CES Stories

Local groups team up, offer forum to guide parents in supporting children’s mental health needs during pandemic

Posted on Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 4/23/2020

NORTHAMPTON — Local youth-serving organizations have teamed up to offer an online forum that aims to provide parents with vital information to support their children’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Teens, Tweens, & Quarantines” is a Zoom platform presentation for parents and caregivers focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on young people to be… [Read More]

After School Programming During the Crisis

Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 3/3/2020

CES began running 21st Century Learning Programs after school 20 years ago, and currently runs fourteen After School Programs in Franklin and Hampshire counties, including 12 programs funded by 21st Century Learning Grants, as well as two fee-for-service programs. These After School Programs serve approximately 750 students in total. As host schools closed their buildings… [Read More]

Focus on Teaching Students in Poverty

Posted on Thursday, March 5th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Date: 03-05-2020

Dr. Albert Mussad began presenting to educators about teaching students who experience poverty back in 2016, through his initial work leading the training-of-trainers component of Massachusetts DESE’s Leading Educational Access Project (LEAP) to improve outcomes for students in poverty. The work was a natural outgrowth of his deep focus on students at risk, and on… [Read More]

Resources for Social Justice in Education Work

Posted on Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services

In the spirit of Black History Month as a time to reflect and dig deeper into our commitments, CES would like to share some resources for those of you doing social justice and equity work in education. These come highly recommended by Safire DeJong, Ed.D., one of our Social Justice and Equity specialists. Their value will… [Read More]

CES After School Program celebrates twenty years

Posted on Thursday, February 6th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 2/6/2020

The first CES After School Program opened at Palmer Middle School twenty years ago. Today, Palmer is one of only a handful of sites in Massachusetts designated as a Demonstration level site, excelling in multiple areas of programming. CES currently runs thirteen After School Programs in Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties, including 11 programs funded… [Read More]

Back to school: Dual enrollment, early college programs a boon for area high schoolers

Posted on Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Christensen, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 8/20/2019
Link: Complete Article

HOLYOKE — College unaffordability. Increased competition for spots at prestigious local institutions of higher education. The inaccessibility of college. Decreased academic offerings at high schools struggling with budget woes. These are all challenges and problems that local high schoolers face. But a series of programs in the state are providing some solutions. For a high… [Read More]

Hilltown Mobile Market on the move in 2019

Posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Caitlin Marquis, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 7/16/2019

Chesterfield, MA – A new Hilltown Mobile Market will be opening this summer, thanks to a collaborative effort between Healthy Hampshire, Hilltown Community Development, the Hilltown Community Health Center, and several Hilltown farms. The Mobile Market—which will visit sites in Huntington and Worthington—will run for 10 weeks from July 25th through September 27th. Everyone is… [Read More]

STEM@Work: a unique paid internship program for high school students

Posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Alanna Flood, WWLP
Date: 7/19/2019
Link: Complete Article

Matt Rigney, Director of Alternative Youth Services at the Collaborative for Educational Services and organizer of the STEM@Work internship program for students in Franklin and Hampshire Counties, along with Hannah Nicolson, one of this year’s interns, joined Alanna Flood of WWLP’s Mass Appeal on July 19th to discuss the internship program. Nicolson spoke about her… [Read More]

Health care systems, including Cooley Dickinson, turn to a ‘new’ old medicine: healthy food

Posted on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Shira Schoenberg, Masslive/Republican
Date: 6/23/2019
Link: Complete Article

A few times a week, Katie Macomber, medical home care coordinator at Amherst Pediatrics, writes a “prescription” for patients and their families. Macomber is not a doctor, and the prescription is not for medicine. Rather, it is a form from the Amherst Survival Center, designed to look like a prescription, that sends families to the… [Read More]

HEC Academy holds graduation ceremony at Smith College

Posted on Friday, June 7th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 6/7/2019

Senator Jo Comerford (D) was the keynote commencement speaker at HEC Academy graduation services, held the morning of June 7th, 2019 at Smith College’s Sage Hall in Northampton. “Your education has been like a spark, and your job now is to turn that spark into a torch,” Comerford told the students. “Don’t let anybody tell… [Read More]