The Parmenter Foundation

Jane Quercia, Volunteer Grief Support Services Facilitator, Samaritans Jane Quercia, currently Samaritans’ Grief Support Services Facilitator, has been a Samaritans volunteer since 1988, the year after she lost a brother and close friend to suicide. While driving to the Cape, she saw a billboard about Samaritans and decided to try volunteering. For the past 34 years, Jane has continued her …

Debbie Whitehill, Volunteer, Wildflower Debbie Whitehill has been with Wildflower since the beginning and has played a pivotal role in the creation of Wildflower’s program model. She has continued as an active Board member for the last 18 years. As a professional social worker, she provided clinical support and referrals to families, and was one of the first to look …

Emily Cohen, Volunteer for Runway for Recovery, MA Driven by the personal desire to give back to a cause that dramatically changed her own life, Emily Cohen has taken it upon herself to mentor and coach a 14-year-old Runway for Recovery grantee, Athena, whose mother died from breast cancer. Emily has gone above and beyond for this young woman, as …

Dan and Joan Scott, Volunteers for Jeff’s Place, Framingham Dan and Joan Scott turned to Jeff’s Place to begin their healing journey when their son Danny died in 2014, at the age of 20. After they graduated from the bereavement program, they immediately turned their grief to action and kicked off years of volunteer support for Jeff’s Place.  Dan first …