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WWW.COMINGHOMEDIRECTORY.ORG Coming Home Directory 20 2 1 EDITION
A Directory of Reentry Services Available to People Returning from Incarceration to Greater Boston
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Dear Reader:
With generous support from the Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation (www.shawfoundation.org), Community Resources for Justice (CRJ) is proud to distribute this comprehensive directory of reentry services for previously incarcerated individuals in Greater Boston. The Coming Home Reentry Resource Directory is an effective tool to assist returning citizens, their families and support networks, as well as service providers, community leaders and government officials in establishing stability for people returning to our communities.
This Directory is presented by the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI) at CRJ. For more than 130 years, CRJ has been providing direct care and supportive services to society’s most challenged citizens. CRJ’s direct service programs range from residential homes for adults with developmental disabilities to programs serving at-risk youth and men and women returning home from incarceration. In support of CRJ’s mission, CJI provides nonpartisan consulting, policy analysis, and research services to improve public safety throughout the country. With our creative, collaborative approaches to today’s most pressing and complex social and public safety problems, we are committed to improving public safety and human service delivery in Massachusetts and nationwide.
At CRJ, we know all too well that the transition from incarceration to the community is a difficult time for returning citizens, and this transition affects their families and the communities to which they return. The needs of the population returning from prison or jail can present significant obstacles to achieving stability. Yet, there are many services and agencies in our communities that provide the assistance that can mean the difference between success and return to prison or jail. This Directory is intended to identify and describe these services and distribute this information to as broad an audience as possible.
The Directory is based on the great foundation constructed by the Prisoner Reentry Working Group, the original authors of the Directory. CJI took over production in 2009 and continues to build on the good work that has been done.
The Coming Home Directory website can be found at www.cominghomedirectory.org. You can search the Directory in a number of ways, get contact information, and download and/or print the PDF version of the Directory. Due to the costs of producing the printed version, updates will be published in printed form, annually. However, this website will be updated on a rolling basis. Therefore, please visit the site for the most up-to-date information.
For more information about our organization, please visit:
• Community Resources for Justice: www.crj.org • Crime and Justice Institute: www.crj.org/cji
Sincerely,
John J. Larivee Christine Cole President and Chief Executive Officer Vice President and Executive Director, Crime and Justice Institute Community Resources for Justice Community Resources for Justice
355 Boylston Street • Boston, MA 02116 617.482.2520 • Fax 617.262.8054 • www.crj.org • www.crj.org/cji Introduction
Welcome to the Coming Home Reentry Resource Directory.
This Directory is a compilation of services available to previously incarcerated citizens returning to or living in communities in Greater Boston. The Directory presents important information for returning citizens, corrections practitioners and policymakers, as well as those with an interest in accessing services for returning citizens, including their families and friends, volunteers and other service providers. This Directory is presented by the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI) at Community Resources for Justice (CRJ).
What is the Purpose of the Directory? The purpose of the Directory is to assist returning citizens – as well as their families, service providers and local agencies – improve their chances of success in the community by connecting them to services important for stability and success.
The transition from incarceration back into the community is a difficult time, and affects returning citizens as well as their families and communities. The needs of the population returning from prison or jail can present significant obstacles to achieving stability. Yet, there are many services and agencies in our communities that provide the type of assistance that can mean the difference between success and return to incarceration. This Directory is intended to identify and describe these services and distribute this information to as broad an audience as possible.
Who is the Directory for? The Directory is primarily intended to benefit the following people and groups: • Returning citizens • Families and friends of returning citizens • Service providers • Corrections practitioners • State and local agencies that provide services to people including returning citizens • Policymakers interested in criminal justice and social service systems • Researchers examining the services available to returning citizens in Massachusetts
How Do You Access the Directory? In addition to the printed version, a website of the Directory is maintained by CJI. You can access this site by visiting www.cominghomedirectory.org. Information on the site is updated on a rolling basis. The hard-copy version of the Directory is printed annually and is available in limited numbers on a first-come, first-served basis from CJI. Due to resource limitations, we are unable to fulfill all individual requests and we strongly encourage users to access the online version of the Directory as it also contains the most up-to-date information.
Directory Limitation The agencies listed in the Directory and on the website are not the only resources available. We have tried to include all appropriate agencies and organizations; however, some information may prove to be missing.
It is our intent to expand this list as more information is made available. To do this, we rely on the community of providers and users to assist us in maintaining accurate and relevant information. If you recognize inaccuracies about a service or agency in this Directory or on the website, or if you know of or are part of an agency you think should be included, please notify the editors. Update requests can be submitted via email or fax by submitting a completed “Agency Update/Addition” form located in the back of this Directory. You can also find copies of the form on the website by visiting the “Documents” webpage. The website is updated as quickly as possible and includes the most recent information available. The printed version of the Directory is updated annually.
The Directory is designed to connect people to services. The information for each organization in the printed version and on the website has been provided by the service provider or from the organization's website. The editors cannot and do not vouch for the accuracy or quality of the services available.
COVID-19 Alert: Please be aware that agency information may have changed due to COVID-19. Please contact individual agencies to double-check their information. Scan QR code to visit the Coming Home Directory website Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
EMERGE (Batterer’s Intervention) ...... 20 Table of Contents REACH Beyond Domestic Violence ...... 21 RESPOND, Inc...... 21 Some agencies may fall in multiple categories. The page numbers here indicate the primary category and the Education ...... 23 location of the full agency listing. ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) ... 23 Administrative Issues ...... 5 Annuity.org ...... 23 ASA College Planning Center...... 24 Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics Asian-American Civic Association ...... 24 (RVRS) ...... 5 Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) Adult ProCon.org: Voting Rights ...... 5 Education ...... 25 Registry Division, City of Boston ...... 6 Boston Public Schools: Adult Education Programs ...... 26 Secretary of the Commonwealth, Elections Division ..... 6 Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) ...... 27 Social Security Administration (SSA) ...... 7 Cambridge Center for Adult Education ...... 27 Social Security: Benefits After Incarceration ...... 8 Cambridge Public Library ...... 28 The Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens...... 8 Charlestown Adult Education Program ...... 28 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office College Bound Dorchester ...... 29 of Child Support Enforcement ...... 8 Community Learning Center ...... 29 Upsolve ...... 9 Jamaica Plain Community Center, Adult Learning Work Opportunity Tax Credit, U.S. Department of Labor Program ...... 29 ...... 9 John Jay College Institute For Justice And Opportunity 30 Clothing ...... 10 Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts – Boston ...... 30 Boomerangs ...... 10 On with Living and Learning, Inc. (OWLL) ...... 31 Dress for Success Boston ...... 10 Prison Book Program ...... 31 Garment District ...... 10 Roxbury Community College...... 32 Goodwill ...... 10 Somerville Center for Adult Learning Experiences Salvation Army Family Thrift Stores ...... 11 (SCALE) ...... 32 Solutions at Work ...... 11 Suffolk County Community Corrections Center (CCC).. 32 Urban Renewals ...... 12 The Bridge Program ...... 32 CORI ...... 13 United South End Settlements ...... 33 CORI & Re-Entry Project: Greater Boston Legal Services Urban College of Boston ...... 33 ...... 13 X-Cel Education ...... 34 Legal Services Center CORI Sealing Initiative ...... 14 YouthBuild Boston ...... 34 Massachusetts Department of Criminal Justice YW Boston ...... 35 Information Services-CORI Unit ...... 14 Emergency Assistance ...... 36 MassLegalHelp ...... 14 Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee ...... 36 Out For Good, Inc...... 15 City Mission: Homelessness Prevention...... 36 Disability ...... 16 Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc...... 16 (DTA) ...... 36 Disability Law Center ...... 16 North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) ...... 17 (NSC) ...... 38 New England Index: Information on Disabilities St. Francis House ...... 38 Exchange ...... 17 The Salvation Army – Boston South End Corps The Federation for Children with Special Needs ...... 17 Community Center ...... 39 Domestic Violence ...... 19 Employment ...... 41 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's (BIDMC) Center Community Work Services (CWS) ...... 41 for Violence Prevention and Recovery (CVPR) ...... 19 Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation . 41 Casa Myrna ...... 19 Haley House Transitional Employment Program ...... 42 Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE) ...... 20 InnerCity Weightlifting (ICW) ...... 42 1
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Just-A-Start Corporation ...... 42 Roxbury Multi-Service Center ...... 61 MassHire Boston Career Center ...... 44 Roxbury Youthworks, Inc...... 62 New England Culinary Arts Training ...... 44 The Home for Little Wanderers ...... 62 Project Place ...... 45 Food ...... 64 SNAP Path to Work ...... 46 American Red Cross: Boston Food Pantry ...... 64 Straight Ahead Ministries ...... 47 Brookline Food Pantry ...... 64 STRIVE – Boston Employment Services, Inc...... 47 Community Servings ...... 65 Successful Release ...... 47 East End House: Emergency Food Program ...... 65 Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts ...... 48 Food Not Bombs ...... 65 YMCA Training, Inc...... 49 Fuel Assistance ...... 67 Youth Options Unlimited (YOU) Boston ...... 49 City of Cambridge Fuel Assistance Program/DHSP ...... 67 Faith-Based Organizations ...... 50 Hotlines ...... 68 Arlington Street Church Friday Night Supper ...... 50 Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence ...... 68 Berea Seventh Day Adventist...... 50 Foodsource Hotline – Project Bread ...... 68 Bethel Baptist Church ...... 50 Massachusetts Child Abuse Emergency Line ...... 68 Brighton Allston Congregational Church: Thrift Shop and Massachusetts Substance Use Helpline ...... 69 Food Pantry ...... 50 National Domestic Violence Hotline ...... 69 Cathedral Church of St. Paul ...... 51 National Sexual Assault Hotline ...... 69 Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston ...... 51 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline ...... 69 Centro Comunitário Vida Nova ...... 52 Rape Crisis Hotline – Pathways for Change ...... 69 Common Cathedral (Ecclesia Ministries, Inc.) ...... 52 Registrants and Families Support Line ...... 70 Faith Lutheran Church: Faith Kitchen ...... 53 SafeLink ...... 70 First Church in Cambridge ...... 53 Samaritans ...... 70 First Parish Church: Tuesday Meals Program ...... 53 Stop It Now! Helpline ...... 71 Greater Love Tabernacle, Inc...... 53 United Way’s 211 Helpline...... 71 Harvard Square Churches Meal Program ...... 54 Harvest on Vine by St. Mary-St. Catherine of Siena Housing ...... 72 Brooke House ...... 72 Parish ...... 54 Foundation House...... 72 Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church ...... 54 Haley House ...... 72 Loaves and Fishes, First Korean Church ...... 54 Hearth ...... 73 Massachusetts Ave. Baptist Church: Project MANNA .. 55 HomeStart, Inc...... 73 Paulist Center ...... 55 House of Hope, Inc. – Lowell...... 74 Pilgrim Church ...... 55 HousingWorks ...... 74 Saint Cecilia Parish ...... 55 Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community St. James Helping Hands Food Pantry ...... 56 Development (DHCD)...... 75 Weekend Emergency Food Pantry – Church of the McGrath House ...... 76 Covenant ...... 56 Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation ...... 76 Families ...... 57 Somerville Homeless Coalition...... 76 365Dad Inc...... 57 Victory Programs Inc...... 77 FamilyAid Boston ...... 57 Fathers’ Uplift Inc...... 57 Legal ...... 78 American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Institute for Health and Recovery – Project Promise ... 58 (ACLUM)...... 78 John F. Kennedy Family Services Center ...... 58 Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services ...... 78 Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House ...... 59 De Novo: Center for Justice and Healing...... 79 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Eastern Regional Legal Intake (ERLI) ...... 80 Children (MSPCC) ...... 59 Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) ...... 80 Parenting Journey ...... 60 Health Law Advocates ...... 82 Project Hope ...... 60 Lawyers Clearinghouse ...... 82 2
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Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Fenway Health ...... 101 ...... 83 Harbor Health ...... 102 Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center ...... 102 (MCAD) ...... 83 Justice Resource Institute (JRI)...... 103 Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) ...... 84 La Alianza Hispana ...... 103 Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee ...... 84 Lamour Clinic Health Institute ...... 103 National Lawyers Guild: Lawyer Referral Service (Mass. Louis D. Brown Peace Institute ...... 103 Chapter) ...... 84 Multicultural AIDS Coalition ...... 104 Public Counsel Services, Roxbury Defenders Unit ...... 85 Network of Care (Massachusetts) ...... 104 Volunteer Lawyers Project ...... 85 Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts ...... 105 WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law Spectrum Health Systems ...... 105 School ...... 85 The Dimock Center ...... 106 Women’s Prison and Re-Entry Project ...... 86 Therapy Matcher ...... 106 LGBTQ+ ...... 87 Upham’s Corner Health Center ...... 107 GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) ...... 87 Whittier Street Health Center ...... 107 The Network – La Red ...... 87 Sex Offenders ...... 109 Tiffany Club of New England ...... 88 Boston Release Network ...... 109 Older Adults ...... 89 CPCS-Alternative Commitment & Registration Support Age Strong Commission ...... 89 Unit ...... 109 Boston ElderINFO ...... 89 Institution for Sexual Wellness ...... 109 Boston Senior Home Care ...... 89 Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Ecumenical Social Action Committee (ESAC) ...... 90 Abusers (MATSA) ...... 109 Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA)...... 90 New England Forensic Associates ...... 109 Senior Centers & Council on Aging (COA) ...... 90 Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) ...... 110 South Boston Neighborhood House & Senior Center .. 91 Shelters ...... 111 Veronica B. Smith Senior Center ...... 91 Bristol Lodge Men’s Shelter ...... 111 Other Groups ...... 92 Bristol Lodge Women’s Shelter ...... 111 Back On My Feet Boston ...... 92 Father Bill’s Place ...... 111 Boston Project Rebound Reentry Services ...... 92 Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS)...... 112 Boston Rescue Mission ...... 92 Heading Home ...... 112 Bridge Over Troubled Waters ...... 93 Pine Street Inn ...... 112 Cambridge Multi-Service Center ...... 94 Substance Use ...... 114 Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department ... 94 Adcare Treatment Centers ...... 114 Parole Regional Reentry Centers ...... 95 Alcoholics Anonymous ...... 114 Roca, Inc...... 95 Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Office Union of Minority Neighborhoods ...... 96 Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) ...... 114 Physical and Mental Health...... 97 Casa Esperanza, Inc...... 115 AIDS Action Committee ...... 97 CASPAR, Inc...... 115 Barbara McInnis House (BHCHP) ...... 97 Gavin Foundation...... 116 Bay Cove Human Services ...... 97 Hope House ...... 116 Bay State Community Services ...... 98 Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) ...... 116 Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) ...... 99 New England Region of Narcotics Anonymous ...... 118 Boston Health Care for the Homeless; Jean Yawkey Right Turn ...... 118 Place ...... 99 Steppingstone Incorporated ...... 118 Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) ...... 99 Support Groups ...... 120 Bowdoin Street Health Center ...... 100 Cambridge Sharing Circle ...... 120 Department of Mental Health and Forensic Services 101 Gamblers Anonymous...... 120 Elizabeth Stone House ...... 101 Parents Helping Parents of Massachusetts ...... 120 3
