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Nonotuck Hosts Singer/Activist Alexis Raeana
Nonotuck Resource Associates was proud to recently host Indigenous model, singer, and activist Alexis Raeana as part of a month-long celebration of Native American Heritage Month at Nonotuck. Watch Alexis’s presentation below: About Alexis Alexis Raeana (She, Her, Hers) is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She is the CEO of […]
Native American Heritage Month: Listen and Learn
Nonotuck capped our Native American Heritage Month (NAHM) festivities by coming together as a community to learn, reflect upon the events we attended, and more this week.
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month 2022 with Nonotuck
This November we will be celebrating Native American Heritage Month. We hope you will join us in learning and connection as we honor the voices of Indigenous People. Nonotuck to Host Artist Nayana LaFond – Tuesday, November 15th at 1:00 pm The event will take place via Zoom and can be accessed here – Join […]
Native American Heritage Month: Exploring the Lands We Work On
Last year, we encouraged our community to explore what tribes tended to the land where we live and work through Native Land Digital. This year, we are recognizing each tribe whose land our Nonotuck offices sits on. Many tribes were forcefully removed from their lands and much healing can come from acknowledging those who came […]
Nonotuck DEI Committee Co-Chairs Honored
The co-chairs of Nonotuck’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee were recently honored by the Association of Developmental Disability Providers (ADDP). Placement Specialist Nichole Bourke and Wellness Coordinator Jannelle Robinson received the prestigious ADDP DE&I award at their Annual Membership Meeting in September. The DE&I award recognizes provider organizations promoting continued diversity, equity, and inclusion […]
Join Us for ‘Home is the Heart of Shared Living: An International Gathering’
Nonotuck Resource Associates, Inc. (on behalf of the New York Alliance for Inclusion and Innovation as well as its American and international partners) is excited to announce Home is the Heart of Shared Living: An International Gathering. This brand new event takes place virtually via Zoom on November 3 (10 AM EST to 2:15 PM […]
Nonotuck, Kripalu Team Up for Mindfulness
This past June four members of the Nonotuck community traveled to the Berkshires to attend an in-person RISE program at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Kripalu is a leader in yoga- and mindfulness-based education, dedicated to serving people and communities in realizing their full potential through the transformative wisdom and practice of yoga. Kripalu […]
Nonotuck Hosts Mass Rep. Gonzalez
Nonotuck’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee recently kicked off Latinx Heritage month with a special guest speaker, Representative Carlos Gonzalez. Gonzalez—a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives since January 2015—spoke to Nonotuck about the Hispanic community’s rich cultural diversity, how much we all actually have in common, the importance of education, why his heroes […]
Celebrate Pride Month With Nonotuck
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated every year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as […]
Nonotuck Earns CARF Accredidation
Nonotuck Resource Associates is proud to announce our recent 3-year accreditation by Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) International. From May 2-4, representatives from CARF reviewed Nonotuck’s service delivery through a Digitally Enabled Site Survey (DESS) in Host Family/ Shared Living services delivery [in both DDS and AFC services], in nursing and clinical services, […]
Ray Johnson on Shared Living: “A Family Affair” Part 2
Read part 1 of Ray Johnson’s shared living journey here. Three years after starting his life with Frank, Ray added Robert O’Donnell to the mix. Their story began when a neighbor who Ray did respite work for (and who lived with Robert) moved to Germany. In what was supposed to be a temporary situation, Robert […]
Celebrate With These Juneteenth 2022 Events
On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and told the enslaved population of their emancipation. That day – more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation – would become the oldest annual celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S., known as “Juneteenth.” […]
Watch: AAPI Panel
The Nonotuck community recently came together for a celebration of May’s Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month! Our own Saoling Chhit (Program Director, AFC Services, Northeast) moderated an AAPI panel again this year with several members of the Nonotuck Community including Samantha Chhrech, APD, Sochanviphea Loch, APD, Sokphearum Toch, CM, Manikol Ouk, CM and […]
Walto Wins ‘Unsung Hero’ Award
Nonotuck Resource Associates Care Manager Maggy Walto was recently honored with the William Johnson Unsung Hero award. The Berkshire Citizen Advisory Board presented Maggy with this beautiful honor on May 25th 2022. Due to Covid 19, the award ceremonies have been on hold for the past two years, Maggy has been long waiting for this […]
AAPI Month: How to Celebrate
May was Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, but we have ways to celebrate all year! AAPI Month is a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. ”Asian/Pacific” encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia […]
Ray Johnson on Shared Living: “A Family Affair”
To Ray Johnson, shared living is a family affair. Three generations of his family—himself, his mother, sister, and nephew—have shared their homes with people with disabilities over the past 30 years. While there’s some debate between Ray and his mother (Ruth Johnson, who worked for Nonotuck for several years in the 1980s and 90s) as […]
Doris Oyakapeli: Shared Living Caregiver, Life-Saver
When Doris Oyakapeli showed up for her job as a direct care support last month, she had no idea that she was going to save a life. Doris, who is also a Nonotuck shared living provider in Hadley, arrived at work at a community residence and began her night as she usually does: by checking […]
Nurse Appreciation: Lowell Office
In celebration of National Nurses Month (May), and National Nurses Week May 6-12 we asked our community just what makes our nurses so special. Sochanviphea Loch RN, BSN, Assistant Program Director of North Central AFC Services in Lowell, provided this appreciation. Thank you to all nurses. It takes a lot of passion and commitment to […]
Nurse Appreciation: Plymouth and Centerville Offices
May is National Nurses Month, and May 6-12 is National Nurses Week, and we asked our community just what makes our nurses so special. Jamie Finnegan, Program Director on the South Coast and the Cape, shared the below thoughts of appreciation for our nurses. Our nurses go above and beyond to support everyone around them […]
Nurse Appreciation: Northampton Office
In honor of National Nurses Month (May) and National Nurses Week (May 6-12), we asked our community just what makes our nurses so special. Dan Zimmerman, Care Manager in Northampton sent in the following thoughtful appreciation for Nonotuck’s nurses. National Nurses Month Statement Dan Zimmerman, Care Manager, May 3, 2022: Our Nonotuck nurses do so […]