Decades of Dignity: How Adult Family Care Helps People Stay at Home and Thrive

Adult Family Care (AFC) is built on a powerful idea: that people with disabilities and complex medical needs can—and should—be supported to live in the community, in homes filled with […]

24 Hours of Care: Direct Care Workers Recognition Week

At ServiceNet, our direct support workers are the heart of everything we do. Last week, we celebrated National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week by highlighting the diverse work and [...]

Pearl Ambassador Program Enhances Pride in Downtown Pittsfield

BY BRITTANY POLITO iBERKSHIRES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Residents of The Pearl shelter have been cleaning downtown over the summer, creating a collective pride for the city [...]

Bulkley, Richardson, and Gelinas, LLP Supports Family Empowerment’s Back-to-School Initiative

With fall underway and students returning to classrooms, Bulkley, Richardson, and Gelinas, LLP has made a generous donation to Family Empowerment, a program of ServiceNet, to launch a new [...]

River Valley Counseling Center Secures $912K State Grant to Expand Supervision Capacity

River Valley Counseling Center (RVCC), now a member of ServiceNet, has received a $912,000 award through the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s Behavioral Health Supervising Clinicians Incentive [...]

‘The work will never be done.’ Community remembers loved ones lost to overdoses during Pittsfield memorial service and candlelight vigil

BY DYLAN THOMPSON THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,2025 PITTSFIELD — If you’ve lost a loved one to an overdose, it can be difficult to talk about. Julie MacDonald, program director [...]

Pittsfield’s day center for those experiencing homelessness, The First, nears opening

BY LESLEE BASSMAN THE BERKSHIRE EDGE MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2025 Pittsfield — It is all hands on deck as The First, a community resource center for those experiencing homelessness, nears the […]

Our Opinion: Pearl Ambassadors pilot deserves kudos — and continued support

BY BERKSHIRE EAGLE STAFF THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2025 As controversy continues to compound over a public camping ban proposal, homelessness and its downtown effects have received [...]

Meet & Greet with ServiceNet’s Carpentry Crew

ServiceNet’s carpentry crew recently finished up their most recent project, a brand-new bookshelf for the Hatfield Library, donated for the library’s annual Friends of the Library Book Sale.  The [...]