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Transportation ...... 122 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ...... 122 Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation, Registry of Motor Vehicles Division (RMV) ...... 122 Veterans ...... 124 Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services..... 124 New England Center and Home for Veterans ...... 124 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, IRIS ...... 125 V.A. Boston Healthcare System for Women Veterans 125 Veterans Legal Services ...... 127
Women ...... 128
Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women
(CCSW) ...... 128
Mothers for Justice and Equality ...... 128
New Beginnings Re-Entry Services (NBRS) ...... 129
On The Rise, Inc...... 129
Rosie’s Place ...... 130
St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children ...... 130
The Cambridge Women’s Center ...... 131
The Women’s Center ...... 131
Women’s Lunch Place ...... 132
Women’s Transition Program, SMOC ...... 132
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Administrative Issues size envelope. The cost is $32 per record. Allow 20-30 business days for the record to be processed. 365DAD INC. The cost for expedited mail service is $42 for each See in Category: Families certified copy. Address your envelope to the attention Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee of “Expedited Mail Service.” Your order will be See in Category: Emergency Assistance processed within seven to ten business days of receipt. City Mission: Homelessness Prevention You may also request certified copies of records by See in Category: Emergency Assistance telephone, internet, and fax. These service options are provided by VitalChek Network, Inc., an independent Legal Services Center CORI Sealing Initiative company that the Registry has partnered with to See in Category: CORI provide these options. An additional fee is charged by Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) VitalChek for using this service (in addition to the fees See in Category: Substance Use described below), and all major credit cards are accepted. Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation, Registry of Motor Vehicles Division (RMV) You will need to supply the information indicated above See in Category: Transportation and have a valid credit card if you choose to use any of the options listed below. Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics (RVRS) The cost for any of the following order formats is $50, 150 Mt. Vernon Street, 1st Floor and each additional copy of the same record is $42. Dorchester, MA 02125 Orders will be processed within seven to ten business Phone: 617-740-2600 days of receipt. For an additional charge of $18.50 your [email protected]; order can be shipped next day delivery or for an www.mass.gov/orgs/registry-of-vital-records-and- additional charge of $11.50 your order can be shipped statistics second day delivery. Services: The Registry collects, processes, corrects, and By Telephone: Place your order by calling: (617) 740- issues copies of birth, death, and marriage records that 2606 occur in Massachusetts. By Internet: Submit an order through the VitalChek To obtain a copy of a birth, death, or marriage website: certificate you must have the subject’s name, date of www.vitalchek.com/massachusetts-express-vital- event, and Massachusetts town or city in which the records.aspx event took place. If your parents were not married, you By Fax Place your order by faxing the FAX Order Form to must have a picture ID. To obtain a birth certificate you this number: 1-866-550-2067 will also need your parents’ full names including mother’s maiden name. Note that ONLY CERTIFIED Service hours: M - F: 8:45am - 4:45pm (RVRS Office) COPIES of records are issued by the Registry of Vital Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department Records and Statistics. You can obtain a certified copy in See in Category: Other Groups the following ways: North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center In Person: Go to the address above with required (NSC) documentation in hand. The cost is $20 per record. (The See Category: Emergency Assistance office is located next to the Bayside Expo Center, in the Bayside Office Center) ProCon.org: Voting Rights [email protected]; By Mail: Complete a Mail Order Form (available on the https://felonvoting.procon.org/ Registry website) to the above address with a check or Services: Ex-offender voting restrictions in money order payable to “The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Individuals incarcerated for a felony Massachusetts” in a stamped self-addressed, business- conviction are ineligible to vote. Voting rights are
5 Administrative Issues Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org automatically restored upon release from prison, and If you are looking for a birth, marriage, or death record people on parole or probation can vote in that took place outside of Boston, contact that city or Massachusetts. For more information, town directly. visit: https://felonvoting.procon.org/ Service Hours: M-F 9am – 4pm Ex-offenders should re-register to vote. To register, visit link below. Other Locations: See Massachusetts Registry of Vital To check on your voting eligibility and/or register to Records and Statistics listing vote*: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ovr/ Waiting time: Delivery usually takes about 2 weeks Languages: Offered in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Khmer Secretary of the Commonwealth, Elections Division Cost: None McCormack Building One Ashburton Place, Room 1705 Registry Division, City of Boston Boston, MA 02108 One City Hall Square, Room 213 Toll-free: 1-800-462-VOTE (8683) Boston, MA 02201 Phone: 617-727-2828; Fax : 617-742-3238 Phone: 617-635-4175; Fax: 617-635-3775 [email protected]; www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ [email protected]; www.boston.gov/registry Who to Contact: Boston Registrar for Birth, Death and Services: Voter Registration Information Marriage Anyone can vote who is: Services: COVID-19 Instructions: During COVID-19 the • 18 years or older on Election Day (and who has Registry Division does not have in-person options – met registration deadlines detailed below) Online and by Mail only. Please see the website for • A resident of Massachusetts updates. Also the Registry Division has online options • A U.S. citizen for Boston birth, death and marriage records $14.56 • Not currently incarcerated for a felony with a credit card. Incarcerated persons who have been convicted of a felony are prohibited from voting for any office (local, The Registry Division maintains records for all births, state or federal) in the Commonwealth of marriages, and deaths for the City of Boston. If you Massachusetts. Persons who are no longer incarcerated were born in Boston you can obtain a birth certificate or who are in prison awaiting trial or who have been (or replacement certificate) by visiting the office in convicted of a misdemeanor may register to vote. person or by mailing in a request. You must register at least 20 days before all primaries In Person: The Registry is located in Room 213 in City and elections. Hall (2nd floor.) The cost is $12.00 per certificate payable by cash, check, money order, credit or debit To register in person: Go to your city or town hall card. If the parents were not married at the time of the election department or clerk’s office. You can also child’s birth, the record is restricted to only those listed register at one of several state offices, including the MA on the birth record and will require a valid ID. All copies Department of Transitional Assistance, MA are certified. A research fee of $10.00 applies to records Rehabilitation Commission and the Registry of Motor dated prior to 1870. Vehicles. You will be asked to complete an affidavit of registration, which must be answered truthfully under By Mail: You can also request that a certificate be the penalty of perjury. The questions on the affidavit mailed to you. You should print and complete a request will include your name, residence and date of birth. form (found on the website), a photo copy of your ID and a self-addressed stamped envelope. The fee is To register by mail: To obtain a mail-in registration form $14.00 per copy. Payment may be made by check or please call 617-727-2828 or 1-800-462-VOTE and a form money order only, payable to the City of Boston. Do not will be sent to you. Or, you can download a MA Voter send cash through the mail. Delivery usually takes about Registration form at: 3-4 weeks. www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleifv/howreg.htm Mail the completed form to your local city or town hall. You should receive a confirmation notice in 2 to 3 6 Administrative Issues Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org weeks. If you do not, please contact your local election adults; Child’s benefits; Parents benefits; and office to verify your voting status. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) • If you are registering to vote for the first time in Get extra help with Medicare prescription drug Massachusetts you will need to send in a copy of your costs • identification with your voter registration form. Appeal a disability decision Acceptable identification must include your name and To apply for a replacement or a new Social Security card the address at which you are registered to vote, for and you are a U.S. citizen, you must complete Form SS- example: a current and valid driver’s license, photo 5: Application for a Social Security Card. This form is identification, current utility bill, bank statement, available from a Social Security office or you can paycheck, government check, or other government download it from the website. The form requires your document showing your name and address. mailing address, your date of birth, place of birth, and a daytime telephone number. The form also requests the Previously registered: Contact your local City or Town names of your mother and father and their social Clerk to see if your old registration is still valid. If your security numbers, however, this information is not address has changed to a new city or town, you must required unless you are under 18 years old. You must register again. If you have moved within your city or complete and sign the form in Black or Blue ink. town, you must notify the Election Department. To complete the application for a replacement card, you Non-English speaking: May register to vote. Ask for will need picture identification and must know your assistance when registering. Social Security number. Replacements are limited to 3 Homeless people: Have the right to vote even if they per year and 10 per lifetime. are living on the street and do not have a street Non-U.S. citizens must complete the requirements address. The Registration Form has a space for drawing above and in addition, must provide documents proving a diagram of the streets where homeless sleep. Call the immigration status and work eligibility. office of the Secretary of State at 617-727-2828 if Staff will accept DOC Discharge papers as proof of problems arise during registration. identity when applying for disability; it should be the Persons in prison who have NOT been convicted of a original, not a copy. DOC Discharge papers are not felony, awaiting trial or convicted of a misdemeanor, accepted as identification for obtaining a replacement can vote by Absentee Ballot and these ballots can be card. Forms and other information are available on the obtained for them by friends or family. For the address, website listed above. use last place of residence in Massachusetts. Service hours: Office hours vary on location; see Other Locations Service hours: M - F 8am - 5pm (Contact local town/city election dept. for local hours) Other Locations: Cambridge/Somerville: Requirements & Restrictions: See Voter Registration 10 Fawcett Street, 1st Floor, 02138 Information in the Services section. M, T, Th, F: 9am – 4pm; Th: 9am – 12pm Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese Downtown Boston: Social Security Administration (SSA) O’Neill Federal Building, 10 Causeway St., Room 148, Phone: 1-800-772-1213 02222 (next to the TD Banknorth Garden) TTY: 1-800-325-0778 M, T, Th, F: 9am – 4pm; W: 9am – 12pm www.ssa.gov/ Dorchester: Services: Top Services include: 115 Freeport St., 02122 M, T, Th, F: 9am – 4pm; W: 9am – 12pm • Get or replace a Social Security card • Apply for benefits including Retirement, Malden: spouses and/or Medicare benefits; Survivors 192 Commercial Street, 02148 benefits; Disability benefits for children or M, T, Th, F: 9am – 4pm; W: 9am – 12pm
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Roxbury Office: • Voter registration 10 Malcolm X Blvd, 02119 (at Dudley Square, across They also provide assistance with Transitional Housing from Post Office) (Sober Living), Workforce Development & Employment, M, T, Th, F: 9am – 4pm; W: 9am – 12pm Education, and Healthcare. Roslindale: Service hours: The Mayor's Office of Returning Citizens 4238 Washington St. 02131 (next to Municipal Building can be reached at anytime via email in Roslindale Square) Requirements & Restrictions: Must be releasing from M, T, Th, F: 9am – 4pm; W: 9am – 12pm incarceration and returning to Boston Languages: Telephone service and web site information U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office are available in English and Spanish. Interpreter services of Child Support Enforcement provided for other languages in office Child Support Enforcement Division, Department of Social Security: Benefits After Incarceration Revenue Phone: 1-800-772-1213 PO Box 9561 TTY: 1-800-325-0778 Boston, MA 02114-9561* www.ssa.gov/reentry/benefits.htm Phone: (800) 332-2733 Services: The website is designed to help incarcerated Phone (For local callers in the Boston area): (617) 660- individuals successfully transition back into the 1234 community. As part of the Federal Interagency Reentry Fax (MA): (617) 887-7570 Council, they work with other Federal agencies to www.acf.hhs.gov/css/parents provide information about available services such as Services: The federal Office of Child Support help finding a job or applying for possible benefits such Enforcement partners with federal, state, tribal, and as cash benefits, health care, food, and housing. local governments and others to promote parental Service hours: Mon-Fri: 7am - 7pm responsibility so that children receive reliable support St. Francis House from both of their parents as they grow to adulthood. See in Category: Emergency Assistance The OSCE provides resources for parents, grandparents, and children including the following help pages: The Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens • How Do You Get Child Support? 22 Drydock Avenue Applying for Child Support Suite 301 o Making a Payment Boston, MA 02210 o Changing an Order Phone: 617-635-5333 o . See flyers for your specific [email protected]; Boston.gov/returningcitizens state: MA, NH, NY, RI, VT Services: The Office of Returning Citizens offers support International Cases to those who return to Boston after being released from o Tribal Cases state, federal, and county facilities each year. They o • How Does Child Support Work? connect returning citizens to the following resources • What Happens if Child Support Isn’t Paid? and services: • Who Else Do They Help • Birth certificates Incarcerated Parents • Driver’s license and ID cards o Military and Veterans • Employment o Other Locations: *PO Box listed above is for mailing • Food resources inquires and requested documentation only. • Health services • Housing A list of all OSCE offices across the country is available at • Internet access their website. • Legal services Requirements & Restrictions: The webpages listed here • Recovery services are online resources, the OSCE does not provide services • Senior resources directly to families. • Transportation
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Languages: The OSCE also provides a number of resources in Spanish, visit the website for more information Upsolve [email protected]; upsolve.org/ma Who to Contact: Rohan Pavuluri Services:Upsolve is a nonprofit tool that helps individuals file for bankruptcy protection for free. Think TurboTax for bankruptcy protection. Use Upsolve to wipe away crushing debts from credit cards, job loss, and medical bills. Requirements & Restrictions: Upsolve users must have more than $10,000 in debt Waiting time: No wait time Languages: English U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, IRIS See in Category: Veterans Work Opportunity Tax Credit, U.S. Department of Labor 19 Staniford Street, 1st Fl. Boston, MA 02114 Phone: 617-626-5353 [email protected]; wotc.dcs.eol.mass.gov/wotc Who to Contact: WOTC Information Line Services: The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is a federal program designed to encourage employers to hire individuals who might not otherwise find employment. Employers who agree to hire individuals from a “target group” may qualify for a tax credit. The “target group” includes “an ex-felon who has been convicted of a felony and has a hiring date which is not more than one year after the last date on which he was so convicted or released from prison.” It also may include, under certain circumstances, members of a family receiving food stamps or TANF benefits, SSI recipients and veterans.
