About
Empowering individuals with special gifts, and the people who care for them, to find their passion through community.
Empowering, encouraging, and caring for individuals with special gifts, needs, and abilities for more than 40 years, the Price Center of Newton, MA is a life-changing service agency that offers a range of extraordinary programs.
The Price Center’s programs serve many people across a range of abilities and reflect our commitment to maximize each individual’s self-confidence and self-advocacy along with their physical, emotional, and intellectual capabilities.
Our Mission
The Price Center empowers individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism to thrive in living, social and work communities.
Our Vision
We will be a model service organization in which individuality and choices for people shape the expansion, diversification and innovation of our community based services. Through collaborative efforts to provide excellent, flexible and creative services, we will meet the ever-changing needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Our Values
We respect individuality and value personal preference and diversity, cultivating compassion in all that we do. We promote personal and professional growth, encourage full participation in community life, and strive to exceed standards for quality and safety. We adhere to the highest ethical standards while utilizing resources responsibly.
Our History
Started by a small group of dedicated families for their children in 1977, the Price Center has retained its sense of family, community, and belonging as it grows and continues to serve special individuals with intellectual and developmental challenges. The Price Center offers Day Habilitation, Residential, Employment, and Community-based programs that foster self-confidence and maximize physical, emotional, and intellectual capabilities, while striving to help each individual live as independently as possible in the larger community.
The Price Center has continually expanded services and increased the number of people served through careful management of its resources.
- 2020: Initiated virtual and remote programming for all individuals
- 1977: Incorporated in Newton, MA to deliver vocational services to adults with intellectual and developmental challenges
- 1987: Launched a day habilitation program in Dedham
- 1997: Opened residential services in 1997, taking ownership of Humanity House in Brookline, MA. Added three more residences over the next decade.
- 2005: ASCENT (Advocacy, Social Skills, Connections, Empowerment, Negotiation and Transitions) program launched to offer after school care. It then evolved into an extended day service and social club for young people
- 2010: Piloted Work$mart, a program created to help special individuals acclimate to an office environment to prepare them for independent employment.
- 2012: Created the Community Based Day program to focus on community engagement beyond employment and the Employment Services program, to better serve individuals interested in employment and training.
- 2015: Purchased and renovated the 52,000 square foot building on Christina Street in Newton to bring all services in one location
- 2015: Added programs to meet the growing demand for services for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- 2019: Renovated 14,000 square feet of space to house the growing Community Based Day and Employment Programs
- 2020: Purchased a new home in Auburndale to accommodate 5 individuals
Our Impact
The Price Center serves over 180 individuals across all of our Day and Residential programs
Programming and services are specifically tailored to each individual we serve
The Price Center is on track to become a $20 million operation by 2028
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