Last year, our Adoption and Family Services teams had to make a tough choice: should Baby Eli be adopted by his committed uncle, who lived out of state, or his loving foster parents of two years?

Last week, our Developmental Disabilities Program hosted their annual holiday party on Zoom. A very special thanks to our DDP staff for all of their hard work arranging such a successful virtual event!

Thank you to Cambridge Savings Bank, one of our biggest supporters!

We want to express our gratitude to our partner, Cambridge Community Foundation, an awesome charitable foundation that funds nonprofits in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are grateful for their continued support!

Together, we can help youth and families in our communities have the resources they need to achieve their dreams!

We want to express our gratitude to City on a Hill Church for hosting an incredible Foster Care and Adoption seminar in November. They have been a longtime partner of our agency and a great collaborator in our foster parent recruitment efforts!

Are you ready to foster or adopt a youth in foster care? Join our Massachusetts Approaches to Partnership in Parenting training series beginning January 2022! Sessions held virtually on Saturdays from 9 to 12 AM.

Our latest Impact Report is full of stories about the adaptation, community and resilience that came out of our work over the past year.

This holiday season, you can help change the lives of those in need by shopping with AmazonSmile!

Sheila has made an outstanding impact on our Developmental Disabilities Program since joining the team in 2015. We are pleased to announce that this fall, she became our Developmental Disabilities Program’s first-ever Assistant Program Director!

Since 2018, Garaudie has been a dependable and creative staff member at Teens Learning Choices, our group home for young women ages 16 to 21. In her new role as TLC House Manager, Garaudie will be guiding TLC’s Milieu Counselors!

Heather has been an indispensable case manager in our Developmental Disabilities for many years. As DDP Coordinator, she will manage our Intensive Flexible Family Support Services Program and facilitate our new Family Support Center Advisory Council!

Earlier this year, we were surprised and amazed to hear that Louis, a six-year-old boy in our Adoption program, saved the life of his school librarian using the emergency skills his foster mom Veronica taught him.

Adoption matching events are one of the most effective ways to find adoptive families for children and teens. It was so exciting to attend our first matching event since before the pandemic!

Randi Souza, the Program Director for Putnam Place, is always organizing excursions like these because the opportunity to have fun and try new things is especially meaningful for residents in group homes!

This exciting seminar is for anyone interested in learning more about the needs of children in our community as well as the many opportunities to step in and support those impacted by foster care.

This November, every time you purchase a $2.50 reusable GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS Bag at the Star Market on Mt Auburn Street, $1 will be donated to us!

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