Requirements & Restrictions: There are no walk-ins. Call or e-mail for information or use the website which is very informative.
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Clothing [email protected]; boston.dressforsuccess.org Arlington Street Church Friday Night Supper Services: Dress for Success Boston works to offer See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations solutions that enable women to break the cycle of poverty. In addition to providing each client with Boomerangs professional attire to obtain employment, their 716 Centre Street programs help women build confidence and knowledge Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 to achieve financial independence. Client services and Phone (Jamaica Plain location): 617-524-5120 programs include: suiting, career advancement, [email protected]; www.shopboomerangs.org/ leadership development, job training, a career center, Services: New, vintage, and gently used clothing, books, and more. housewares, electronics, and furniture are for sale. (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dress for Success Boomerangs is owned and operated by AIDS Action Boston is not accepting pre-worn clothing or Committee of MA, Inc. and all proceeds from accessories at this time) Boomerangs support AIDS Action’s work. Service hours: Monday - Friday 9:30 AM to 4 PM Service hours: Jamaica Plain: Garment District Mon. - Wed., Sat. 10am - 7pm 200 Broadway Thur. - Fri. 10am-8pm Cambridge, MA 02139 Sun. 11am - 6pm Phone: 617-876-5230 Toll Free Phone: 888-482-1632 West Roxbury: Fax: 617-426-5509 Mon. - Sat. 10am - 7pm; closed Sun. [email protected]; garmentdistrict.com/ Central Square: Services: The Garment District is a large and unique Mon. – Sat. 10am – 8pm retail clothing store, stocking all styles of women’s and Sun. 11am – 6pm men’s new and used clothes, shoes, and accessories. South End: By the Pound: shoppers may buy clothing for $2 a Mon. Closed pound ($1 a pound on Fridays). Tue. – Wed., Sat.–Sun. 11am – 6pm Thu. – Fri. 11am - 7pm Service hours: They are only available to answer phone calls and respond to emails during their regular Other Locations: operating hours (Eastern Time): Saturday through Central Square: Thursday: 11am – 7pm & Friday: 11am – 8pm 563 Massachusetts Ave By the Pound is closed until further notice. Cambridge 617-758-6128 Goodwill South End: 1010 Harrison Avenue 1407 Washington St. Boston, MA 02119 Boston Phone: 617-541-1270 617-456-0996 www.goodwillmass.org/ Services: Brighton Allston Congregational Church: Thrift Shop Stores and Food Pantry Goodwill opened the stores in compliance with the See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations state reopening guidelines and continues to follow Centro Comunitário Vida Nova stringent protocols for staff and customers. See website See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations for more information. Dress for Success Boston All the stores will are open Monday – Saturday and 989 Commonwealth Avenue closed on Sundays. Boston, MA 02215 Goodwill attended donation centers are all open. Phone: 617-779-2177 10 Clothing Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Programs Jamaica Plain Goodwill’s mission services focus on helping people 678 Centre Street secure employment, which is critical for economic self- 617-522-1415 sufficiency and mobility. Program participants are Mon-Sat: 10am – 5pm typically individuals with significant barriers including Sun: closed developmental and physical disabilities, reliance on Quincy government benefits, histories of domestic violence and 625 Southern Artery incarceration, limited English, and more. Almost all 617-745-4144 participants are very low income and the majority are Mon-Sat: 10am – 5pm from communities of color. Goodwill offers programs at Sun: closed its Roxbury headquarters and at job training centers in Somerville Salem and Springfield. 230 Elm Street • First Step: a program designed to help you 617-628-3618 advance your career, strengthen your family, Mon-Sat: 10am – 5pm and achieve financial independence. The 3- Sun: closed week job readiness program prepares you to South Boston reenter the workforce. 470 W. Broadway For more information, please contact o 617-307-6367 Larry Elgart at 617-541-1276 or Mon-Sat: 10am – 5pm [email protected]. Sun: closed • Human Services Employment Ladder Program (HELP): This eight-week training program Haley House prepares students to become entry-level direct See in Category: Housing career professionals in human services. Many Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) HELP graduates go on to work for one of their See in Category: Substance Use employer partners. Pilgrim Church o For more information, please contact Martha Pires at 617-541-1499 (Help See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Line) Salvation Army Family Thrift Stores Service hours: M - Sat: 9am - 7pm; Sun: closed 483 Broadway Hours vary by location, see Other Locations. Somerville, MA 02155 Other Locations: Phone: 781-395-9783 Allston/Brighton satruck.org/ 965 Commonwealth Avenue Services: Clothing, small appliances, some furniture. 617-254-0112 Vouchers available for low income and/or elderly at Mon-Sat: 10am – 6pm 1500 Washington Street, Boston. Call 617-236-7233 for Sun: closed info. Cambridge Service hours: M - Sat. 10:00am - 5:00pm 520 Massachusetts Avenue Other Locations: 617-868-6330 Dorchester: Mon-Sat: 10am – 6pm Children’s Learning Center Sun: closed 26 Wales Street Hyde Park 617-436-2480 892 River St. Solutions at Work 617-752-8500 1151 Massachusetts Avenue Mon-Sat: 10am – 5pm Cambridge, MA 02138 Sun: closed Phone: 617-576-0039 solutionsatwork.org/
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Services: Solutions at Work is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness by providing individuals and families with resources and opportunities to strengthen their self-confidence, achieve self-sufficiency, and participate in helping others. Programs: • The homeless and low-income parents who participate in their Children’s Clothing Exchange trade their children’s outgrown items for age-appropriate clothing, books, and toys • SolutionsWear program provides interview- appropriate clothing and accessories to men and women who are enrolled in area job- training programs
St. Francis House
See in Category: Emergency Assistance
Urban Renewals 630 American Legion Highway Roslindale, MA 02131 Phone: 617-522-7383 www.familythrift.com/boston-ma Services: Items available for purchase include: clothing, shoes, bedding, and some furniture. Cash only; ATM in store. Service hours: M - Sat: 9am - 6pm; Sun: 12pm - 5pm
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CORI • Rejections for housing, training or education programs, jobs or other opportunities based on Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc. CORI See in Category: Disability • Other CORI problems that arise Their walk-in sites at the Roxbury Court and Dorchester CORI & Re-Entry Project: Greater Boston Legal Services Court have stopped due to COVID, but will return in the Dorchester Court (1st floor) future. 510 Washington Street Dorchester, MA 02124 In the meantime, you can get help on the 2nd and 4th Phone: 617-603-1797 Wednesdays of the month, 2pm to 4pm by ZOOM. Visit [email protected]; www.gbls.org/our-work/cori-and-re- https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XZHQCMM to entry-project register. You can also email your name, address and Services: Greater Boston Legal Services assists phone number to [email protected] or leave a message at individuals with CORI (Criminal Offender Record 617-603-1797. Information) who are shut out of the economy, rejected Other Locations: for housing, and denied other opportunities because of Greater Boston Legal Services their criminal records. 197 Friend Street, Boston The Project focuses on Roxbury, Dorchester and Boston, MA 02114 Mattapan due to very high rates of unemployment and Roxbury Court: extreme poverty in these parts of Boston. Roxbury Division, Boston Municipal Court 85 Warren Street The project represents individual clients and engages in Roxbury, MA 02119 systemic law reform advocacy. Cases accepted include: Boston Municipal Court • Legal advice on CORI issues and representation Boston Municipal Court, 2nd floor, Ed Brooke of clients at criminal record sealing hearings Courthouse (https://www.gbls.org/self-help/cori) 24 New Chardon Street, • Appeal of denials of criminal record and juvenile Boston, MA 02114 sealing petitions Requirements & Restrictions: Services are limited to • Fixing mistakes on CORI reports and problems low-income people with income less than 200% of with juvenile court youthful offender records federal poverty guidelines, but elders (age 60 or over) being listed on adult CORI reports in violation of or people on Medicare are eligible regardless of income. the law Some of their pro bono volunteer attorneys also may • Denial of the right to seal all of one’s Boston represent clients who are not significantly above the Municipal Court (BMC) cases from all divisions poverty guidelines, and they make referrals to bar of the BMC in a single division of the court association pro bono and reduced-fee panels under BMC Standing Order 1-09 • Cases where a judge ordered sealing or Waiting time: Usually none expungement, but the Commissioner of Languages: Interpreters are available for non-English Probation will not seal or expunge the CORI as speakers by phone if not in person at the courthouse ordered CPCS-Alternative Commitment & Registration Support • Violations of the BAN the BOX law where a job Unit application asked about criminal records See in Category: Sex Offenders • People who were denied or may be denied a trade or professional license (barbers, driving Eastern Regional Legal Intake (ERLI) for Uber or other transportation companies, See in Category: Legal real estate appraiser, etc.) by an agency Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) because of their CORI especially where: (1) the See in Category: Legal application asks about arrests and/or non- convictions; or (2) the application does not warn people not to list sealed records 13 CORI Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Legal Services Center CORI Sealing Initiative Languages: English and Spanish speakers on staff, all 122 Boylston Street other languages including American Sign Language Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 available as needed Phone: 617-522-3003 Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Intake line: 617-390-2524 (MCAD) [email protected]; See in Category: Legal www.legalservicescenter.org/get-legal-help/safety-net- project/lsc-cori-sealing-initiative/ Massachusetts Department of Criminal Justice Services: The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law Information Services-CORI Unit School has created a CORI Sealing Initiative to serve 200 Arlington Street, Suite 2200 those who face severe obstacles in finding housing and Chelsea, MA 02150 employment due to their criminal record. The Legal Phone: 617-660-4640 Services Center of Harvard Law School hold CORI Fax: 617-660-4613 workshops at the center, which is next to the Stony [email protected]; www.mass.gov/criminal- Brook T stop, every month, but they also are available record-check-services during regular business hours every weekday. Who to Contact: Front Desk Services: CORI Unit Overview: The Criminal Offender Workshops: Every third Tuesday of the month from 4:00 Record Information (CORI) Support Services Unit PM – 6:00 PM, they hold a CORI sealing workshop provides CORI to registered organizations, non-criminal during which volunteers, advocates, and lawyers justice agencies such as schools, day care centers, home consult anyone who comes in to access their record and health aides, youth athletic coaches, and municipal to help potential clients understand and navigate the government agencies. Individuals may also obtain a sealing process. Sign up at this link: http://bit.ly/lsc-cori- copy of their personal criminal record from the CORI sealing Support Services Unit. The Safety Net Project at LSC has expanded its work The Unit also assists in correcting inaccurate criminal representing people with denials of Social Security records, investigates complaints of improper access to disability benefits, SNAP assistance, and other public or dissemination of CORI, and provides legal assistance benefits to include representation of individuals seeking on matters relating to the CORI law to police, to seal or expunge information of their MA criminal prosecutors, judges, and the public. record (also known as CORI). For additional information, or answers to questions not Service hours: The Legal Services Center is currently found on the CORI Unit website, please contact the closed to in-person interactions due to COVID-19 Department of Criminal Justice Information Services restrictions. All activities are being conducted CORI Unit at (617) 660-4640. offsite/remotely. At your convenience, please leave a message with your name and the best phone number Service hours: M - F: 8am - 6pm (does not offer walk-in and time to reach you on the Safety Net Project intake service) line (617 390 2524) and they will call you back as soon MassLegalHelp as possible to set up an in-person phone or video www.masslegalhelp.org/ conference (zoom/FaceTime/Skype) interview. You can Services: The MassLegalHelp website is a also reach them by emailing comprehensive, up-to-date site which has specific, easy- [email protected]. to-understand information on how the Criminal Requirements & Restrictions: Low and moderate- Offender Record Information (CORI) laws relate to income residents of Greater Boston, veterans, and finding housing and employment, who has the right to military family members from anywhere in MA. see your CORI, how to seal your record, and how to correct mistakes on your CORI. It has a “Crime Waiting time: No waitlist. Call back times are being Glossary,” which lists definitions of terms, plus a link to impacted by COVID-19 restrictions with delays of 2-5 the Criminal History System Board’s list of CORI Codes, days. which define the terms.
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Individuals with CORI’s can get information and Languages: English referrals about CORI issues by calling the Legal Project Place Advocacy and Resource Center (LARC) hotline at: 617- See Category: Employment 603-1700. Individuals with questions regarding their CORI’s or any Women’s Prison and Re-Entry Project other legal information question can talk, via instant See Category: Legal message, with a law librarian with the “Ask A Librarian” program that runs M – F: 9am – 4pm.
Massachusetts legal aid programs are still helping clients during the COVID-19 emergency. But offices are not open for the public to walk in. If you need help phone or contact your local legal aid program online.
