Company Profile
Grow Associates,Inc
Company Overview
Grow Associates is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals with developmental disabilities reach their full potential, to live lives enhanced by knowledge, by friendship, and by work.
Company History
Founded in 1973 as the Randolph Occupational Workshop, the organization began by serving approximately 20 individuals in a former one-room school house.
The organization became GROW (Greater Randolph Occupational Workshop) Associates in 1996. GROW moved several times over the years.
April 1, 2014 GROW Associates closed its sheltered workshop, placing GROW in the forefront of the state-mandated movement to shift from piece work to fully integrated employment services in the community. GROW accomplished this 15 months before the state mandated deadline of June 2015, making us a widely recognized leader in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
GROW moved to its present location in Randolph in 2013. Today, GROW Associates is known as Grow. While we no longer operate a workshop model, we continue to provide quality services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, age 18 and older, men and women of all backgrounds. Grow’s caring staff foster an individual’s choices, life skills, community integration, and long term employment.
With an operating budget of over 5 million dollars, Grow provides a wide range of services. These programs include Community-Based Day Supports, Day Habilitation, Employment Services, Transition Services as well as Transportation. Grow serves over 200 individuals with disabilities from 24 surrounding communities.
Grow is expanding! The organization gained an additional 25,000 square feet for programming when it purchased its building in 2021. We are in the process of developing the space and expanding our services.