BAMSI - News Notes

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EXTRA DISTANCE AWARDS
	BAMSI Extra Distance Award winners were recognized at the
Leadership Meeting on January 12, 2010 at Lombardo’s. At each Leadership Meeting, BAMSI Executive Management Team recognizes individual employees and employee teams to recognize performance in collaboration with others that fosters team spirit and demonstrates a best-practice model of service delivery. more...

BAMSI VOLUNTEERS
	BAMSI’s Executive Management Team (EMT) members
Don Zimmerman and Pat Algird participated in holiday preparations with Easton-based, My Brother’s Keeper who distributes furniture during the calendar year and gifts at the holiday season. EMT members worked side by side with community volunteers the morning of December 18, 2009 wrapping presents for delivery to one of the over 2,000 families from over 60 communities who receive donations during the holiday season.

BAMSI HOLIDAY PARTY
	BAMSI’s Annual Holiday Party was enjoyed by hundreds of BAMSI
partners, funders, staff and Board members the afternoon of December 17th at Christy Drive in Brockton. more pictures...

OPEN HOUSE
	BAMSI resident, Carlo Tolini celebrates the opening of his new residence
at 5 Shaw Road in Carver with BAMSI Chief Executive Officer, Anthony Simonelli, BAMSI Chief Operations Officer, Vanessa Tierney and Raymond Renaud from Stonegate Builders who built the property with funding from the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services and the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Nursing Home Initiative.

REFERRALS BEING ACCEPTED
	BAMSI’s Community Service Agency for the Brockton Area; an interagency initiative of
the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services, is now accepting referrals from all related parties for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance (S.E.D.) who require or are already utilizing multiple services or are involved with multiple child-serving systems (e.g., child welfare, special education, juvenile justice, mental health) and their families more...

CARF accreditation
	CARF International announced that BAMSI has been accredited for a period of three years for its
Community Housing, Supported Living, more...

bamsi awarded role of brockton community services agency

Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc. (BAMSI) has been selected to serve as the Community Service Agency for Brockton area and the surrounding towns to integrate the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI). The Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative is an interagency initiative of the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services designed to strengthen, expand, and integrate Massachusetts state services into a comprehensive, community-based system of care, and to ensure that families and their children with significant emotional and behavioral health needs obtain the services they need for success in home, school, and community.

The award will involve BAMSI’s Wraparound Family Services Division, and they will be adding a number of new staff positions and increasing services to Brockton area youth with severe emotional disturbances and their families from 50 to over 300.

Initially BAMSI will need Care Managers who will be Masters or Bachelor Level Clinicians with experience in human services related fields and Family Partners who will be parents or caregivers of children with SED who bring their experience in navigating community services for their children. These positions will be added incrementally over the next 18 months and prospective employees should check the BAMSI Career Site for more information as these positions come on-line.