Contact info: For answers to your own, personal legal questions, try the new Mass Legal Answers Online website: https://mass.freelegalanswers.org/. 1. After you set up an account, the website sends your legal questions to a lawyer who will answer them privately. 2. The lawyers only answer questions about non- criminal legal issues, the same kinds of topics they have on MassLegalHelp. 3. You can ask as many questions as you want, but you cannot ask about more than 3 different legal issues in a year. Languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Traditional Chinese
Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department
See in Category: Other Groups
Out For Good, Inc. 432 Dudley Street Boston, MA 02119 Phone: (617) 980-8835 Fax: (617) 708-0296 [email protected]; www.outforgoodinc.com Who to Contact: Christopher E. Conway Services: • CORI sealing • CORI checks
• Substance abuse counseling
• Mental health counseling • Career counseling • Notary public
Service hours: M-F 9am-7pm
Other Locations: 1773 Dorchester Ave Suite 2c Dorchester, MA. 02124
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Disability Disability Law Center 11 Beacon Street Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc. Suite 925 60 Temple Place Boston, MA 02108 Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617-723-8455 Phone: 617-338-6665 Toll-Free: 1-800-872-9992 TTY: 617-338-6662 Fax: 617-723-9125 Fax: 617-338-6661 [email protected]; www.dlc-ma.org/ [email protected]; bostoncil.org/ Who to Contact: Intake staff : Information and Referral Specialist Who to Contact Services: DLC is committed to promoting the civil and Assisting people with a disability to live as full Services: human rights of all persons with disabilities. a life as possible through: DLC’s Core Function is to keep people with disabilities • Adult skills training assistance (including areas such as employment, housing, safe from abuse and neglect wherever they live and social/recreation, education, and financial where they receive services. DLC does this primarily by issues) monitoring for abuse and neglect as well as • Assisting with information and referrals investigating suspicious deaths and allegations of abuse (affordable and accessible housing, health and neglect. insurance, CORI, civil rights for disabled Client services: persons, transportation, home modifications, • They provide information, referral, technical equipment, and other related services) assistance and representation regarding legal • Peer mentoring rights and services for people with disabilities • Individual advocacy • They provide legal services to eligible people • Personal Care Assistance Program (PCA) – for and groups whose cases meet DLC’s people with a disability who need physical care priorities. Click here https://www.dlc- assistance and have MassHealth Standard ma.org/priorities/ for the priorities that DLC will coverage be focusing on in Fiscal Year 2021 • Youth Services Program for individuals ages 14 • They seek to strike a balance between systemic to 22 that includes Peer Mentoring, Skills advocacy and individual representation Training, Information and Referral, and • Their experienced lawyers and paralegals Advocacy conduct trainings for community groups and Service hours: M - F: 8:45am - 5pm other advocacy organization Please note that due to COVID-19 staff are working Requirements & Restrictions: Any individual/family member who self identifies with a disability remotely. They are therefore not taking any walk-in visitors to help slow down the spread of COVID-19. Waiting time: Due to the pandemic, BCIL'S office is closed to walk-ins. All appointments are being done via Service hours: M-F: 9am - 5pm phone or teleconference. Post pandemic, appointments Requirements & Restrictions: are recommended but walk-ins are not turned away, Who They Serve: and assisted based on staff availability • People with disabilities Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish, • People with disability-related problems Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole, ASL, Luganda, • People with disabilities whose legal problem Swahili, Runyankore, other languages accommodated falls within a priority through language line • People with disabilities whose case has merit and DLC has the staff time and resources De Novo: Center for Justice and Healing necessary to resolve the issue See Category: Legal Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and other languages are provided through interpreter services
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HomeStart, Inc. requirements. Must be a Massachusetts resident and See in Category: Housing eligible to work in the U.S. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese, See in Category: Transportation Creole Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination New England Index: Information on Disabilities (MCAD) Exchange See in Category: Legal 55 Lake Avenue North Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) S3-301 600 Washington Street Worcester, MA 06155 Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 774-455-0454 Main: 617-204-3600 [email protected]; neindex.org/ Voice/TDD: 800-245-6543 Services: Disability information and referral: They Fax: 617-727-1354 maintain comprehensive information about programs, [email protected]; services, doctors, dentists, and other professionals who www.mass.gov/orgs/massachusetts-rehabilitation- serve people with disabilities in Massachusetts. They commission are also a resource on issues related to medical Services: The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission insurance for autism treatment within Massachusetts. (MRC) helps individuals with disabilities to live and work Service hours: M - F: 8am - 3pm independently. MRC is responsible for Vocational Requirements & Restrictions: Referrals are only Rehabilitation, Community Living, and Disability available within Massachusetts Determination for federal benefit programs. The Federation for Children with Special Needs The Vocational Rehabilitation Program helps job seekers 529 Main Street with disabilities obtain and maintain a job. Vocational Suite 1M3 rehabilitation helps people with physical, cognitive, Boston, MA 02129 intellectual or mental health conditions manage the Phone: 617-236-7210 modern workplace. Phone (in MA): 800-331-0688 To consider utilizing MRC’s vocational rehabilitation Fax: 617-241-0330 services, you must: [email protected], [email protected]; fcsn.org/ • Have a physical, cognitive, intellectual or Services: The Federation currently oversees over 15 mental health condition that creates or results projects related to supporting families whose children in a major obstacle to employment; and have special educational needs and special healthcare • Require VR services to prepare for, secure, needs, as well as families of culturally and economically maintain, advance, or regain employment underserved populations by promoting family Service hours: M - F: 8:45am - 5pm engagement within general education. The projects are organized into five “Centers” by the primary type of Other Locations: service offered to families and are described below. Braintree Area Office Programs 220R Forbes Rd., Braintree; T/TTY: 781-356-8840 • Special Education Parent Center: Focuses on Roxbury Area Office providing support, information, training and 40 Dimock St., Roxbury; T/TTY: 617-442-5510 workshops related to special education to Somerville Area Office families of children with special needs (includes 5 Middlesex Ave. 3rd Floor, Somerville; T: 617-776-2662 their outreach programming to culturally and TTY: 617-776-4242 linguistically underserved families). Through a variety of activities, parents can learn about the For a statewide listing of MRC area offices, visit the special education process (including IEP, Basic MRC’s Vocational Rehabilitation Area Offices Webpage. Rights, Transition Planning, MCAS, etc.) so that Requirements & Restrictions: Programs are for persons they can best support their child with disabilities. Some services may have other eligibility 17 Disability Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
• Family Support Center: Focuses on providing parent to parent support for families who have children with special health care needs or disabilities; women, children, adolescents and young adults infected/affected by HIV/AIDS; families of young children with early childhood mental health issues; and families who have a serious mental health challenges and complex DCF cases with child custody concerns • Health Advocacy Center: Focuses on providing healthcare information and support to families of children with special needs, and programming that helps build capacity for family partnerships and supports partnership activities between managed care organizations and parents around improved access to services and supports • Family and Community Engagement Center: Offers education improvement services to districts and schools in Massachusetts, partnering with districts and schools to improve student achievement and school performance through strengthening family and community engagement policies. The Center also trains community volunteers to act as “surrogate parents” for educational decision-making for students whose parents are not available. • Parent-Professional Leadership Center: Focuses on activities that help build collaborative relationships among key education stakeholders (parents, educators, other professionals, and community partners) ensuring systemic efforts at improving educational outcomes for all students. Requirements & Restrictions: The Federation provides information, support, and assistance to parents of children with disabilities.
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Domestic Violence Casa Myrna 451 Blue Hill Avenue Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Boston, MA 02121 See in Category: Hotlines Phone: 617-521-0100 Fax: 617-521-0105 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's (BIDMC) SafeLink 24/7 Hotline: 1-877-785-2020 Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery (CVPR) [email protected]; www.casamyrna.org/ 330 Brookline Avenue Services: Casa Myrna’s Boston-based services help Boston, MA 02215 people who have experienced domestic violence to Phone: 617-667-8141 recover from the trauma of abuse and begin to build www.bidmc.org/centers-and-departments/social- sustainable self-sufficiency. All services are free of work/center-for-violence-prevention-and-recovery charge and can be provided in English or in Spanish. Services: The CVPR works to improve the health and Casa Myrna operates Safelink, the statewide 24/7 well-being of people impacted by multiple forms of domestic violence crisis hotline (see Safelink listing for violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, more information). Casa Myrna also operates three community violence, and homicide by providing residential programs (shelters) in Boston for adults and trauma-informed services and programs. their children made homeless by domestic and dating Programs violence. People of any gender can participate in Casa • Sexual Assault: Visit Myrna’s programs. https://www.bidmc.org/centers-and- Services Provided: departments/social-work/center-for-violence- prevention-and-recovery/sexual-assault for • Safety Planning – victims of domestic violence more information learn how they and their families can stay safe • Domestic Violence: visit • Supportive Listening – they provide a safe space https://www.bidmc.org/centers-and- in which to talk about what’s happening in your departments/social-work/center-for-violence- relationship prevention-and-recovery/domestic-violence for • Direct connection to domestic violence shelter more information programs across Massachusetts • Community Violence: visit • Referrals to local domestic violence and https://www.bidmc.org/centers-and- community services departments/social-work/center-for-violence- • Support and resources for anyone who is prevention-and-recovery/community-violence concerned about a victim of domestic violence for more information Supportive Services: All of CVPR’s direct service programs are: • Legal Advocacy Program: This program seeks to • Available to everyone of any culture, gender, address the unmet legal needs of victims of age, sexual orientation, gender identity, and domestic violence who, due to linguistic, religion cultural, and financial barriers, would not be • Available in multiple languages through BIDMC able to access representation through normal interpreters channels. Lawyers and legal staff assist • Primarily offered in-person at sites in Boston, survivors with abuse prevention orders, child and can be accessed by telephone custody and support, divorce, immigration, and Languages: Available in multiple languages through housing. The program includes a Legal HelpLine BIDMC interpreters (617.521.0146), where callers can leave a message at any time. Call the Legal Helpline or Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) SafeLink for more information. See in Category: Physical and Mental Health • Counseling Services: Trained counselors provide individual therapy and support groups for victims of domestic violence, as well as referrals to specialized counseling services in the
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community. Email [email protected] dating and domestic violence, as well as their children. or call SafeLink for more information. DOVE’s services include crisis intervention, danger • Housing Advocacy: Housing Specialists work assessment and safety planning, supportive counseling, with survivors who have been made homeless emergency shelter, legal advocacy and representation, by domestic violence, or who need to find and community outreach, education, and training. alternative housing options due to ongoing Programs & Services Include: violence in their homes. Participants are helped • 24-Hour Crisis Hotline (617-471-1234 or 888- to assess their housing needs and given 314-3683) guidance in identifying, applying for, and • Emergency Shelter (617-471-1234 or 888-314- securing permanent, affordable housing. The 3683) (SAFELINK: 877-785-2020) program also helps secure donations of • Community Based Advocacy & Counseling (617- household items and assistance with moving 770-4065 x 300) expenses. Email [email protected] or call • Legal Advocacy program (617-770-4065 x 400) SafeLink for more information. • Prevention & Education (617-770-4065 x 500) • SOAR (Stability, Opportunity, Achievement, • Support Groups (617-770-4065 x 300) Results): A Self-Sufficiency Specialist works with • Civilian Domestic Violence Advocacy (617-653- survivors as they set and pursue educational, 4226) vocational and employment goals, teaching • Children’s Services (617-770-4065 x 320) them to budget, save, and plan for sustainable • self-sufficiency. The program provides 5-week LGBQ/T Services (617-770-4065 x 300) workshops and individual counseling sessions • Chinese Advocacy Program (617-770-4065 x that help victims of domestic violence learn to 304) review their credit histories, repair bad credit, EMERGE (Batterer’s Intervention) open savings or checking accounts and master 388 Pleasant Street the realities of budgeting and sound financial Suite 204 planning. Email [email protected] or call Malden, MA 02148 SafeLink for more information. Main Office: 617-547-9879 • Community Advocacy: Bilingual Spanish/English Fax: 617-547-0904 Community Advocacy Specialists are available [email protected]; www.emergedv.com at sites throughout Boston, including Who to Contact: Intake staff Dorchester District Court, Roxbury District Services: Emerge is a group counseling and education Court, South End Community Health Center, program for men and women who are abusive in Upham’s Corner Health Center, Brookview intimate partner relationships. Emerge sees clients who House, and the Family Justice Center Boston. have been abusive in heterosexual and same-sex Call 617.521.0116 for current schedule. relationships. Emerge also has an Anger Management Service hours: Supportive services are available by program and a fatherhood group. All programs satisfy appointment during standard office hours. Hotline is court/probation and DCF requirements. 24/7. The Emerge website provides up-to-date information on Languages: English, Spanish other domestic violence programs and resources including a list of resources for survivors. De Novo: Center for Justice and Healing See in Category: Legal Due to COVID-19 Emerge is currently conducting all groups via Zoom, which will continue indefinitely into Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE) 2021. P.O. Box 690267 Other Locations: Spanish groups are held at Curtis Hall Quincy, MA 02269 Community Center, 20 South St, Jamaica Plain, MA Phone: 617-770-4065 02130 [email protected]; www.dovema.org/ Services: DOVE is a multi-service organization providing Requirements & Restrictions: Group members must comprehensive direct services and support for victims of admit to having been physically, emotionally, verbally, 20 Domestic Violence Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org economically, or sexually abusive to a partner in an Support Line: 617-623-5900 intimate relationship for the Abuser Intervention [email protected]; www.respondinc.org/ Program. For the Anger Management Program, the Services: RESPOND provides emergency shelter and a incident(s) must be non-intimate partner related (e.g. range of support services and educational programs to involving coworkers, strangers, friends, or other family thousands of survivors of domestic violence each year members). including adults, children, and teens regardless of Languages: English, Spanish for Abuser Education, Anger gender, race, religion, age, or other characteristics. Management, and Fatherhood programs RESPOND staff work with survivors of domestic violence to address their immediate and long-term needs, Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) providing emotional support, counseling, financial See in Category: Legal resources, information, and referrals. Through Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance RESPOND’s programs, individuals and families in crisis (DTA) develop the concrete tools necessary to regain control See in Category: Emergency Assistance of their own lives – from parenting skills and housing National Domestic Violence Hotline search to financial literacy, and the hands-on See in Category: Hotlines experience of advocating for themselves. Services are free, confidential, and currently offered in multiple On The Rise, Inc. languages. See in Category: Women RESPOND’s Supportive Services are available to all REACH Beyond Domestic Violence victims and survivors of domestic violence. They PO Box 540024 include: Waltham, MA 02454 • Support Line provides emotional support, safety Office: 781-891-0724 Ext, 101 planning, resource referrals, and information on Phone: 1- 800-899-4000 legal options, statewide shelter availability, and [email protected]; reachma.org/ community resources Services: REACH Beyond Domestic Violence is a • Individual counseling and support groups, which comprehensive domestic violence service agency help survivors define and meet their goals serving 7,000 people a year through a combination of regarding safety, housing, employment, health intervention and prevention services. REACH provides care, housing issues, custody, and education safety and support for survivors of abuse. Callers can • Housing assistance program to address the speak with advocates about getting to safety or for a unique needs of survivors and fill the gap left by compassionate listening ear. The Hotline also provides anti-homelessness agencies referrals and information about other REACH services. • Basic Assistance that helps program participants REACH prevention programs engage the community, to access necessities generate conversations, and create locally-based • Legal Support: court accompaniment, assistance solutions to end domestic violence. accessing legal aid services, and help with Service hours: 24/7 diverse legal issues including restraining orders, child custody, and immigration Waiting time: The hotline is 24/7 and individual • Survivors of Abuse Feeling Empowered for Re- advocacy services are available by appointment during Entry (SAFER) Program designed to provide business hours (M-F, 9-5) support and resources to detainees and Languages: Most services can be provided in English inmates in the Suffolk County House of and Spanish. The Language Line is used when someone Corrections speaks another language than those two • Children’s Services that help parents to meet RESPOND, Inc. their children’s needs PO Box 555 • Outreach and Education Activities through Somerville, MA 02143 which RESPOND addresses the root causes of Office: 617-625-5996 domestic violence
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• Civilian Certified Domestic Violence Counselors embedded in six Police Departments: Malden, Melrose, Wakefield, Reading, Woburn, and Wilmington PD RESPOND’s emergency shelter location is kept confidential to ensure the safety of program participants. Services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. RESPOND’s shelter is wheelchair accessible and ADA approved. Its spacious Children’s Learning Center offers a safe, colorful play space and programs that promote learning, encourage parental involvement, and connect children and teens to local in- and out-of-school enrichment activities. The average length of stay for residents is 4 months. RESPOND is proud to accept women and men (or any gender identity) into shelter as well as parents with teenage boys – a rarity in Massachusetts.
