Franklin agency gets $60K for care initiatives
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Horance Mann Educational Associates' office in Franklin
Horace Mann Educational Associates, a Franklin service agency for those with developmental disabilities, has received $60,000 in grants for two new initiatives, it announced Tuesday.
In the cases of both grants, HMEA, as the agency is known, will be the lead institution working with others on new initiatives.
A $35,000 grant from the Tufts Health Plan Foundation in Watertown will go toward the foundation's efforts to use data to better track health care, particularly in aging. HMEA will use the funding to build quality measurements for health care, including benchmarks for agencies working with clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
HMEA was one of 15 agencies in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island to share $1.9 million in funding from the Tufts foundation.
A $25,000 grant from the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration will enable HMEA to design a career training program called Learn to Earn for unemployed or underemployed young adults with disabilities in southern Worcester County. The agency will lead a pilot program with the Central Massachusetts Employment Collaborative, UMass Medical School’s Work Without Limits program, and the MassHire Central Region Workforce Board.
The Learn to Earn program will develop and test models to prepare young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities for jobs in the food service and hospitality industries. Employer partners will include Sodexo, Cumberland Farms and Worcester Public Schools.
The program is meant to serve as a model for other regional employment collaborations.
HMEA supports nearly 4,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families in more than 110 Massachusetts and Rhode Island communities.
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