Company Profile
Company Overview
The New England Center for Children is a state-of-the-art educational, residential and treatment center for children with autism, and PDD, ages 3 to young adult. Curriculum components cover communication, academics, social and life skills, and employment skill development. A critical component of the success of our programs is the competency of our teachers, all of whom are college graduates. To learn more about the Center please visit our web site at http://www.NECC.org.
Company History
The New England Center for Children was founded in 1975 and is located in Southboro, MA, 20 miles west of Boston. The Center’s primary mission is to increase the skills of children, adolescents and young adults with autism and other developmental disorders through the use of applied behavior analysis (ABA). Serving over 200 children and young adults from 69 Massachusetts towns and cities, as well as 10 other states and 4 foreign countries, The Center provides comprehensive educational, residential and clinical services in a variety of day and residential treatment programs.
Many of our students, particularly those in our residential programs, display intense, chronic or seriously interfering behaviors including aggression, property destruction, and self-injury. The overriding goal is to help these students decrease their interfering behaviors and increase their ability to function independently. Toward these ends, we provide comprehensive assessment, individualized ABA programming, speech and language training, academic instruction, community-based activities, health care, student employment, adapted physical education, family services and more.
A critical component of the success of our programs is the competency of our teachers, all of whom are college graduates. We provide intensive training in basic behavior analytic techniques, and all teachers must pass a graduate-level introductory ABA course during their first months of employment. In addition, we are associated with two university master’s degree programs, Simmons College’s masters in severe special needs and Western New England College’s masters in applied behavior analysis. Both are 3-year programs with courses taught on site and research projects and master’s theses supervised on site by The New England Center personnel.
Benefits
VACATION: 2 - 5 weeks paid vacation per year.
HEALTH INSURANCE: NECC offers Harvard Pilgrim HMO, a Health Maintenance Organization provided by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England.
DENTAL INSURANCE: Delta Dental Plus Premier
FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS- MEDICAL AND DEPENDENT CARE: In addition to your pre-taxed medical and/or dental insurance premiums, NECC employees may opt to have additional money set aside money on a pre-tax basis to cover medical/ dental and dependent care expenses. Additional information is available in Human Resources.
LONG TERM DISABILITY: NECC provides long-term disability insurance at no cost to the employee. This benefit provides 60% of an employee's basic monthly salary after being disabled for 90 days.
BASIC LIFE INSURANCE: NECC offers a life insurance benefit of half an employee’s basic annual salary with a minimum of $10,000 to be distributed to the employee's beneficiary.
TERM LIFE INSURANCE (Additional Life Insurance): NECC offers life style insurance for those employees wanting additional life insurance for themselves and/or their dependents.
TUITION REIMBURSEMENT: Available to all regular employees who work at least thirty-two (32) hours per week. Initial requests for Tuition Reimbursement must be submitted in writing and addressed to the Executive Director with a summary of the employee’s intentions at least two months prior to enrollment.
IN-HOUSE MASTERS & PhD PROGRAMS:
SIMMONS COLLEGE and The New England Center for Children offer a Master's Degree and certification in Severe Special Needs. ?
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE and The New England Center for Children offer a Master of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis and post-master’s training program in Applied Behavior Analysis.
PhD IN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE (WNEC)
Effective January 2008, NECC and WNEC have joined to offer a doctoral program in Behavior Analysis.
CHILD CARE REIMBURSEMENT:
NECC recognizes that dependent care is, without question, an important factor in recruiting and retaining qualified employees.
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ON-SITE DAY CARE AND INTEGRATED PRESCHOOL: The New England Center for Children has an on-site daycare center and integrated preschool serving infants, toddlers and preschool children of employees. It is available on a full or part time basis. Drop in care is also available on a first-come first-serve basis.
Employees with children enrolled in the on-site day care center may elect to have their day care expenses deducted from their salary on a pre-tax basis, subject to eligibility and IRS allowable limits.
403(b) VOLUNTARY SAVINGS PROGRAM: The New England Center offers a TDA 403(b) Plan through ING (annuities and mutual funds). Employees may save up to $15,500, with special rules that may permit higher savings if an employee is near retirement or if an employee hasn’t saved the full permitted amount each year. The Human Resources Office can give more information on the TDA 403(b) Plan.
TARGET BENEFIT PLAN (PENSION PLAN): The New England Center makes contributions to this plan in addition to salary and benefits into an individual employee account. Employees are eligible for this plan after one year of employment and are guaranteed the investment when the employee becomes fully vested.
EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PLAN: At NECC, we have an ongoing service designed to help our employees and their families deal with personal problems which can affect work or home life. Participation in the EAP is voluntary, free and confidential. An EAP professional is available for staff to provide assistance. NECC believes that an employee's decision to resolve personal difficulties is a positive action and a way to take charge of one's life.
CAREER MANAGEMENT: The New England Center for Children strives to assist each employee with career planning and professional development. Many resources are available to help in career planning such as training courses, university affiliations and mentor protégé program. These opportunities may be accessed through the Human Resources Office.