Service hours: Business office hours: Monday- Friday,
9am-5pm Support Line: Monday-Friday, 8am-8pm
Waiting time: None
Languages: English, Spanish, Amharic, Portuguese, Haitian Creole SafeLink See in Category: Hotlines
The Cambridge Women’s Center See in Category: Women
The Network – La Red See in Category: LGBTQ+
The Women’s Center
See in Category: Women
WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School See in Category: Legal
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Education Housing Development) 617-522-4250 365Dad Inc. JFK Family Service Center See in Category: Families 23A Moulton St. ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) Charlestown 178 Tremont Street 617-241-8866 Boston, MA 02111 Mattapan Family Service Center Phone: 617-348-6329 535 River St. TTY: 617-423-9215 Mattapan [email protected]; bostonabcd.org/ 617-298-2045 Who to Contact: Ask for program or service Mystic Valley Opportunity Center Services: Programs include adult education, GED 11 Dartmouth St preparation, English for Speakers of Other Languages Suite 104 (ESOL), employment and training, health services, food Malden pantries, fuel assistance, housing assistance, early 781-321-2501 education and care, youth services, citizenship North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center assistance, and elder services. Some ABCD 1 Michelangelo St. neighborhood sites offer assistance with the Earned Boston Income Tax Credit, tax preparation, and financial 617-523-8125 literacy. Parker Hill/Fenway Neighborhood Service Center Call for further information about each program. 714 Parker St. Service hours: Downtown office: M - F: 9am - 5pm Roxbury Other Locations: 617-445-6000 Allston-Brighton Neighborhood Opportunity Center South Boston APAC (NOC) 424 W. Broadway St. 640 Washington Street, Suite 203 South Boston Brighton 617-269-5160 617-903-3640 South End Neighborhood Service Center Asian American Civic Association 554 Columbus Ave. Boston 87 Tyler St. 5th Floor, 617-267-7400 Chinatown, Boston Requirements & Restrictions: All services are available 617-426-9492 to residents of Boston, Malden, Medford, and Everett. Dorchester Neighborhood Service Center Fuel assistance, Head Start, and some workforce 110 Claybourne St. development/job training and senior programs are Dorchester available to additional suburbs. Suburban residents 617-288-2700 from towns other than those listed above should call for East Boston Area Planning Action Council (APAC) eligibility. 21 Meridian St. Languages: English, Spanish, French, Creole, Somali, East Boston Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese. Ask 617-567-8857 about specific languages at program or neighborhood Roxbury/N. Dorchester NOC office when calling. 565 Warren Street Annuity.org Roxbury Phone: 855-972-5895 617-442-5900 [email protected]; Jamaica Plain APAC www.annuity.org/annuities/types/income/ 30 Bickford St. Jamaica Plain (in the Bromley Health Who to Contact: Financial assistants are always on call
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Services: Annuity’s mission is to protect and educate the Brockton Center to MassEdCO, a consumers on a variety of financial topics such as nonprofit college and career access annuities, retirement planning, financial literacy, and network that operates postsecondary more. planning services and Educational Service hours: 24/7 Opportunity Centers throughout Massachusetts Arlington Street Church Friday Night Supper o Due to COVID-19, the Mass EdCo walk- See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations in centers are currently closed, but their ASA College Planning Center Advisors are still available for support. 33 Arch St. #2100 Mass EdCo advisors are available to Boston, MA 02110 answer calls at 617.536.0200 for Boston Phone: 800-999-9080 and 508.586.3100 for Brockton. [email protected]; • Call Center: ASA has a Boston-based call center www.asa.org/planning/#in_person_programming focused on providing students and families with Services: American Student Assistance (ASA) is information on planning for a post-secondary committed to helping students know themselves, know education their options, and make informed decisions to achieve o Mon-Thu: 8:00am – 8:00 pm ET their education and career goals. ASA fulfills this o Fri: 8:00am – 5:00pm ET mission by providing tools and resources to students Languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, Creole, and online, in classrooms, and through community-based French organizations. They help students, as early as middle Asian-American Civic Association school, discover their own interests, passions, and 87 Tyler Street talents, and draw connections between those abilities 5th Floor and potential careers for the future. Boston, MA 02111 Programs Phone: 617-426-9492 • Digital Programming Fax: 617-482-2316 videos specifically for 13-18-year-olds o TTY: 617-426-9157 to get them thinking about career [email protected]; aaca-boston.org/ options and education pathways beyond high school Services: Provides education, occupational training, and • At-Home Resources social services to economically disadvantaged people • In-School Programs with limited English. AACA has six major components: o Their in-school programs cater to The Workforce Development Center provides vocational middle and high school students during training for adults. The agency operates training and after school, offering activities to programs involving banking and finance, facilities explore interests and skills, career maintenance, automotive repair, computers, and job exploration, tutoring, peer mentoring, readiness workshops. college visits, and career and college The Education Center offers basic English classes for workshops speakers of other languages, intermediate English o To learn more, contact Liliana Ornelas, classes to help students prepare for college or enter Manager of Programs and Curriculum, skills training, and distance learning. at [email protected] The Multi-Service Center provides assistance with Programs include: Gear Up, Educational o immigration, housing, job counseling, health insurance, Talent Search primary care, food stamps, social security, home (Boston & Brockton) & Upward Bound heating oil, income tax preparation, college applications • In-Person Programming and access, individual/family counseling, and referrals. o Effective, September 1, 2020, ASA has transferred the management of both Sampan is a bi-weekly newspaper that provides news the Boston Public Library Center and about community concerns and development, health, 24 Education Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org arts and entertainment to the greater Boston Asian • BCYF Marshall American community. • BCYF Quincy Buds & Blossoms Early Education & Care Center is • BCYF Jackson/Mann committed to educating the whole child from infancy • BCYF Blackstone through preschool uniting the best elements of Eastern • BCYF Perkins and Western traditions and practices. Open M – F: 7am They also offer ESOL classes at English High School and – 6pm. the Mario Umana Middle School Academy. BCYF Youth Center provides young people with opportunities Jackson/Mann Community Center offers a unique family to become engaged in community service and access to literacy program. Parents and children can take part in higher education and workforce opportunities to classes at the same time. empower them to lead happy, healthy, and productive High School Equivalency lives. Program includes Youth Employment Center, Get Prepared which provides youth seeking employment one-on-one help with finding entry level employment opportunities, They offer High School Equivalency (HSE) preparation writing resumes, cover letters, and interview classes to adult learners at all grade levels. These preparations. classes help prepare you to take the HiSET or GED high school equivalency exams. They prepare you to Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm understand the concepts stressed in the exam and build Languages: English, Chinese on your knowledge. The goal is to give you the ability to Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc. earn scores that exceed passing requirements. See in Category: Disability Online learning Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) Adult Their courses are becoming more focused on online Education learning and testing. This will help you build the 1483 Tremont Street computer skills to succeed in higher education and the Boston, MA 02120 modern workforce. Online learning also provides Phone: 617-635-4920 flexibility for students to access a quality education [email protected]; www.boston.gov/health-and- from their local community center or home. human-services/bcyf-adult-education Lots of Options Services: Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) They are proud that BCYF was one of the first agencies Adult Education programming builds invaluable skills for approved to offer HiSET neighborhood testing sites in life and work. the state. They administer the HiSET exam to more than They offer a flexible and supportive approach focused on 800 candidates each year. You can take the HiSET or their students. Programs take place at many BCYF GED exams at a number of different times and community centers in Boston. Each year, thousands of locations. They are also the only GED testing site in adults take part in BCYF education programs, including: Boston and the only HiSET paper testing site in Boston. • studying for and taking the HiSET or GED high BCYF Adult Education and Testing Locations school equivalency exams to expand career • BCYF Blackstone prospects • BCYF Marshall • taking English as a Second or Other Language • BCYF Curtis Hall (ESOL) classes • BCYF Hyde Park (closed for renovations) • taking citizenship classes to become • BCYF Jackson/Mann empowered community members • BCYF Mattahunt (closed for renovations) English As A Second Language or Other Language: They • BCYF Mildred Avenue offer English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) • BCYF Paris Street classes at all levels. This includes those with little or no • BCYF Perkins knowledge of English, to those able to conduct simple • BCYF Roslindale (closed for renovations) conversations. 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• BCYF Vine Street Boston Central Adult High School is an evening program COVID-19 current status: that offers a 16-unit program (College Preparatory and General), eventually leading to a diploma comparable to Programs and classes: BCYF community centers are the one offered by accredited day high schools in the offering a limited many of programs and classes for pre- City of Boston Public Schools. This specialized school for registered participants. They continue to expand the mature and serious-minded people allows students to many of offerings as they are able to in accordance with participate in comprehensive programs of study and to public health guidelines. complete diploma requirements during evening hours Meal distribution: select BCYF locations are meal pick- while maintaining full-time jobs. up sites. You can learn more and find a location online. Counseling is available to all students who would like to Service hours: Central Office: M - F: 9am - 5pm. take advantage of the student support services. If you Community Center schedules vary. are a high school graduate who needs special courses to Boston Public Schools: Adult Education Programs gain admission to college or to an institution of higher 55 Malcolm X Blvd. learning, Boston Central Adult High School may provide Building 1 the courses you need to meet admission requirements. Roxbury, MA 02120 Adult Diploma Program (ADP) is an alternative route to Phone: 617-635-9300 a high school diploma. Adults work at their own pace in Fax: 617-635-9045 this flexible program. It includes take home projects, www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/4480 performance assessments, frequent interviews, and Services: Boston Public Schools (BPS) has for over 140 library research. Graduates receive a Boston Central years responded to adults in need of education and has Adult High School diploma. recognized that critical to the success of every child’s Career Pathways Program: Culinary Arts Training education is parent and family involvement. In order to Program is for individuals looking to begin a career in improve learning for all children, educational the culinary arts. This program offers ESL classes, opportunities are made available for parents and other ServSafe certification, cooking, baking, computer adults in the community. literacy, and job placement. They provide basic skills that prepare parents to enter Requirements & Restrictions: the workforce, higher education and job training. Their The Family Literacy Program at Adult Learning Center adult students represent the Boston community: native- born Americans and immigrants who need educational Prospective students must attend an information and credentials, English language skills and/or math registration session, take a placement test to assess proficiency to compete in the workforce. reading/writing and speaking/listening skills. Remember, there is no good or bad score. The test The Adult Learning Center also serves as a test location results are used to determine the best class for the for the HiSET exam (the new GED/high school student. equivalency exam). Visit the official HiSET website to register and for more information. Boston Central Adult High School To become a student you must: Call to sign up and find out program specific • Be a resident of Boston information; see brief program descriptions below. • Have completed school through Grade 8 The Family Literacy Program at the Adult Learning • Be over 16 years of age Center is a day-time program offering adult basic • Not be enrolled in a day high school education, all levels of English for adult language • Pay a registration fee of $5.00 plus cost of learners, HiSET preparation, and computer literacy books classes. Their program is free and parents of Boston OR Public Schools children are prioritized for enrollment. • Be a nonresident of Boston who meets the The Family Literacy Program helps parents and children admission requirements and pays full tuition in learn together. A Parenting Skills Curriculum provides advance parents the opportunity to strengthen their parenting skills. 26 Education Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Adult Diploma Program (ADP): Candidates must be 23 Haitian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, years or older. Students register with a community- and Spanish. based agency and complete the diagnostic and The College publishes an extensive catalog listing all assessment phases. All entering adults take math, courses and other information relevant to admission, reading, and writing assessments. Those who need to eligibility requirements, tuition and financial assistance, review or to strengthen basic skills are referred to and other issues. Call Admissions to request a catalog. existing educational resources in the community. The For updates concerning COVID-19, please visit high school diploma is awarded when students https://www.bhcc.edu/coronavirus-info/. demonstrate competencies in the five areas listed above, plus one individualized competency. The Service hours: Admissions Office: M - TH: 8:30am - graduation ceremony is held in June. 5:30pm; F: 11am - 4pm Note: Students are also required to obtain a passing Other Locations: score on the MCAS in Mathematics, Science and English Chelsea Campus Language Arts or complete the state Alternative 70 Everett Avenue Portfolio Assessment. Chelsea, MA 02150 Career Pathway Program: Culinary Arts Training 617-228-2101 Program TTY: 617-884-3293 • Interested in pursuing a career in Culinary Arts [email protected] • Eligible to work in the United States Malden Satellite • English Language Learner (Level 3-4 Pre- Malden High School intermediate to Intermediate) 77 Salem Street Waiting time: Family Literacy Program at the Adult Malden, MA 02148 Learning Center: The current wait time is usually six South End Satellite months. It’s best to add your name to their wait list 630 Tremont Street since they fill any open slots from the wait list. Boston, MA 02118 Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) Cambridge Center for Adult Education 250 New Rutherford Avenue 42 Brattle Street Boston, MA 02129 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone (Admissions): 617-228-3398 Phone: 617-547-6789 [email protected]; www.bhcc.mass.edu/ Fax: 617-497-7532 Who to Contact: Admissions [email protected]; ccae.org/ Services: Offers Associate of Arts and Associate of Who to Contact: Registrar, ext. 1 Science degrees and certificate programs in a wide Services: Offers a wide variety of adult education range of academic areas including liberal arts, courses including ESL, world languages, visual arts, accounting, business, computer science, media wood and jewelry shop, literature and writing, music, technology, criminal justice, culinary arts, engineering, cooking, and more. Call about specific interests or go and several health-related occupational areas (medical on-line and view catalog which lists course descriptions, radiography, nursing, pharmacy technology, medical lab days and times, teachers, classroom sites, and tuition assistant, surgical lab assistant, and diagnostic costs. sonography). Not all programs are available at all Registration can be made online, in person, or over the locations. Some credits can be transferred to a B.A. phone. Need based scholarships are available. degree program at a four-year college or university. COVID-19 UPDATE: At the moment, classes are The College also has one of the state’s largest course happening online but CCAE hopes to offer in-person offerings in English as a Second Language. A classes at some point in 2021 representative list of the native languages spoken by Service hours: Office Hrs: M - Th: 9am - 9pm; F: 9am - students includes Arabic, Chinese, Creole, French, 7pm; Sat: 9am - 5pm; Sun 12pm - 5pm Requirements & Restrictions: Must be 18 or older. 