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Easterseals Receives Grant from Donnie Williams Foundation
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore is excited to announce it has received a grant from the Donnie Williams Foundation to support their Children’s Therapy services in Salisbury, MD. The grant will help meet the overwhelming needs of children, like Conor Pellinger, and families who are already receiving services as well as offer services to those waiting on the expansive waitlist. -
Easterseals Receives $1,000 from Del-One Foundation
Easterseals of Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore announced that it has received $1,000 from the Del-One Foundation for the 2019 Walk With Me Delmarva event. Del-One is the first Gold Sponsor for next year’s event. -
Easterseals Receives Continued Support from DuPont
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore recently received a grant from DuPont to expand outdoor programming by adding additional outdoor furniture for their Adult Day Health Services, which include seniors, veterans and adults with physical disabilities. The expansion will help promote exercise and socialization, as well as, the added health benefits for the participants being outdoors, including decreased depression and anxiety. -
Easterseals Participant Testifies at Joint Finance Committee for Higher Pay for Direct Support Professionals
Mikayla Buterbaugh, of Newark (formerly of Middletown), recently testified at Delaware’s Joint Finance Budget Hearing sharing her experience with Easterseals and pleading with the committee to ensure fair pay for Direct Support Professionals, who support adults with disabilities like Mikayla. -
Easterseals Offers Respite Grants to Families in Need
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore’s newest program will offer respite grants to families who are caring for a child under 18 with mental or behavioral health issues. The program is funded through the Division of Prevention and Behavioral Health Services (PBHS). The Child and Adolescent Caregiver Respite application period is open now along with their other respite grant programs. -
Easterseals Named in Top 20 Employers in Delaware in 2019
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore is proud to be named one of the top 20 midsize workplaces in Delaware Top Workplaces 2019 – a list of the best places to work in the state of Delaware. -
Easterseals Named in Top 19 Employers in Delaware in 2021
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore is proud to be named one of the top 19 midsize workplaces in Delaware according to the News Journal’s Top Workplaces 2021 survey. The list of the top places to work in the state of Delaware is based on employee feedback gathered through an independently administered survey. -
Easterseals Honors Long-Tenured Direct Support Professionals
As part of the observance of the 75th anniversary of Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the organization is celebrating “Direct Support Professional Week” by recognizing stellar Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) with the longest tenure in serving people with disabilities, seniors and their families. The DSPs were identified from each program in Easterseals’ statewide locations. -
Easterseals Honors Direct Support Professionals
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore is celebrating “Direct Support Professional Week” by recognizing several Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) for extraordinary work in supporting people with disabilities. The DSPs were nominated by their supervisors from each program in Easterseals’ statewide locations in Delaware. -
Easterseals Expands Services for Seniors in Smyrna
The recent ribbon-cutting for the new Easterseals day program in Smyrna brought together many families and local and state officials in support of the services being offered there for seniors and adults with physical disabilities. -
Easterseals Expands Resources to Milford
The recent ribbon-cutting for the new Easterseals Caregiver Resource Center at the Milford Wellness Village brought together families and local and state officials in support of the services being offered there for caregivers and their families. -
Easterseals Earns Highest Accreditation for Services
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore earned the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in a recent survey of reviewed services. CARF International is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body for health and human services that evaluates the quality, value and optimal outcomes of services.
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