The three-year initiative known as the Amherst Wellbeing Alliance will bring together community members, organizational and governmental stakeholders to create a community-wide plan for health AMHERST, MA — The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), in partnership with the Amherst Public Health Department, has received $375,000 over three years to complete a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) for Amherst, Massachusetts. The Amherst Wellbeing Alliance (in Spanish: “Alianza para el Bienestar de Amherst”) will engage the community and strategic partners, collect and analyze data,...
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Jun
2022
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Amherst Mobile Market begins third year on June 7th
June 7th is the opening date for the Amherst Mobile Market, a community driven, bilingual mobile farmers market bringing affordable, organic fresh produce to Amherst's food desert neighborhoods. Entering its third year, the market season runs through October 22...
May
2022
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Third Annual DYS Racial Trauma Conference Held on April 11, 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...
Apr
2022
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Healthy Hampshire Receives CISA 2022 Local Hero Award
Each year, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) honors a group of people, businesses, or partners who have made a positive impact on the local food system, through their Local Hero Awards. CISA has been working for over 25 years to build a stronger,...
Apr
2022
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CES Educator Licensure program provides supportive path to teaching
At the end of a busy school day, teacher Ho-Zhen Chen smiles as he reflects on the day with his 9th grade Algebra 1 students. “Ninth graders can be ferocious,” said Ho-Zhen, grinning. “So much is going on with them at this time in their lives. I love every...
Apr
2022
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Excellence In Education: Living our Guiding Principles Awards – February and March winners announced
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the February and March 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...
Apr
2022
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Educators from Collaborative for Educational Services Publish Book on IEP and 504 Teams
NORTHAMPTON — The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), a member of the Massachusetts Organization of Educational Collaboratives (MOEC), is pleased to announce that two of its educators recently published a book on the topic of Individual Education Programs...
Apr
2022
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MOEC Highlights Work of Collaboratives to Support Student Mental Health
ANDOVER — The Massachusetts Organization of Educational Collaboratives (MOEC) wishes to highlight some of the ways that collaboratives across the state work to support the mental health of students and staff. On March 24 and 25, more than 80 educators attended a...
Apr
2022
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Baker-Polito Administration Awards $600,000 in Grants to High Schools to Support Innovation Pathways
The Baker-Polito Administration awarded more than $600,000 to 22 school districts to help support Innovation Pathway programs, which provide high school students with opportunities to learn and gain experience in a particular industry through career exploration,...
Apr
2022
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Occupational Therapy Center develops new strategies
As Occupational Therapy Month begins this April, Noel Kesselheim, OTR/L, has thought a lot about how the pandemic has changed both the nature of the challenges for her clients, and the ways in which the Collaborative for Educational Services’ Occupational Therapy...
Mar
2022
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Excellence In Education: Living our Guiding Principles Awards – December and January winners announced
The Collaborative for Educational Services is pleased to announce the December and January 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...
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