27 Education Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Cambridge Public Library Tax Assistance: This program is available to people who 449 Broadway generally make $54,000 or less, persons with Cambridge, MA 02138 disabilities, the elderly, and limited English speaking Phone: 617-349-4040 taxpayers. Space is limited. Tickets will be handed out [email protected]; www.cambridgema.gov/cpl on a first-come first-served basis on the day of the Services: COVID-19 update: Not offering any in-building program when the Main Library opens. To get your services or programs at this time. They are doing taxes done you MUST bring: curbside pickup of library books and materials, and • Your social security card or other government offering programs and ESOL classes virtually via Zoom. issued ID showing your social security number The best place to look for the latest up-to-date (a W-2 is not sufficient) information about what’s happening at the library is on • Government issued photo ID (driver’s license, their website. passport, etc.) Along with offering access to books, the Cambridge • Social security cards for all dependents (and Public Library holds over 100 programs each month, spouse if filling a joint return) including services focused on literacy, ESOL, computer • classes, and tax assistance. Programs include: Any tax forms you have received (W-2, 1099- HC, etc.) The Literacy Project: Literacy and ESOL Service hours: COVID-19 update: Phone hours are Mon- The Literacy Project offers free classes in English Wed 1:00pm - 7:30pm & Thurs-Sat 10:00am-4:30pm conversation, job hunting/resume writing, and See website for other location hours. computer basics (Word, internet and email). There are four levels of classes: Other Locations: Boudreau Branch: 245 Concord Ave. 02138 • Low Beginner: For students who have no experience with English and want to learn the Central Square Branch: 45 Pearl St. basics. Will include greetings, introductions, Collins Branch: 64 Aberdeen Ave. 02138 money, telling time, transportation, and health. O’Neill Branch: 70 Rindge Ave. 02140 • High Beginner: For students who already have O’Connel Branch: 48 Sixth St. 02141 some basic speaking ability. Will include Valente Branch (previously closed for renovations): 826 present, past and future verb tenses and Cambridge St. 02141 vocabulary building activities. • Intermediate: For students with good Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston conversational skills who wish to increase See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations vocabulary and improve spoken grammar. Will Charlestown Adult Education Program include reading texts and higher level grammar 76 Monument Street concepts. Charlestown, MA 02129 • Advanced: For students who are strong in Phone: 617-635-5221 spoken English and want to fine-tune their [email protected]; skills. Will include debates, group discussions, bhacharlestownadulted.weebly.com/ presentations, and complex grammar concepts. Services: The primary mission of Boston Housing Authority (BHA) Charlestown Adult Education is to For the most current schedule, please check the provide services that meet the needs of the people in Calendar of Events. the community, with first priority given to BHA and Computer Classes: The Library offers computer classes Boston residents. at the Main Library throughout the year. Classes fill on a Programs and services: first-come, first-served basis. No registration is required • Test Prep but classes do generally fill on the first night with Pre-HiSET waiting lists being created afterwards. o o HiSET o Fast Track 28 Education Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
• ESOL Waiting time: Rolling admissions o level 1, 2, and 3 Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Cape Verdean, • Jobs and More Creole o Home Health Aide Certification Community Learning Center o Hospitality Training Computer and Word Basics 5 Western Avenue o Cambridge, MA 02139 o HUD’s Jobs-Plus Pilot Program • Child Care Phone: 617-349-6363 • Student Services Fax: 617-349-6339 Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm TDD: 617-349-6330 [email protected]; Waiting time: Usually wait list for ESOL classes; www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/com Enrollment in GED within 2-3 months. munitylearningcenter Languages: Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian Who to Contact: Receptionist College Bound Dorchester Services: 275 E Cottage Street COVID-19 Update: Open to the public, but their doors Dorchester, MA 02125 are locked. They welcome drop-ins and scheduled Phone: 617-944-1083 appointments between 8:30am and 5pm, Monday [email protected]; through Thursday. Please ring the bell to the left of the collegebounddorchester.org/ door or call 617-349-6363 to be let in. Services: College Bound Dorchester was built by, and The Cambridge Community Learning Center empowers for, the community and individuals who believe in the a diverse community of adult learners to transform transformative power of education, and currently their lives and realize their potential through education, operates as Boston Uncornered. The organization’s skills development, and community participation. Uncornered model scaffolds the best practices of • English classes mentorship with the proven success of high • Citizenship classes expectations and provides financial support to ensure • Basic reading, writing, and math classes that young adults are able to progress from a past of • incarceration to a future of higher education and Preparation for the HiSET and GED tests • employability with a goal of unlocking the brilliance and Preparation for college power of Core Influencers as positive agents of peace to • Workplace Education at MIT drive community change. Preparation for careers in Certified Nursing Assisting They focus on young adults aged 18 to 30 to support (CNA), Biomedical Careers Program and Information reentry and success with services for: Technology • HiSET preparation to complete a high school The Community Learning Center also offers free credential educational and career counseling, tutoring, and basic • College readiness to enroll in a credentialed computer instruction. post-secondary pathway Service hours: Mon-Thurs: 8:30am - 5pm • ‘On campus’ support to ensure success of a Requirements & Restrictions: Varies by program. college degree • Connection to a community-based mentor for Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE) access to additional services such as mental See in Category: Domestic Violence health, housing, and other needs Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation COVID-19 Update: Their physical buildings are currently See in Category: Employment closed due to the pandemic but they are providing Jamaica Plain Community Center, Adult Learning services virtually. Program Service hours: For information, call M - F: 9am - 5pm. 144 McBride Street Some night classes as well, call for more information. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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Phone: 617-635-5201 The Institute’s Educational Pathways allow students [email protected]; jpccalp.wordpress.com/ who have been involved with the criminal legal system Services: The Jamaica Plain Community Centers Adult to pursue higher education Learning Program (JPCCALP) is the ideal way to develop The Pathways: your skills in English, math, reading, and writing, and • Prison-to-College Pipeline (P2CP) is a college-in- make progress towards your goals. They offer free day, prison program that allows students to begin evening, and online classes convenient for busy adults. their studies at Otisville Correctional Facility and ALP is a full-service program where students can begin continue working toward a degree in their at any level and advance through the highest levels. communities after release. • Life-long learners gain the basic skills they need to College Initiative (CI) is a college preparation receive their General Educational Development (GED), program and community that helps students enter job training programs, and apply for higher with past criminal legal system involvement education and employment opportunities. You can: pursue associate’s, bachelor’s, and graduate degrees. • take core classes • College Pathways offers credit-bearing courses • take computer classes at New York City correctional facilities, creating • get career and college counseling a pathway from city jails to higher education. • get tutoring • HSE (High School Equivalency) Connect supports • take citizenship classes individuals ages 25+ criminal legal system • prepare to get the GED involvement in earning their HSE. Programs Bridging the worlds of workforce development, higher • High School Diploma: education, and criminal justice reform, Career Pathways https://jpccalp.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/hig prepare people for successful careers in human services h-school-diploma-classes/ and community justice • English Classes: The Pathways: https://jpccalp.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/eng • Tech 101: Technology fundamentals for lish-classes/ previously incarcerated students Service hours: Office is open M - Th: 10am - 7pm • Navigator Certificate: Unlocking the value of Languages: English, Spanish, French, Somali, Haitian lived experience in the criminal legal system Creole, and more. • Supervisor Training Certificate: Supervisory practices that support employees and nurture John F. Kennedy Family Services Center growth See in Category: Families • Fellowships: Training the next generation of John Jay College Institute for Justice And Opportunity leaders in juvenile justice, policy advocacy, and 555 West 58th Street philanthropy Suite 603 Other Locations: New York, NY 10019 College Initiative [email protected]; justiceandopportunity.org/ 555 West 58th Street, Suite 609B Services: The mission of the Institute is to open doors New York, New York 10019 and eliminate barriers to success for people who have been involved in the criminal legal system. The Institute Just-A-Start Corporation creates access to higher education and pathways to See in Category: Employment satisfying careers. They also advocate for the right to Justice Resource Institute (JRI) housing, employment, healthcare, and other human See in Category: Physical and Mental Health rights for individuals with criminal convictions. Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts – Boston Programs: 10 Post Office Square Suite 800 Boston, MA 02109 30 Education Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Phone: 617-367-1313 Parole Regional Reentry Centers Toll-free: 888-466-1313 See in Category: Other Groups [email protected]; www.lvm.org/ Prison Book Program Who to Contact: Ellen Blaney, LVM-Boston Coordinator 1306 Hancock Street Services: Free, confidential and individualized tutoring Suite 100 for 2 hours per week in basic literacy and ESOL Quincy, MA 02169 scheduled for mutually convenient times at public 617-423-3298 locations convenient to the student and tutor. [email protected]; Depending on health restrictions in place at any given prisonbookprogram.org/resources/request-books/ time due to COVID-19, tutor/students may be restricted Services: Prison Book Program is a grassroots to remote tutoring only. organization that exists for one purpose- to send free Service hours: Office hours are M - F: 9am - 5pm. Please books to incarcerated individuals since 1972. The call for an appointment. Tutoring is flexibly scheduled program sends free books and learning materials to between the volunteer tutor and the adult student for prisoners, including: mutually convenient times. • Basic legal information for incarcerated Requirements & Restrictions: Must be over 16 and not individuals currently enrolled in a public school. Primary service • Dictionaries population is adults who read below the 6th grade level. • Fiction and nonfiction books that span genres No walk-ins; call for appointment. and subjects Waiting time: Their waiting list varies. The average wait • Materials toward GED study at times time is 6 to 12 months. To request books for a loved one in prison, fill out the MassHire Boston Career Center Request Form found on the Prison Book Program See in Category: Employment website (above) and mail it to: Mothers for Justice and Equality Prison Book Program – Website Request See in Category: Women c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore 1306 Hancock Street, Suite 100 New Beginnings Re-Entry Services (NBRS) Quincy, MA 02169 See in Category: Women They provide books by mail only. No walk-ins. New England Culinary Arts Training Volunteers welcome. See in Category: Employment Service hours: Only answer the phone during their North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center office hours (Tuesday & Thursday from 6:30-9:00). (NSC) Otherwise please leave a message and a volunteer will See in Category: Emergency Assistance get back to you as soon as their schedule allows. There are dozens of groups like this Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation Other Locations: See in Category: Housing one across America. See the website for a list. http://prisonbookprogram.org/resources/other-books- On The Rise, Inc. to-prisoners-programs/ See in Category: Women Requirements & Restrictions: Does not serve prisons in On with Living and Learning, Inc. (OWLL) California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada or onwithlivingandlearning.org/ Texas. In addition, program is not able to send to many Services: OWLL is a collective of artists who use art to individual prisons due to prison restrictions. bring about social change. OWLL brings together Waiting time: 2-3 months underrepresented women and at risk youth with Languages: English, Spanish community elders and teaching artists in leadership workshops that culminate in culturally specific theater Project Hope productions focusing on the social justice issues most See in Category: Families relevant to the participants. 31 Education Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Roca, Inc. Who to Contact: Front Office: Annette Goodrich, 617- See in Category: Other Groups 843-5406 Roxbury Community College Services: This program offers ELL (English Language Office of Admissions, Administration Building, Room 102 Learning), Adult Basic Education classes to prepare for a 1234 Columbus Avenue high school credential, ADP (Adult Learning Program), Roxbury, MA 02120 and is a HiSET testing site. Visit website or call main Main Line: 617-427-0060 office for more information. Admissions: 617-541-5310 Service hours: Office: M - TH 8am - 8pm, F 8am - 4pm [email protected]; Requirements & Restrictions: All students must be www.rcc.mass.edu/ residents of Massachusetts. For all classes, students Who to Contact: Admissions Office must be 16yrs of age or above. If under 18, must have Services: Offers Associate of Arts, Associate of Science letter of withdrawal from high school. degrees, and certificate programs in a wide range of Waiting time: No wait time for ELL classes or adult basic academic areas including liberal arts, accounting, education classes business, computer science, media technology, criminal Languages: Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Spanish, and justice, engineering, and several health-related French occupational areas (medical radiography, nursing, pharmacy technology, medical lab assistant, surgical lab St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children assistant, and diagnostic sonography). Academic See in Category: Housing programs may change, call or visit website for current Straight Ahead Ministries listings. Some credits can be transferred to a B.A. See in Category: Employment degree program at a four-year college or university. Suffolk County Community Corrections Center (CCC) The College publishes an extensive catalog listing all Suffolk County Courthouse courses and other information relevant to admission, 3 Pemberton Square, Room 114 eligibility requirements, tuition and financial assistance, Boston, MA 02108 and other issues. Call Admissions to request a catalog. Phone: 617-788-6100 Service hours: Admissions Office: M/Th: 8:30am - [email protected]; 6:30pm; Tu/W/F: 8:30am - 5pm www.mass.gov/orgs/office-of-community-corrections Requirements & Restrictions: Must have completed Who to Contact: Kimberly Albin High School or GED course Services: The programs offered at the CCC include: Languages: English, assistance with Spanish speaking 1. Manualized cognitive-behavioral treatment students groups designed to address decision making Roxbury Multi-Service Center and/or substance use disorder See in Category: Families 2. Education groups such as Adult Basic Ed, HiSET/GED prep, and post-secondary prep Roxbury Youthworks, Inc. 3. Career counseling groups such as job club, job See in Category: Families readiness, and job search SNAP Path to Work Service hours: Mon, Wed & Fri: 8am - 4pm; Tues & See in Category: Employment Thurs: 11:30am - 7pm Somerville Center for Adult Learning Experiences Waiting time: Usually able to assist on that same day (SCALE) Languages: Spanish 167 Holland Street The Bridge Program Somerville, MA 02144 Community Learning Center [email protected]; 5 Western Avenue www.somerville.k12.ma.us/adult-learning/scale Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 857-285-3217
