Jan 25, 2023 | Inside Hillside, Success Story
This story originally appeared in Hillside’s 2022 Impact Report. Read the complete Report here. * * * Hillside’s path forward includes wide-ranging programs and initiatives that are shaping the future of the agency and its role in the communities we serve. “The needs...
Dec 1, 2022 | Inside Hillside, Success Story
Throughout his four-year high school career, Ethan DeMartinis worked as a volunteer in Hillside’s Youth Court program—and his commitment to the program’s mission has only continued now that he’s moved on to college. Based in Livingston County, the Youth Court program...
Sep 26, 2022 | Inside Hillside, Success Story
When she first met Shantavia Newton, Najwa Dennis was an experienced Youth Advocate with Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection (HWSC) at Clary Middle School and Corcoran High School in Syracuse. Shantavia was finding the transition to Grade 10 difficult: she had...
Aug 23, 2022 | Good Work, Inside Hillside, Success Story
For Alisa Burke, family is interwoven into a distinguished Hillside career. “I started here in 1988, after my brother was hired and he mentioned it to me,” Burke recalls. “I started off as a relief worker, and about two months later I applied for a full-time...
Aug 17, 2022 | Inside Hillside, Success Story
“This book is dedicated to the staff at Trahey, from 2015-2017, on the Monroe Campus for Hillside Children’s Center. It was at Hillside that I began to understand that life could be okay, if it wasn’t for my staff, I probably wouldn’t be alive right now.” That passage...
Jul 17, 2022 | Inside Hillside, Success Story
As the valedictorian of her Class of 2022 at Syracuse’s Institute of Technology (ITC) High School, Anjana Allay (pictured above left) has a lot to be proud of—and a lot of challenges that she had to successfully overcome. Just five years earlier, the 13-year-old had a...
