Program Highlight

• The agency was awarded a grant for ASCEND from the United Way Women’s Initiative. ASCEND (Acquiring Strength to Change and Empower through New Discoveries) models a national curriculum called Girl’s Circle, designed to facilitate personal growth in girls in areas of building trust and self-esteem, developing positive relationships, and reducing conflict. The program focuses on middle school girls and operates three times weekly to encompass Girl’s Circle, wellness activities, and dinner and fun!
  
  

Program Highlight

• Thanks to funding from the United Way of Southbridge, Sturbridge and Charlton, Inc., we expanded our Family Nights events at our Southbridge Family Center, providing fun and positive family time to over 400 participants.
  
  

Program Highlight

• Dynamy Internship Year students served more than 25,000 internship hours in the past year.
  
  

Program Highlight

• Wetzel staff raised nearly $40K to furnish its kids with a state-of-the art playground. After four years of golf tourneys, bike runs, yard sales, and other activities, nearly 50 YOU Inc. staff joined to build the structure in June.
  

Program Highlight

• Our acute residential programs delivered more than 24,000 bed days this past year.
  
  

Did you know?

• Our Training Department coordinated 870 hours of training in FY 2012.
  
  

Program Highlight

• In March, the agency recognized nine employees as the 2012 Employees of the Year.  They are: Kathleen Fleming (MIS), Adam Shaughnessy (Upward Bound), Jason Boyle (YEDA), Annie Fine (Worcester Family Center), Susan Zink (CHA), Kelly Sullivan (Pregnant and Parenting Teen), Kate Wall (Teen Parent), Deborah Sanborn (Oxford House), and Katie King (Worcester Family Center)
  
  

Program Highlight

• The EFE students contributed more than 250 hours of community service, working to plant, cultivate, and harvest over 5000 pounds of food for the Worcester County Food Bank.
  
  

Program Highlight

• 100% of latency youth (24 of 24) and 95% of adolescents (49 of 51) attended their school of origin while at STARR.
  
  

The Y.O.U., Inc. Creative Therapies Committee is excited to share our quarterly newsletter. Click on the links below to learn how programs across the agency are using these innovative practices!

Yoga, Aromatherapy & Other Sensory Tools

Music Therapy

Play Therapy

Crafting in Therapy

Writing as Therapy

Movement in Therapy

Art Therapy

Pet Therapy

Ecotherapy

Autism Awareness

• Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that perspective is even more amazing than yours.

  
  
  

• January 2014
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• March 2014
• May 2014