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[email protected]; club48: club48 provides high-quality services with www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/com curricula that support school success and promote the munitylearningcenter.aspx social, cognitive, and emotional development of the Services: The Bridge Program offers free classes that students. Learn more at prepare program participants for college or other post- https://www.uses.org/programs/club48/, sign up for secondary training. The Bridge Program helps waitlist at https://www.tfaforms.com/4674742, or view participants improve their reading, writing, and math the Parent & Guardian Handbook at skills and provides students with ongoing advising https://www.uses.org/wp- around the college application process, career paths, content/uploads/2019/11/club48-ECE- programs of study, and college funding sources. handbook_2020.pdf. Participants in the Bridge Program are co-enrolled at Camp Hale: Established in 1900, Camp Hale operates on Bunker Hill Community College and earn three free the belief that all youth, particularly those from urban college credits. environments, will benefit from challenging See flyer for the 2020-2021 Bridge Program at opportunities for physical, mental, and social growth https://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/DHSP/CL and development. Learn more at C/BridgeFlyer.pdf. https://www.uses.org/programs/camphale/. Service hours: Classes meet: Wed/Th: 6:15pm - 9:15pm Job Training: USES’ job training program ensures that and every other Tuesday from 6:15pm - 9:15pm their neighbors have the education and opportunities Requirements & Restrictions: You must have a GED, they need to move toward economic self-sufficiency. HISET or a high school diploma. (Foreign high school Learn more at https://www.uses.org/programs/job- diplomas must be translated into English) training/ or submit an interest form at https://www.tfaforms.com/4674742. Cambridge residents have priority Harriet Tubman Gallery: United South End Settlements The Home for Little Wanderers brings the community together through exhibitions, See in Category: Families events, and partnerships, using art as a catalyst for The Women’s Center communication and relationship building across See in Category: Women different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Learn more at https://www.uses.org/programs/harriet- United South End Settlements tubman-gallery/. 48 Rutland Street Boston, MA 02118 Service hours: M - F 8am - 6pm. Call or visit website for Phone (Admin): 617-375-8150 class schedule. [email protected]; www.uses.org/ Other Locations: Services: Headquarters: Children’s Art Centre/South End House Coaching: Coaching is a supportive partnership that 36 & 48 Rutland Street empowers participants with the tools to find solutions Boston, MA 02118 and move their families forward. Learn more at 617-375-8150 https://www.uses.org/programs/familymobility/. Requirements & Restrictions: Must be 18 or older; Early Childhood Education: USES’ Early Childhood program has a special mission to serve residents of the Education program prepares each child emotionally, South End and Lower Roxbury, but will serve adults academically, and physically to succeed in kindergarten. from other neighborhoods as well. Learn more at https://www.uses.org/programs/ece/, Urban College of Boston sign up for waitlist at 2 Boylston Street https://www.tfaforms.com/4674742, or view the 2nd Floor Parent & Guardian Handbook at Boston, MA 02116 https://www.uses.org/wp- Phone (Admissions): 617-449-7070 content/uploads/2019/11/club48-ECE- Fax (Admissions): 617-423-4758 handbook_2020.pdf. [email protected]; www.urbancollege.edu/ 33 Education Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Services: Urban College of Boston offers specific the participants’ behavior and attitude so that they will programs with real-world value. Whether or not you be successful in securing employment and keeping it. enroll as a degree student, certificate student, or Integrated into STRIVE’s 9 – 5 program, X-Cel comes in professional studies student, UCB’s classes can help you twice a week for two hours each day to provide reading enhance your career! and math classes in preparation for the HiSet exam. At Students can take classes at their own pace during their the end of the five-week cycle, STRIVE participants who Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. If students enroll lack a high-school diploma, are then referred to one of full-time, a Certificate can be completed in one X-Cel’s community-based HiSet prep classes. The academic year, an Associate Degree in two years. reading and math classes at STRIVE/Codman Square are Classes are flexible and typically offered at the held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm – 4pm. Also Downtown Location. Students may take day, evening see the STRIVE Directory Listing. and weekend classes! Service hours: Morning classes Mon-Thurs. 10:am- Tutorial assistance is available and free for Urban 12:30pm; Evening classes Mon.-Wed. 6-9:30PM College students. No walk ins. Must make appointment for intake. Staff can also help prospective students who may need Other Locations: Financial Aid. Call for more information. Mission Main Community Center Service hours: Call M - F: 9am - 6pm or walk-in M - F 39 Smith Street, 2nd Floor 1pm - 7pm to get help signing up for classes, securing Roxbury, MA 02120 an internship, or landing a job. Log School All services are available and remotely during the 222 Bowdoin Street Covid19 pandemic Dorchester, MA 02122 Requirements & Restrictions: No international Requirements & Restrictions: Must be 18 or older. For admissions. High School diploma required for an GED: must be able to read at 4th grade level. For associate degree. High School diploma recommended College Prep: must have GED or High School Diploma. for certificate program Waiting time: Open enrollment (no waiting list) Languages: English; many courses are also taught in Languages: English Spanish and Chinese. Youth Options Unlimited (YOU) Boston X-Cel Education See in Category: Employment 7 Glenvale Terrace, #2 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 YouthBuild Boston Phone: 617-522-2590 27 Centre Street [email protected]; www.x-celeducation.org/ Roxbury, MA 02119 Who to Contact: Telephone for 617-522-2590 Phone: 617-445-8887 registration information. Fax: 617-427-3950 [email protected]; www.youthbuildboston.org/ Services: The X-CEL School offers pre HiSET, HiSET, and Services: YouthBuild Boston works with young adults in College Prep classes at several four locations in Boston. the Boston area to develop personal and career skills Most of the classes have “rolling admissions” so that using innovative programs in the building trades – from students can begin at any time. This was done in part to design and construction to the green industry. YBB make it possible for returning citizens to begin classes enhances the lives and skills of their students, no matter when their incarceration ended. Classes are encouraging them to work with integrity, confidence, small and each student advances through the skill levels discipline and aspiration. More than 1,000 graduates at his or her own pace. have been equipped with the professional skills and STRIVE: This program is a collaboration between STRIVE tools necessary to lead successful lives and further their Employment Services and X-Cel. STRIVE operates a 5- education. week job readiness program, which runs Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm. The program focuses on changing
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Applicants may visit the website and click the “Apply now” button if they are interested in a YouthBuild Boston program.
Service hours: M - F: 8am - 3pm
YW Boston 140 Clarendon Street, Suite 403
Boston, MA 02116 Phone: 617-585-5400 Fax: 617-585-5499 [email protected]; www.ywboston.org/ Services: As the first YWCA in the nation, YW Boston helps individuals and organizations change policies, practices, attitudes, and behaviors with the goal of creating more inclusive environments where women, people of color, and especially women of color can succeed. The F.Y.R.E. Initiative is YW Boston’s leadership and empowerment program for middle school girls in the
Greater Boston area. The program’s curriculum incorporates social justice education, positive identity development, and civic engagement. Each weekly session is designed to promote dialogue and experiential learning to cultivate empathy and increase social-emotional learning.
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Emergency Assistance [email protected]; citymissionboston.org/homelessness-prevention Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) Who to Contact: Director of Homelessness Prevention See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Services: To provide families with relief, City Mission has four programs dedicated to homelessness Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) prevention: See in Category: Physical and Mental Health • Emergency Needs Network Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee • A Lift Up 11 Inman Street • Public Voice Cambridge, MA 02139 • A Path to Employment Phone (Reception): 617-868-2900 • Food Assistance ceoccambridge.org/ For more information, please contact the Director of Services: Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Homelessness Prevention Programs, Paola Miranda, at (CEOC) is an anti-poverty agency fighting to empower [email protected] people and mobilize resources to fight poverty’s causes Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm and impacts. See specific services below: • College Assistance Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE) • Financial Education See in Category: Domestic Violence • Food Pantry Elizabeth Stone House • Free Tax Preparation See in Category: Physical and Mental Health • Health Insurance Assistance • Housing Assistance Father Bill’s Place See in Category: Shelters • Public Benefits Assistance • SNAP/Food Stamp Assistance Heading Home Service hours: See in Category: Shelters Food Pantry: Mon. 4pm – 7pm Tues. 12pm - 2pm, Wed. House of Hope, Inc. – Lowell 4pm – 6pm Thur. 11am - 1pm. See in Category: Housing Pandemic food pantry hours: Tues. 12pm – 2pm, Thur. Massachusetts Child Abuse Emergency Line 11am – 1pm See in Category: Hotlines Annual income must be Requirements & Restrictions: Massachusetts Department of Housing and $75,000 or less in order to be eligible for tax services. Community Development (DHCD) Some services only available for Cambridge residents. See in Category: Housing See website or call Reception for more details. Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance Amharic, English, Haitian Creole, Languages: (DTA) Portuguese, Spanish 600 Washington Street Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston Boston, MA 02111 See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations DTA Assistance Line: 1-877-382-2363 Fax: 617-348-5479 Centro Comunitário Vida Nova www.mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/dta/ See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Services: The Massachusetts Department of Transitional City Mission: Homelessness Prevention Assistance, or DTA, is the state agency that administers 185 Columbia Road (Mail) direct economic assistance (cash benefits) and food Suite 317 assistance (SNAP benefits), as well as provides Boston, MA 02121 workforce training opportunities. Phone: 617-742-6830 x212 Food Assistance (www.mass.gov/snap) Fax: 617-742-8470
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/SNAP: Employment Programs: Provides clients with the basic Formerly the Food Stamps Program, SNAP benefits are skills, education, occupational skills and support provided by the federal government and administered services needed to acquire and retain jobs. by DTA. Residents of the Commonwealth who Support Services: Offers a variety of programs to participate in SNAP are families with children, elders support clients to acquire and maintain employment. and disabled. Some of these supports include coordination of child DTA SNAP Outreach Partners: DTA partners with over care and transportation services as well as referrals to 90 organizations across the state to offer SNAP supports offered by other state agencies. application assistance. Outreach partners can help Help for Victims of Domestic Violence on Public households complete a SNAP application, interim report Assistance(www.mass.gov/dta/domesticviolence) and recertification, understand the application process, The DTA Domestic Violence Unit has domestic violence gather and submit required verifications and remain specialists to help households address safety concerns eligible for SNAP by helping with the recertification and address barriers to program participation. The DV process. Find a partner at www.mass.gov/snap- unit bridges DTA to other domestic violence service outreach providers. To contact a Domestic Violence specialist, call Economic (Cash) Assistance your local office and ask to be connected with the (www.mass.gov/dta/assistance) Domestic Violence specialist. Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children Application Information Unit: 1-800-249-2007; M-F: (TAFDC): Provides cash assistance to families with 8:45am – 5pm. children and pregnant women in the last 120 days of Provides information and answers questions on how to pregnancy, with little to no assets or income. apply for assistance and for services offered by DTA. Participants receive child care and transportation support associated with job assistance and can access a Service hours: DTA Assistance Line: Mon. - Fri. 8:15am - number of supportive referrals to substance abuse 4:45pm and/or mental health services, and domestic violence Other Locations: specialists. As part of TAFDC, participants may be DTA SSI Centralized Office required to perform a work-related activity in order to 245 Commercial Street, Malden, MA 02148 receive benefits. 781-388-7300 Emergency Aid to the Elderly, Disabled, and Children Serves SSI clients who live alone and receive (EAEDC): Provides cash assistance to those in need to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) stabilize their lives. Recipients must meet certain benefits through Bay State Cap. SSI clients wanting to eligibility criteria. apply for additional benefits should contact their local Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Cash assistance DTA office. If you are unsure of where to call, please call program administered by the Social Security the Application Information Hotline at 1-800-249-2007. Administration for the elderly (over age 65) and M – F: 8am – 5pm disabled. Assists the elderly and certain categories of Roxbury long-term disabled residents to receive SSI benefits. For more information on SSI eligibility, contact the Social Nubian Square, 2201 Washington Street, 02119; 617- Security Administration. 989-6000 Employment Services Program (ESP) Any of numerous buses going to Nubian Square. (www.mass.gov/dta/work) M – F: 8am – 5pm Assists clients in finding jobs, resolving barriers to Boston, Newmarket Square employment and providing a way to self-sufficiency. ESP 1010 Massachusetts Ave. 02118; 617-989-2200 is an employment-oriented program that is structured Bus: #8 from Nubian Square or bus: #10 from Andrew within the following two areas: Station or Copley Square. M – F: 8am – 5pm Chelsea 37 Emergency Assistance Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
