extensive search process, Sara McCabe was unanimously appointed by the Board to be Wayside’s new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, replacing our long time CEO Eric…
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One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Talk About Neurodiversity In The Workplace

At Wayside’s DEI Committee, we are beginning to engage in the conversation of how to build not just an antiracist culture at Wayside, but an anti-ableist one as well. One way to start is by talking about how neurodiversity can show up in the work environment and ways to rethink that environment to make it…
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Guimel DeCarvalho recognized as one of the region’s Most Influential Business Leaders of Color

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2023 Contact: Betsy Freedman Doherty 774.287.6418 (cell) Betsy_FreedmanDoherty@WaysideYouth.Org Framingham, Mass. – Wayside Youth & Family Support Network’s Vice President of People and Culture and Chief Diversity Officer, Guimel DeCarvalho has been recognized as one of the region’s Most Influential Business Leaders of Color. The list was produced by the Charles…
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One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today:Support Microgrants For Families Fleeing States With Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

With over 400 anti-LGBTQ bills being proposed across the U.S. in this legislative session and with many states already passing them into law, families with LGBTQ+ kids are fleeing from their homes and moving out of states like Florida and Texas. Not all are able to afford to and so organizations like Trans Youth Equality…
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Parent-Peer Partnership Program – TEENAGERS AND MARIJUANA

Learn about the effects of marijuana and substance use disorders. We welcome Steve Delbanco, Wayside’s substance use intervention coordinator as he teaches us about teen marijuana use, the risks to their developing brains, and how to see the signs and intervene. MAY 5, AT 6PM VIRTUAL Questions: Louis_Duquetteholmes @waysideyouth.org

PHOTOS: 19th Annual MetroWest Human Services Advocacy Coalition Legislative Breakfast

FRAMINGHAM – The 19th annual MetroWest Human Services Advocacy Coalition legislative breakfast was held at Nevins Hall inside the Memorial Building in Framingham on Friday, April 28, 2023. City of Framingham Mayor Charlie Sisitsky welcomed the social service agencies and the MetroWest legislative delegation to the 2-hour event. Senate President Karen Spilka (D-Ashland0 and Senator…
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One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Learn The Roots of the Terms, Asian American, AAPI, and AANHPI

May is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This month dig into knowing more about the history of this term and who it applies to. First coined as a chosen name to organize a political alliance in the 1960’s by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, Asian American, was rooted in ethnic studies. Watch the video on the right…
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