UMass Boston lands $2.25M donation to start apprenticeship program

UMass Boston interim chancellor Katherine Newman has spent her year-and-a-half tenure on the campus trying to build a bridge between the school and entry-level jobs for students at Boston companies.

Baystate Business: Gaming and Racing

Developer Tom O’Connell describes proposed $300 million economic development project in Southeastern Massachusetts.

UMass Boston chancellor works to link school with business community

Columbia Point sits just a few miles from the Financial District and its gleaming skyscrapers. For many University of Massachusetts Boston students, though, those office towers can feel like they are half a world away. Maybe not for much longer. Not if interim chancellor Katherine Newman has her way.

Could Katherine Newman be the right fit to lead UMass Boston?

Late on Sunday night a couple of weeks ago, Katherine Newman was working late, dealing with a frequent concern at UMass Boston: lousy construction.

Report shows opioid crisis is costing Mass. workforce billions in lost productivity

The toll that the opioid epidemic is taking on the Massachusetts economy now has a cost in dollars: $2.7 billion a year in lost business productivity from employees who aren’t functioning at full capacity, and $5.9 billion in lost productivity from people who aren’t even in the workforce.

Somerville company offers free tuition at UMass Boston

Like many other bosses around here, Triumvirate Environmental’s chief executive, John McQuillan, is finding it increasingly tough to find the workers he needs. McQuillan, though, is taking an unusual approach to solving his problem: He’s offering to pay tuition and fees, currently about $13,000 a year, for undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Boston […]

Clinicians join police ranks as law enforcement takes on new mental health role

Law enforcement officials say the movement represents a dramatic shift for police officers, who have been increasingly on the front line of mental health work now that mental hospitals have closed in a nationwide push to treat the mentally ill in their communities. Now police officers are often the first people the mentally ill encounter […]

Insurer To Encourage Prescription Drugs To Help With Opioid Addiction

A multi-pronged initiative that Neighborhood Health Plan is announcing Friday aims to reduce the number of opioid overdose deaths by increasing access to treatment.

Five Questions With: Talita Guerrero

Talita Guerrero is the founder of Right Key Mortgage LLC in Lakeville, Mass., where she currently serves as a partner and senior loan officer. A licensed mortgage broker in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Georgia and Florida, the firm finances residential and commercial loans.

South Shore Mental Health changes name as part of rebranding

South Shore Mental Health has changed its name to Aspire Health Alliance in an an effort to highlight its focus on integrating mental and physical health, reducing the stigma associated with behavioral health disorders and creating alliances with community providers.

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