{"id":3860,"date":"2024-10-28T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/?page_id=3860"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:14:29","slug":"masstart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/shcn\/masstart\/","title":{"rendered":"MASSTART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Technology Assistance Resource Team (MASSTART) is a free Nurse Consultation program that helps families and schools plan for the health care and safety of students ages 3-21yo with special health needs, especially those with assistive medical technology, so they may attend publicly funded (in part or in whole) schools in MA safely.<\/p>\n<p>The program provides support to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students &amp; their families.<\/li>\n<li>School nurses and other personnel in publicly funded MA schools: public, charter, educational, collaborative, and non-public schools.<\/li>\n<li>Health, medical, social service, and other community providers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol><\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The MASSTART website (with brochure links at the bottom of the page) can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/massachusetts-technology-assistance-resource-team-masstart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts Technology Assistance Resource Team (MASSTART) | Mass.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regional providers can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/regional-masstart-providers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regional MASSTART providers | Mass.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last Reviewed: April 2, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Technology Assistance Resource Team (MASSTART) is a free Nurse Consultation program that helps families and schools plan for the health care and safety of students ages 3-21yo with special health needs, especially those with assistive medical technology, so they may attend publicly funded (in part or in whole) schools in MA safely. The program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21380,"featured_media":0,"parent":3565,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3860\/revisions\/3972"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}