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DYS Education Initiative

Fourth Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference Held in Person

Posted on Friday, March 24th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathy Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: March 20, 2023

March 20th, 2023 – Norwood MA Today, well over 300 educators, community partners, clinicians, and professionals affiliated with the Department of Youth Services, or with the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) gathered in person at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Norwood for the Fourth Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference. The theme for this year’s… [Read More]

Massachusetts DYS Students Win National BreakFree Competitions

Posted on Monday, November 28th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathy Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 11/28/22

Collaborative for Educational Services’ Woody Clift, Director of the DYS Education Initiative, announced that several of the students in the program had created winning entries in two national competitions sponsored by BreakFree Education. Said Clift, “It brings me great delight to join our colleagues from across the state in celebrating several of our students and… [Read More]

Two members of DYS Education Initiative team receive 2022 DYS Commissioner’s Awards

Posted on Friday, October 14th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: October 14, 2022

Director of the DYS Education Initiative Woody Clift has announced that two of the DYS team are part of the annual DYS Commissioner’s Awards.   “Please join me in extending a huge shout out to our very own, talented, and distinguished colleagues Fiona Coker, Assistant Regional Education Coordinator in the Metro Region and Nicole Leontakianakos,… [Read More]

Excellence In Education: Living our Guiding Principles Awards – April and May winners announced

Posted on Thursday, July 14th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: July 14, 2022

The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the April and May winners of our regional Excellence in Education:  Living our Guiding Principles Award!  We honor those educators across the DYS workforce who embody one or more of the Guiding Principles including: College, Career, and Civic Readiness; Culture and Purpose; and Social Justice and Equity, central… [Read More]

CES Instructor Danielle Maco earns BreakFree Educator Badge

Posted on Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: July 5, 2022

As a Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) Instructor at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services’ RFK Girls Treatment facility, Danielle Maco had been using components of the monthly BreakFree Education initiatives with her students since the 2018-2019 school year. BreakFree Education, a national organization that partners directly with juvenile justice agencies, provides educational programs that… [Read More]

Third Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference Held on April 11, 2022

Posted on Thursday, May 5th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: May 4, 2022

Two hundred and ninety educators, community partners, clinicians, and professionals from both the Department of Youth Services (DYS)  and the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) gathered online on Tuesday, April 11th for the Third Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference. The theme for this year’s conference was Liberatory Education and the Whole Child: Healing racial trauma… [Read More]

CES continues its strong Partnership with BreakFree Education

Posted on Friday, March 18th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: March 18, 2022

The DYS Education Initiative continues its strong Partnership with BreakFree Education, a national organization that partners directly with juvenile justice agencies across the country, providing the resources, training, and networks they need to make school relevant and meaningful. DYS youth find these learning activities engaging and teachers leverage these interdisciplinary resources to teach across content… [Read More]

First Annual Excellence in Education: Living our Guiding Principles Monthly Award

Posted on Monday, November 15th, 2021 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Levesque, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 11/15/2021

Collaborative for Educational Services educators working with youth in the care of the MA Department of Youth Services (DYS) do tremendous work facilitating youth success across a range of outcomes. They do so, in part, by embodying the guiding principles that the organization has embraced in their work with DYS. To recognize these educators, CES… [Read More]

CES Profile – Paying it Forward

Posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Date: 01/30/2016

Jimmy Pereira, a former Department of Youth Services (DYS) student, graduated from college with a clear goal of becoming an urban planner in his hometown. This past year, he landed the job of his dreams as a Community/Transportation Planner at Old Colony Planning Council in Brockton. In his work, Pereira is developing ways for young… [Read More]

Moilanen named 2016 Local PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator

Posted on Monday, May 2nd, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: May 2, 2016

NORTHAMPTON, MA — Sarah Moilanen has been named a 2016 Local PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator, expanding her ongoing work with blended learning in education. Moilanen is one of four original Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) educators working in the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) Education Initiative that participated in 2014 and thereafter as fellows… [Read More]