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.

Gone are the sterile white walls, replaced by large, evocative murals that greet students, staff and visitors to the Ocean, Forest and Neighborhood. Break rooms now bear the names of favorite animals. Welcome to The Guild School 2020.

Since her undergraduate days at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), Chelsea Parrott has wanted to participate in a Global Autism Project overseas trip to help support the development of a center or school for children with autism.

The newly created Student Council is already making an impact on the lives of Guild School students — both council members and the rest of the student body.

Since its establishment in November, the 18-member council has held an inaugural meeting, hosted a bake sale and organized an event: a festive holiday-themed pajama and pizza party that brought together students and staff on December 19.

To help enhance the quality of care for the individuals we serve, The Guild for Human Services sent supervisors to train with instructors from the Ivy League.

Where there were once blank walls in The Guild’s first-floor conference rooms and administrative areas, beautiful landscapes and other paintings donated by a local arts center are now hanging.

The Guild for Human Services is launching a new family resource library and is encouraging parents and guardians to donate books, DVDs, magazines, brochures, pamphlets and other materials to give them a "second life" for use by other families.

Donated materials should be related to topics like parenting, autism, behavioral health, child mental health, child psychology, Down syndrome, special education and transitioning into adulthood.

In early 2020, Guild families will be able to borrow materials.

Eunice Demezier employs a unique method to calculate how long she has worked at The Guild for Human Services.

“When I started at The Guild, my daughter was six months old,” she explains with a laugh, “and now she’s a junior in college.”

Thanks to the MDS Foundation, The Guild School’s dental clinic will soon have a new comfortable and accessible examination chair.

Through its Targeted Grant program, the foundation recently made a $2,000 gift to The Guild to replace the aging chair now in use. The new Galaxy dental 3285 X-ray exam chair is due to arrive any day.