Hillcrest Educational Foundation is a private not-for-profit agency that provides a range of individualized and comprehensive clinical, psychological and special education services for children, adolescents and families in Berkshire County, MA and the Northeast. The students served by Hillcrest in nonresidential and residential programs have complex psychiatric, behavioral and/or developmental disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorders, and a variety of high-risk behaviors.

The programs and services provided by the Hillcrest Educational Foundation are state licensed and certified, and Hillcrest Educational Centers, including Hillcrest Community Support Services, is accredited in behavioral health care by the Joint Commission.

The Foundation consists of three subsidiaries and one affiliate agency. They include:

• Hillcrest Educational Centers, Inc. provides therapeutic treatment and special education to children and adolescents with unique behavioral, health and learning needs in Berkshire County, Massachusetts and the Northeast. HEC campuses include a non-residential therapeutic day school, residential and non-residential autism services, and three residential treatment centers.

• Hillcrest Community Support Services offers a broad range of outpatient behavioral health care services, counseling and evaluations for individuals, families and schools in Berkshire County.

• Hillcrest Dental Care, Inc. is a complete state-of-the-art general family dentistry practice and the largest provider of oral healthcare services to MassHealth recipients and special needs patients in Western Massachusetts. Hillcrest Dental Care has two locations, one in Pittsfield, MA and one in North Adams, MA.

• Berkshire County Kids’ Place and Violence Prevention Center, Inc., an affiliate of Hillcrest, is a fully accredited Children’s Advocacy Center for child abuse victims and their non-offending family members located in Pittsfield, MA.

A top Berkshire County employer, Hillcrest has Administrative Offices located at 788 South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201. More information is available at www.hillcrestec.org or by contacting Katrina Cardillo, kcardillo@hillcrestec.org or (413) 499-7924 x114. Hillcrest can also be found on Facebook.

Our mission at Hillcrest Educational Centers is to facilitate the social, emotional, intellectual, and physical growth of our students through the development of new skills that will enable them to succeed in their home community.