About Us

Easterseals Massachusetts provides essential programs and services to children and adults with disabilities throughout the state. Our mission is to ensure that children and adults with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play.

Our occupational, physical, and speech therapists, assistive technology specialists, as well as our youth employment and transition teams, are experts in their fields and provide services in a wide range of settings.

Easterseals Massachusetts also has a passionate public affairs department, which actively advocates and participates in local disability policy, state legislation, and community activism to create maximum opportunities and fairness for all people living with disabilities. Learn More about our advocacy efforts.

History

Easterseals Massachusetts has been a leader in disability services for over 80 years. Since 1944, Easterseals programs and services have focused on everyone reaching their full potential regardless of disability or location.

Itinerate Model of Service

Easterseals' philosophy of service is based on an itinerate model, which means our specialists and therapists move around-often physically, but also within the content and skill they focus on with students or clients.  This model avoids being prescriptive and confined to any particular space, often resulting in a more reliable and flexible outcome for people's individual goals and challenges. 

Easterseals Massachusetts also focuses on being collaborative with public schools, day programs, and various institutions, making us one of the only agencies to serve all regions in the state!

Populations Served

Easterseals services help people of all ages with all kinds of disabilities -- individuals disabled through illness, accident, or aging, developmental, intellectual, as well as people born with disabilities.

Easterseals serves people at more than 100 sites in communities all over Massachusetts, including Technical and Training Centers in Boston and Worcester.

Where We Serve

Easterseals serves the entire state of Massachusetts. The goal of all Easterseals services is to help people live as full and independent lives as possible, right in their own communities. Our service model is itinerated and collaborative, meaning we contract with other institutions such as public schools, nursing homes, and day programs to serve the people where they need it the most!

Easterseals' supporters in Massachusetts include nearly 110,000 individuals, foundations, corporations, small businesses, and service clubs.

Community Events

Easterseals puts on many fun and inclusive events throughout the state of Massachusetts. Click Here for upcoming community and fundraising events!

Fiscal Responsibility

83% of all money raised for Easterseals in Massachusetts goes directly to serve people with disabilities in the Commonwealth.

Does Easterseals Have a Religious Affiliation? No.

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