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Image Ken Bates, president and CEO of Open Sky Community Services The study, which Open Sky announced Thursday, will gauge whether what's known as the Zentangle Method, which encourages participants to relax as they create their patterned drawings called tangles, can improve symptoms and daily functioning. The study, which will include Open Sky patients, will take place by video chat over a 14-week period and include those with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder. Zentangle Founders Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts are long-time supporters of Alternatives Unlimited, whic...

Open Sky Community Services to open in Whitinsville Community Content Open Sky Community Services Inc. will open the Blackstone Valley Family Support Center in Whitinsville in February, according to agency President and CEO Ken Bates.  The center will serve children and adults with intellectual disabilities and autism and their families. “We are very pleased to have been selected by the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services to operate this program in the Blackstone Valley,” Bates said. The center will operate at 70 Douglas Road in Whitinsville, the site of the historic Alter...

Behavioral health programs at Worcester's Open Sky Community Services have received top accreditation from the third-party group Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International, the nonprofit announced on Wednesday. CARF International awarded the behavior health programs a three-year accreditation, which marks the highest level awarded by the organization, according to Open Sky.  In notifying Open Sky of the award, CARF highlighted the organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the support it provided for frontline workers. CARF pulled responses from...

The nonpartisan Casper City Council on Tuesday welcomed four new members and one re-elected incumbent who expressed their hopes for the next two years, and said farewell to four others who expressed their thanks for the opportunity to serve. "My hope is that on council we may agree and disagree with one another as part of a robust productive decision-making process," new member Amber Pollock said before Mayor Steve Freel administered the oath of office to her and the other council members. "Second, is that we will be sensitive to the well-being and prosperity of our community and its citize...

By Brendan LaChance on December 15, 2020 Desirée Tinoco addresses the Casper City Council regarding missing persons in Wyoming on Tuesday, Dec. 15. (City of Casper, Youtube) CASPER, Wyo. — Citizen Desirée Tinoco told the Casper City Council on Tuesday that she founded a group called Missing People of Wyoming on Facebook about a year and half ago. “My main idea when starting this group was to spread awareness about [missing] people by sharing their flyers,” Tinoco said. “Now, over a year and a half later, I find myself in a struggle of trying to give advice that I am clearly not qu...