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HATFIELD — The sun is shining on eight nonprofits in the Pioneer Valley this fall after a local family anonymously agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to install free solar power systems at each [...]

Clutter throws Bec Belofsky Shuer of Easthampton into a panic. She says the sight of the hundreds of boxes filled with stuff, from old toys to empty picture frames, furniture — including an old [...]

After graduate school in the early 1980s, I was hired as clinical coordinator of an outpatient methadone and counseling program at Cambridge Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University. Frankly [...]

NORTHAMPTON – The statistics about suicide are daunting: there is one death by suicide in the US every 13 minutes; suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds; the majority [...]

Imagine sitting in a therapeutic circle that includes friends, family, mentors, counselors, prescribers and the voices that are speaking from within. All have a say in shaping the way forward for [...]

AS MY SON’S LIMITATIONS BECAME CLEARER, I FOUND IT HARDER EVERY YEAR TO WRITE A VISION STATEMENT FOR HIS I.E.P. THEN HE SHOWED US HOW   How do you write about the happy life you hope for [...]

  Logan Katz, 18 months old, knows how to get what he wants as he finishes his bowl of applesauce and rubs his chest with one open palm. His gesture is intentional, and firm. It means [...]

Aerial Mehler grew up on the western end of Long Island, just a short train ride from Manhattan. So, in most all respects, she considers herself a city girl. Thus, when her family relocated to [...]

  After a difficult pregnancy three years ago, Thalia Ghazey-Bates of Northampton gave birth to her twins two months early. When the babies were finally able to come home, she and her [...]

Sue Stubbs called it “a fear-based choice.” She was referring to her decision to heed the advice of the retiring director of the small nonprofit she was then working for—the Hampshire Assoc. for [...]