Brighten Someone’s Day, Every Day

Start on your path toward a fulfilling career in human services at the Charles River Center! Join our team of compassionate, hard-working and caring individuals that empower and support children and adults with disabilities and have fun doing it.

Full-time and part-time employees enjoy many benefits on the day you start. Essential benefits such as company-subsidized health and dental insurance and employer-sponsored 401(k) retirement plan with employee match are available with no waiting period. Ask about our new DSP Retention Program where we can guarantee a longer work week including overtime pay!

Employment opportunities are available in Residential Services, Day Services, Family and In-home Support Services and Administration.

We offer full time, part time and overtime employment opportunities, many with flexible schedules. 

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Receive a full benefits package on Day 1!

  • Employer-paid Life, Long-Term Disability, and AD&D insurance offered at no cost to employee
  • Flexible Spending accounts for both dependent and health care
  • Full-time employees receive 13 vacation days with additional increases after one year
  • Full and part-time employees accrue 48 hours (6 days) of sick time per year with rollover
  • 11 paid holidays per year, prorated vacation and holiday time for part timers
  • $1,500.00 in tuition reimbursement per benefit year for full-time employees
  • FMLA and Employee Assistance Funds available

Employee Spotlights

Goretti Poulard
Life Skills Coach

Goretti serves as a Life Skills Coach at the Grugan Center. As a Life Skills Coach, she works with individuals to achieve goals and to acquire skills that help build self-confidence and independence. Most rewarding part of her job? “The excitement I feel when I see the individuals’ faces in the morning. They each have their own unique way of greeting me and connecting with me.” Although she had never worked professionally with individuals with disabilities before she accepted the job at the Charles River Center, she spent a lot of time advocating for her disabled nephew, back in her native country of Haiti. She feels like that experience helped prepare her for the job she has been at for the past seven years.

For Goretti, it is immensely satisfying to help our persons served in any way she can, and she has made it a point to keep expanding her knowledge and to acquire new skills. She took a CNA course and completed all the coursework for MAP certification. This training has served her well – she was recently recognized for her response to a choking incident in one of our Day Programs. She acted quickly and professionally, performing the Heimlich Maneuver, thereby averting a potentially more serious medical situation.

Outside work, Goretti enjoys going out with her two children, aged 9 and 4. She is an avid reader and an accomplished seamstress. She especially enjoys doing sewing projects with her young daughter.

Thank you, Goretti, for your energy and enthusiasm. You bring so much to Charles River, and we appreciate your passion for improving the lives of the individuals we serve.

Lorvely Laurent
Residential Counselor, Marked Tree Road

She started as relief staff in the Day Hab, and then after four years, transitioned to our residential program. She has spent the last 11 years working at Marked Tree Road and has gotten very close to the gentlemen who reside there. Most rewarding part of her job? Just being able to help individuals with disabilities. When she was younger, she helped take care of her uncle who had special needs. She notes that this experience is what inspired her to begin her career at Charles River Center. Favorite part of her job? Cooking for the residents. She takes great pride in the fact that all four gentlemen have grown to love her cooking, especially dishes that are native to her home country of Haiti. “I try to make them happy – just like I’m cooking for my kids.”

Outside of work, Lorvely also enjoys keeping house and cooking for her own family. She has two young adult children, one who works as an economist in New York, and another, who is currently in college in Ohio studying business.

Thank you, Lorvely, for the care and compassion you extend to the individuals at Marked Tree Road. They are so lucky to have you!

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