Local nonprofit organizations are addressing the need for direct care employees by raising wages for what they call a vital but often undervalued profession.

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One of the largest child-and-family-services organizations in the eastern U.S. has raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour for all positions in the organization, joining a number of other agencies who this year have raised their wages. Hillside President ...

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A Syracuse-based organization has assumed the operations of Hillside Family of Agencies’ mental health outpatient clinic in Rochester. Liberty Resources Inc., which already has a location on Humboldt Street in Rochester, on Monday transferred all of Hillside’s outpatient clinic staff ...

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Hillside Family of Agencies plans to discontinue services at its Varick residential treatment campus when its lease expires in March 2020. The closure will leave 175 employees without jobs. The campus, located on the site of the former Seneca Army ...

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A 27-year veteran of Hillside Family of Agencies has been tapped to lead the nonprofit agency. Maria Cristalli, who served as chief operating officer of the human services organization from January 2017 until July of this year, stepped into the ...

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Longtime Hillside Family of Agencies leader Dennis Richardson will retire in June, leaving a 24-year legacy of growth and nationally recognized services. Richardson joined the child and family human services organization in 1994, following a stint as executive director of ...

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