Pernet Family Health Service

Pernet Family Health Service Pernet Family Health Service is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, DPH-certified home-health agency

Since 1955, when the Little Sisters of the Assumption started Pernet Family Health Service in Worcester, our organization has strengthened vulnerable, low income families with emergency assistance, maternal and child home health care, and family support. Our roots date back to 1865 and the wake of the Industrial Revolution, when Father Etienne Pernet, for whom we are named, and Sister Antoinette Fage, founded the Little Sisters of the Assumption to provide home-based nursing, child care, and homemaker help to overburdened factory workers in Paris, France. Their care lifted struggling families both physically and spiritually, laying the foundation for what is now a thriving global network of health and social service agencies. Today, Pernet Family Health Service in Worcester, Massachusetts is a Department of Public Health-certified home health agency, providing hands-on, in-home care for the most complex of maternal and child cases in the Worcester area, and early intervention services for children with, or at-risk for, developmental delays. We also collaborate with many governmental, nonprofit, and spiritual organizations to improve the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual health of 11,500 impoverished people a year, many of them infants and children. Every day our nurses, social workers, volunteers, staff and leadership team work to renew the whole person - physically, socially, and spiritually - in communities that lift each other up. Our mission, which supports the physical, social, psychological, and spiritual development of men, women, children, and families, resonates with that of the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Here at Pernet, where we view society as one large family, we work to promote social justice and human rights for all people, gradually improving society - one person, one family, one community at a time.

Did you know?We now have 50+ at-home daycare providers providing daily high-quality early education and care to over 200...
01/29/2026

Did you know?

We now have 50+ at-home daycare providers providing daily high-quality early education and care to over 200 children

So proud of Yildiz and the team! And we LOVE our partners over at Spoonfuls, Inc.
01/28/2026

So proud of Yildiz and the team! And we LOVE our partners over at Spoonfuls, Inc.

Spoonfuls works intentionally to source the foods our partners and end-recipients need most, working in collaboration with nonprofit staff, like Yildiz Laza of Pernet Family Health Service, to ensure recovered food reaches its highest purpose: to feed people!

Snow everywhere but we're seeing GREEN!In 2025, through our partnership with Boston Area Gleaners, we distributed 9,471 ...
01/28/2026

Snow everywhere but we're seeing GREEN!

In 2025, through our partnership with Boston Area Gleaners, we distributed 9,471 pounds of fresh produce to our community!

01/27/2026

Quick update:

With the snow, our main 237 Millbury St. building is still inaccessible, and our food pantry will be CLOSED today.

We expect to be open regular hours tomorrow. Thanks

01/26/2026

Quick update about tomorrow:

All our daycare programs will be open at regular time, but without transportation.

Our food pantry will be open at regular time 

With all this snow and cold outside, we thought we'd share some smiles from our daycare program from the past few weeks!
01/26/2026

With all this snow and cold outside, we thought we'd share some smiles from our daycare program from the past few weeks!

01/25/2026

Hi Everyone,

Our Webster Square Daycare Center will be closed entirely tomorrow. Please stay safe!

We LOVE quick youth trips to the Worcester Public Library
01/22/2026

We LOVE quick youth trips to the Worcester Public Library

WOOOOWWW!The owners of Lucena Painting , The Wolf Professional Painting, and Innovate & Renew Painting Finishes teamed u...
01/19/2026

WOOOOWWW!

The owners of Lucena Painting , The Wolf Professional Painting, and Innovate & Renew Painting Finishes teamed up, volunteered their Saturday, and completely repainted our conference room!

We LOVE it when businesses and their owners give back!

Thanks you!

01/07/2026

Good morning!

Due to the road conditions, there will be no transportation today for the day care.

Webster Square Center will be open at 9:00. Family child care will operate regular hours.

Thanks to these enthusiastic volunteers from UMass Memorial Medical Center for helping with our holiday program!
12/30/2025

Thanks to these enthusiastic volunteers from UMass Memorial Medical Center for helping with our holiday program!

Staff Christmas presents are ready to go! These turned out great!
12/30/2025

Staff Christmas presents are ready to go! These turned out great!

Address

237 Millbury Street
Worcester, MA
01610

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+15087551228

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