Meet our DSPs!

In honor of Direct Support Professional Recognition Week, we're featuring DSPs throughout the week so you can get to know The Guild’s incredible staff members! Read on to learn more about two of our outstanding DSPs:

Norman Rutinwa, Teaching Assistant

Thank you for joining us on April 14th for Suitcase Stories: Voices of The Guild, as we heard four Guild staff share their experiences as immigrants to the United States. The feedback was heartwarming:

"Thank you for sharing such powerful stories. As a fellow African, I agree we need to share our stories for others to know and appreciate our differences."

International migration affects everyone whether you are a newcomer to the U.S. or a relative, friend or colleague of immigrants. How we view and understand diverse backgrounds is profoundly influenced by the stories we hear, as well as our own interactions with people from around the world.

It is easier to have your own bias, prejudice and categorize someone to an already defined box without hearing their side of the story. “You only know my name - which you even struggle to pronounce right sometimes – but you don’t know my story.”

Our 2019-2020 Annual Report is here!

You can read the report online  or download a PDF for printing and emailing.

In the report, you will find stories about The Guild and the COVID-19 pandemic, our commitment to social justice movements, how The Guild School is transforming, and employee achievement.

In the high-turnover field of human services, The Guild has invested extraordinary resources in recruiting and retaining direct care staff members, including raising base wages, adding retirement benefits, and providing premium healthcare benefits. The result has been the stabilization of The Guild’s workforce and a remarkable advantage of diversifying the team with recent immigrants who represent at least 24 nationalities of origin.

On August 6, 2020, CARF International announced that The Guild for Human Services’ adult and youth programs have been accredited for a period of three years.

CONCORD, Mass. — Responding to the impending closure of the Crotched Mountain School in Greenfield, N.H., The Guild for Human Services’ Guild School has launched an initiative to open three new residences that could serve up to 18 students being displaced from Crotched Mountain.

The Guild offers a continuum of services for youth and adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including behavioral, medical, and mental health challenges.

Guild for Human Services directors Mustapha Abdulai and Matthew Carmichael have been selected to participate in the ANCOR Foundation’s Leadership Academy, a two-year progr

The Guild School’s students and staff are featured in the 2020 catalog of playground equipment manufacturer Burke.

To empower each of our students to find their writing "voice," The Guild School has implemented an innovative curriculum to help them express their thoughts on topics of their own choosing.