FALL RIVER – Stanley Street Treatment and Resources, a nonprofit health care and social service agency providing services for people with risky substance use, was recently named to The Commonwealth Institute/Globe Magazine’s Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts ranking.
SSTAR ranked No. 84 on the list this year, the 17th year the Commonwealth Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to advancing businesswomen in leadership positions, has maintained the list. This is the sixth year Globe Magazine, part of The Boston Globe, has partnered with the group.
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In selecting and ranking the top 100, the organizations looked at revenue or operating budget and other variables, including number of full-time employees in the state, workplace and management diversity, and innovative projects, according to a statement from SSTAR.
As a women’s minority business enterprise, SSTAR has always been concerned about a healthy work environment, and consistently looks at how the organization raises up its staff and gives them opportunities to grow in their professional lives, the company said. SSTAR currently has just over 400 full-time-equivalent employees and 89 percent of its managers are women.
One of SSTAR’s most significant innovations last year was its Opiate Treatment Center. Through this offering, it has expanded its clients’ ability to come in and be assessed for the appropriate level of care on the same day, with no appointment or call necessary. In the last nine months, more than 2,000 people came to SSTAR’s Opiate Treatment Center and were assessed on the same day.
The company also offers social supports such as walking groups, nutritionists and family interventionists, all of whom work together to improve health. SSTAR’s Women’s Center focuses on domestic and sexual violence, trauma and marginalization of women. The center has continued to focus on how to meet the needs of women, especially since addictive disorders programs are most often designed by men for men, according to SSTAR.
“SSTAR prides itself on being an integrated primary and behavioral health care center that can look at and treat the whole person, and the whole family,” said Nancy Paull, executive director and CEO of SSTAR. “To receive this kind of recognition from The Commonwealth Institute and the Boston Globe is so affirming to our mission, and will help to bring even more visibility to the everyday health challenges so many individuals in our communities face. We are very grateful for this acknowledgement.”
Whilte SSTAR was not the only Bristol County, Mass.-based organization to make the list, it was the only health care organization in the region to do so. The other two Bristol County organizations to make the list were engineering firm Sensata Technologies in Attleboro, led by Martha Sullivan, president and CEO, which ranked No. 15, and direct seller Princess House in Taunton, led by Connie Tang, president and CEO, which ranked No. 31.
Rob Borkowski is a PBN staff writer. Email him at Borkowski@PBN.com.
