By Sue Loring This journey we are on, it’s a long road. Sometimes it seems we aren’t making any progress. The Holy Grail – Progress. Sometimes it comes so slowly it is almost imperceptible. You work for days, weeks, months, sometimes years to teach your child a new skill or behavioral response. It becomes such [Read More]
Parents are the Change Agents – Thank you MFOFC
By Jaya Pandey As parents, we are everything for our kids, a friend of mine says –job description- cook, teacher, driver, cleaner, launder, planner, organizer, care taker, personal assistant, nurse and many more. I am sure you can add some more to that. Last 3 weekends I learnt a new term- we are “change agents” [Read More]
Tomorrow’s Leaders
Last week I was privileged to meet an extraordinary group of students at Ayer/Shirley Middle School. These eighth grade students participated in the United Way Youth Ventures program. Youth Ventures help area schools integrate youth-based social ventures into their curriculum, after school activities and special events. More than a dozen schools in the region participate, with others [Read More]
Finding Your Path, Finding Yourself
Evolution of a Leader Carrie Noseworthy has served HMEA’s Autism Resource Central, as a member of the Family Advisory Board for six years. Like many parents, she has the passion needed to make a difference. The desire to do that led her to taking an active role in her own community, in the region through [Read More]