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...
Sep 26, 2022 | HWSC, Success Story
In their 25 years, twin sisters Najier and Najah Johnson have done pretty much everything together. They grew up on the South and East side of Syracuse and attended Nottingham High School where, as ninth-graders, they became involved in Hillside Work-Scholarship...
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...
Jul 17, 2022 | Families First, Success Story
In fall 2019, Baldwinsville teacher Colleen Dembs was beginning the school year with her new group of first graders when she received a call that changed her life forever. Aubrey, a 22-month-old, needed to be placed in a foster home for an indeterminate length of...
