Making Opportunity Count, Inc. (MOC) is the designated Community Action Agency serving North Central Massachusetts. MOC’s mission is to empower families to achieve economic security by eliminating barriers and creating opportunities.

Harbor Care - formerly known as Harbor Care, Keystone Hall, Southern NH HIV/AIDS Task Force, Healthy at Home, and the Partnership for Successful Living - is an innovative nonprofit community organization helping individuals and families of New Hampshire find solutions to many of life’s most challenging issues. We provide high quality housing and residential services, primary and behavioral health care, substance use disorder treatment, home care, HIV/AIDS care, veteran services, and supports to individuals and families who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our unique model of “housing + integrated care = success” allows us to provide the wide range of collaborative services people need to gain and sustain independence. Each year, Harbor Care provides integrated care and housing to 5,000+ New Hampshire community members statewide, with a focus on the Greater Nashua, Manchester, Salem, Antrim, Plymouth, Claremont, Keene, and southern New Hampshire regions. Our mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare, to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect and dignity. In Greater Nashua over the last 40 years, we have reduced the experience of homelessness in our community substantially. We have dropped rates of unsheltered homelessness and chronic homelessness. We have also achieved an effective end to veteran homelessness and homelessness among people living with HIV/AIDS. These incredible results are only possible because of our incredible network of staff, partners, donors, and volunteers.

The Mission of the Guild of St Agnes is to provide families with quality, affordable early childhood education and school age programs in a safe, nurturing environment for children four weeks to twelve years. Welcome to the Guild of St. Agnes, a long standing, educational, private, non-profit child care agency founded in 1913. As the largest early education and care agency in Central Massachusetts, the Guild serves approximately 1,600 children at 8 child care sites, 125 licensed family homes and 11 school age programs. All of these services are licensed by the MA Department of Early Education and Care and our Centers are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the premier designation in the United States for identifying high quality child care services.

Community Action Pioneer Valley assists people who have low incomes to achieve economic stability and security, and works to build communities in which all people have the opportunity to thrive. • We see people as the experts on their own lives, as individuals and families who have strengths and dreams, and who also experience barriers to their success. • We honor everyone’s right to live with dignity and to be treated with respect and appreciation for diversity. • We partner with individuals and families to develop the resources, skills, social connection, and resilience to be economically secure and successful according to their own values and hopes. • We partner with families and communities to grow raise strong and healthy children and youth. • We value workplace practices based on mutual respect, inclusion, transparency, and leadership development for all staff. • We believe that engaging people with low incomes in decision-making and the overall direction of the agency is essential to our integrity and success. • We are committed to participating in community development that assures that all people are housed, well-fed, warm, safe, and stable. • We value building collaborative partnerships to find community-based solutions to meet community needs.

Family child care social worker

To create and support lifetime opportunities in the community for individuals with disabilities and their families to reach their fullest potential by providing advocacy, education, employment, residential, and recreational services to enhance quality of life.

Since its founding in 1967, Sunshine Village has helped individuals with developmental disabilities, including those on the autism spectrum, lead rich, meaningful lives with thriving, vibrant programs. Each day, hundreds of adults and their families connect, learn, and contribute to develop life skills, enhance social skills, improve coping strategies, and increase their independence. With a main campus in Chicopee and additional sites in Agawam, Chicopee and Three Rivers, we offer a range of day programs and employment services. Our day habilitation programs are medically-based, yet delivered with warmth and creativity. Physical, speech and occupational therapies are incorporated into music, culinary, art and sport therapy programming. Each day we provide opportunities to develop life skills, enhance social skills, improve coping strategies and increase independence. Our employment services are built on five decades of enduring partnerships with businesses and organizations throughout the region. We help prepare individuals to work in industrial and commercial settings, where their contributions are valued and they’re able to experience the satisfaction of a well-earned paycheck, the camaraderie of a workplace, and a sense of pride in a job well done. As a nonprofit organization, state, federal and private funding are received to further our mission. All programs are accredited at the highest level by The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, CARF International (CARF). As an employer of choice in the community, employees enjoy generous compensation and benefits, including opportunities for leadership development. Sunshine Village enhances the lives of individuals with disabilities by turning small moments into great days-where everyone shines!

Allied Community Services, Inc. is a non-profit agency that directly services hundreds of individuals with disabilities, and additionally provides fiscal management services to thousands more individuals. Even though we assist thousands of people, we are like a family. We work hard together, and are committed to helping others. We also experience enjoyment and accomplishments together. We are a group of lifelong learners, who take our culture and commitment seriously.

Cutchins Programs for Children & Families has 40 years of providing uncompromising care not easily found in today’s health care environment. Our residential, outpatient, and special education services provide children and families struggling with the effects of trauma and mental illness in a sanctuary of safety and love.

Veterans Inc. is New England’s leading provider of support services to veterans and their families. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the organization’s single-minded mission is to be there for our veterans in their time of need. Incorporated in 1990, Veterans Inc. has helped more than 65,000 veterans in need and today operates offices and programs in all six New England states. In 2015, the agency was honored with the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans 2015 “Outstanding Member Award” in Washington.

Fitness Classes, Summer Camp, Pre School, After School

LUK, Inc. is a nonprofit multiservice agency dedicated to improving the safety, health, and emotional well-being of youth, families and adults. As a community based organization, LUK offers an array of child and family services through four regional offices in Central Massachusetts: Fitchburg, Boylston, Webster, and Worcester. LUK’s mission is to improve the lives of children, families and adults so that they can fulfill their unique and productive potential. For more information about LUK, Inc. visit www.LUK.org, call (800) 579-0000 or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Join us in building stronger communities, family by family!