Collaboration is Key
For Abbie Carey, a clinical social worker at CHD’s Pine Street Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic in Springfield, her favorite part of her job is the
A Passion for Helping People
Sarah Babbs Caress originally wanted to be a high school history teacher. “I took the long way around to becoming a social worker,” she said
A “Game Changer” for Foster Youth
Fran Cameron, a family caseworker for CHD’s Transition to Independent Living program (TILP), was recently recognized as a Game Changer at a Springfield Thunderbirds hockey
Local Labor of Love
Tylar Cooper grew up in South Hadley, where she now heads a CHD respite program designed to help individuals recover from mental health crises and
A Shepherd of Recovery
At a certain point in his life, if someone gave Daniel Regan a prediction that he would one day run a residential recovery home, he
Forming a Therapeutic Alliance
Katelyn Picard, LCSW (left), an outpatient and school-based clinician for CHD’s Pine Street Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic in Springfield, is with fellow clinician and Nicole
Proof of the Impact of Social Work
Laurie Brown, program supervisor for CHD Adult Mental Health-Springfield’s Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic on State Street, chose the field of social work because she had
Every Voice Counts
What prompted Debra Call, clinical supervisor at CHD’s Park Street Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic in West Springfield, to pursue a career in social work? She
“It’s an amazing career”
“I can’t see myself doing anything else,” said Jasmine Jones about the field of social work. Jones, a clinician at our Pine Street Outpatient Behavioral
A Nontraditional Support Network
Shaun Sloat is a caseworker at The Retreat at Hampshire Woods, CHD’s respite program in South Hadley, which provides a nontraditional, innovative, and individualized support