80 Everett Ave, Chelsea; 617-551-1700 • Food Pantries M – F: 7am – 5pm • Fuel Assistance Boston DTA SNAP Outreach Center: Boston Medical • Weatherization Center In addition, Seniors enjoy a number of programs One Boston Medical Center Place, Boston, MA including a drop-in senior center, health, exercise, and wellness classes, social activities, discounted taxi Languages spoken: Spanish, English vouchers, and a supermarket shuttle. F: 9 – 5 They provide hot meals on Mondays and Fridays, as well Boston DTA SNAP Outreach Center: Codman Square as snacks 3 times a week, primarily for seniors, people Health Center who are disabled or homeless. 637 Washington Street; Dorchester, MA Additionally, they offer a range of educational Languages spoken: English presentations; job readiness programs; assistance with F: 9 – 4 your search for affordable housing; assistance with your health insurance application (Medicare Part B); Quincy DTA SNAP Outreach Center: Quincy QCAP translation and interpretation services in Italian, 1509 Hancock Street; Quincy, MA Mandarin, and Turkish, and notary services. Every M and every other Th: 8:30am – 4:30pm During the holidays, they can provide holiday meals, Somerville DTA SNAP Outreach Center: Somerville Lift gifts, and participation in their Adopt-a-Family program. Program Service hours: Mon-Fri 9am - 5pm 366 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA Other Locations: Every Wednesday Boston Public Library, West End Branch Requirements & Restrictions: Different programs have 151 Cambridge St. different eligibility requirements. Ask about Boston, MA 02114 requirements for specific programs. Ask what you should bring when you apply for a specific program. 617-523-8125 Application to most programs will require identification Requirements & Restrictions: Low income residents of with name and address, proof of income, and social Boston for most programs. Bring I.D. and proof of security numbers for all members of your household; income for your first visit. they may also ask to see your discharge papers. Languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Turkish National Sexual Assault Hotline On The Rise, Inc. See in Category: Hotlines See in Category: Women New England Center and Home for Veterans Rape Crisis Hotline – Pathways for Change See in Category: Veterans See in Category: Hotlines North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center RESPOND, Inc. (NSC) See in Category: Domestic Violence 1 Michelangelo Street Boston, MA 02113 Rosie’s Place Phone: 617-523-8125 See in Category: Women Fax: 617-367-4859 St. Francis House [email protected]; 39 Boylston Street bostonabcd.org/location/north-end-west-end-nsc/ Boston, MA 02116 Services: Phone: 617-542-4211 • Utility Bill Advocacy Fax: 617-542-4705 [email protected]; stfrancishouse.org/ • Food Stamps/SNAP • SummerWorks
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Services: Since 1984, St. Francis House has offered basic massachusetts.salvationarmy.org/MA/BostonSouthEnd care and services that make the difference between ?openDocument&charset=utf-8 hope and despair, and often between life and death. Who to Contact: Captains Myron & Kimberly Smith Programs Services: • Art Therapy Food distribution • Basic Services Tuesday and Thursday 10:00am – 2:00pm Meals o Serving residents in the following zip code areas: o Daytime Shelter and resource center • Back Bay/Beacon Hill: 02108, 02114, 02116, o Clothing 02117 o Showers and Toiletries o Mail and ID services • Fenway/Kenmore: 02123, 02115, 02215 • Clinical and Recovery Services • Central: 02109, 02210, 02111, 02112, 02113, o Case management 02123, 02134, 02135, 02163 Mental health care o • South End: 02118 o Substance abuse assistance If you are in need of food assistance, please visit The o Expressive Therapy Salvation Army Corps below that serves your zip code o Legal aid area. Due to increased demand, food is available on a o Whole health care clinic • Creative Innovations first come, first served basis. Certain guidelines may • Housing apply. o Next step housing Emergency Assistance Programs o The union at 48 Boylston • Emergency Utilities Assistance/Good Neighbor • Medical clinic Energy Fund • Moving ahead program • Emergency Furniture Assistance • Next step program • Emergency Clothing Assistance • Carolyn Connors Women’s Center • Emergency Rent/Mortgage Assistance • Workforce development • COVID-19 Updates: https://stfrancishouse.org/covid19/ Emergency Food Pantry Assistance • Service hours: Hours vary depending on program. Call Energy Efficiency Funds Assistance or visit website for details. For more information on these services, please contact Requirements & Restrictions: Daytime Shelter and the South End Corps at 617-536-5260 or visit them at Resource Center: For guests who are new to St. Francis 1500 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02118 House, the Hospitality Desk in the Resource Center Service hours: M/T/Th/F: 8:30 am - 4pm. Please call to should be their first stop. There, guests get a St. Francis schedule an appointment House ID, which will help them access many of their Other Locations: services, including case management or mental health Boston Kroc Center counseling. 650 Dudley Street No pets. Service animals are allowed. Dorchester, MA Languages: English, Spanish Food distribution: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at The Salvation Army – Boston South End Corps 10:00 am Community Center Food delivery for seniors: Tuesday-Friday 1:00pm (while 1500 Washington Street supplies last) Boston, MA 02118-2015 Serving residents in Dorchester zip codes: 02121, 02125, Phone: 617-536-5260 02127 Fax: 617-236-0799 [email protected], Jubilee House at Children’s Learning Center [email protected]; 26 Wales Street 39 Emergency Assistance Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Dorchester, MA Food distribution: Monday-Thursday 10:00am – 12:00pm Children’s Meals: Monday-Friday 10:00am – 12:00pm Serving residents in the following zip code areas: Dorchester: 02122, 02124 Mattapan: 02126 Hyde Park 02133 Chelsea/East Boston 258 Chestnut Street Chelsea, MA Food pantry: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00am – 12:00pm
Hot meals/children’s meals: Monday-Friday 11:30am
(while supplies last)
Serving residents in the following zip code areas:
East Boston: 02128
Charlestown: 02129
Boston Central
23 Vernon St
Roxbury MA
Food pantry and children’s meals: Monday-Friday 9:00am – 1:00pm Serving residents in the following zip code areas: Roxbury: 02119, 02120 Roslindale: 02131 Hyde Park: 02133, 02136, 02137 West Roxbury: 02132 Jamaica Plain: 02130
Upsolve See in Category: Administrative Issues
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Employment • Packaging and Fulfillment Center Occupational Health ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) CWS has a long history of serving people with See in Category: Education Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) and Arlington Street Church Friday Night Supper delivering innovative services designed to help them See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations achieve their greatest potential Asian-American Civic Association Workforce Development See in Category: Education • Work Readiness • Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc. Job Placement See in Category: Disability • Post-Placement • Case Management Boston Project Rebound Reentry Services • Legal Assistance & Benefits Counseling See in Category: Other Groups Service hours: Office and Program Hours: M – F: 8am - Cambridge Multi-Service Center 4:00pm See in Category: Other Groups Requirements & Restrictions: All of CWS services have Casa Esperanza, Inc. specific eligibility requirements. Interested candidates See in Category: Substance Use are encouraged to attend an agency tour to learn more about the program and their requirements. Tours are City Mission: Homelessness Prevention held year-round, every Wednesday at 1pm. See in Category: Emergency Assistance Reservations are not required. Community Servings Languages: English, Spanish See in Category: Food Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation Community Work Services (CWS) 594 Columbia Road 174 Portland Street #2 Dorchester, MA 02125 Boston, MA 02114 Phone (General): 617-825-4200 Phone: 617-720-2233 Phone (Referrals): 617-825-4200 x574 Fax: 617-367-4759 Fax: 617-825-3522 cwsnewengland.org/ dbedc.org/ Services: Founded in 1877, CWS helps people who face Services: Dorchester Bay runs a number of programs barriers to work obtain employment and achieve including a Reentry Program for returning citizens. greater self-sufficiency through innovative job training, Participants start in the program while in prison and placement, and support services. Programs and support continue after release with case management, guidance services include: with educational and employment goals, weekly Education: The Career Design School support groups, and assistance with personal needs • Total Facilities Management (offered at Boston such as probation officer relationships and Location) family/community relationships. Services provided can • Warehouse and Fulfillment include job readiness programs, resume writing help, • Power of Possible and a GED preparedness course. • Hospitality Referrals are made on a case-by-case basis. • Culinary Training Program COVID-19 Update: Currently in the process of • At Your Service- Hotel Training (Certificate remodeling their building and due to COVID staff are Program) working virtually. Currently in the process of moving up • Get Ready! (offered at Boston Location) the street to another building until repairs are Economic Development complete. It is best to call and contact them before • Food Service & Catering coming to the office. Doing meetings on zoom and • Mailroom Operation Services phone mostly.
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Service hours: Information: M - F: 9am - 5pm; Client [email protected]; Services: T & W: 11am - 4pm, Th: 11am - 3pm www.innercityweightlifting.org/ Requirements & Restrictions: Clients must have a CORI Services: to access services. ICW offers their students the opportunity to learn a Father Bill’s Place valuable skillset, personal training, and this experience See in Category: Shelters allows students to meet clients from opposite socio- economic backgrounds, build an invaluable network, all Goodwill while making a stable living. See in Category: Clothing ICW also offers a case management program where Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) they offer their students the opportunity to become See in Category: Legal ready for employment through resume workshops, Haley House Transitional Employment Program mock interviews, housing assistance, and more. 12 Dade Street Service hours: Mon-Thurs: 9am - 5pm, Fri: 9am- 2pm Roxbury, MA 02119 (Hours may vary) Phone: 617-445-0900 Other Locations: [email protected]; haleyhouse.org/what-we- 1. Kendall Square, Cambridge MA do/tep/ 2. Dorchester, MA Services: Requirements & Restrictions: Prioritize individuals who The Haley House Transitional Employment Program is have been referred by courts, jails/prisons, and presently on hold. organizations but is willing to help any individual who The Transitional Employment Program (TEP) at Haley has been a victim/perpetrator of gun violence House Bakery Cafe strives to end the cycle of Just-A-Start Corporation incarceration by supporting people returning to the 1035 Cambridge Street #12 community. TEP offers a real, paid work experience Cambridge, MA 02141 producing wholesale bakery products. Haley House also Phone (Main Office): 617-494-0444 partners with other community organizations to offer Fax: 617-494-8348 computer classes, workforce readiness training (which [email protected]; www.justastart.org/ includes interview skills, resume writing, lessons on Who to Contact: Varies by program, see Services employment law, etc.), and mindfulness training. TEP is description for contacts open to men and women of any age transitioning from Services: Provides affordable housing, education, prison back into the community. TEP trainees must training, community engagement, and supportive commit to at least 3 months in the program. services, including: Service hours: Hours vary. Cambridge Biomedical Careers Program: This free 9- Other Locations: Haley House’s administrative office month training program (September–May) prepares and meal services are located at 23 Dartmouth Street in participants for entry-level jobs in the biotechnology, Boston, MA. life sciences, and medical research industries, and Hope House supplies local employers with work-ready, diverse See in Category: Substance Use employees. The laboratory training is done in partnership with Bunker Hill Community College. In the House of Hope, Inc. –Lowell program, students also receive job readiness training See in Category: Housing such as preparing a resume, interviewing, and job
search, and are introduced to industry professionals InnerCity Weightlifting (ICW) through career talks and employer site visits. After PO Box 171313 graduation, students receive follow up services for up to Boston, MA 02117 one year, until they are placed in relevant employment. Phone: 617-714-4529
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There is no tuition fee. Applications are accepted April technical assistance with property maintenance and through August. Eligibility requirements include: a GED repair; advisory services for condominium association or HS diploma, Massachusetts residency (primarily finances, management, and compliance; education and Cambridge, Boston, and MetroNorth), income eligibility, training courses; and leadership development for age 18+, and good reading and math skills. condominium associations. Contact: 617-918-7520 Contact: 617-918-7514 Information Technology Careers Program: The JAS IT Real Estate Development Projects: As part of its core Career Program is a FREE educational and career skills mission, Just-A-Start (JAS) develops and owns training program that prepares individuals for Computer affordable apartments that allow low and moderate User Support Specialist positions in any business income residents to live in Cambridge at rents that are environment. The program is ideal for people who are within their means. JAS currently owns nearly 600 units looking for a new career or are entering the job market and has partnered with Maloney Properties and for the first time. Wingate to provide the portfolio with professional Through this training module students are able to management. If you are interested in affordable rentals obtain stackable industry recognized credentials and in Cambridge, please contact Maloney Properties and certificates (i.e. CompTIA, CompTIA A+, etc.) Wingate for more information. Contact: 617-918-7520 Mediation/Conflict Resolution: To avoid evictions YouthBuild/Just-A-Start: JAS YouthBuild is a and/or homelessness, Just-A-Start (JAS) professionals comprehensive youth development program for 16 to mediate and help resolve disputes between tenants, 24 year-old out of school youth that provides education landlords, homeowners, and others by creating a safe, leading to grade level increases and credential neutral forum in which meaningful dialogue can occur. attainment (high school diploma or HiSET – formerly Mediation allows parties to understand each other’s GED); career exploration and employment skills building perspectives, explore options, and come up with a (with a construction/facilities maintenance and/or resolution that everyone feels comfortable moving healthcare focus); and leadership and life skills training. forward with. Through these efforts, JAS has helped Through their housing community service work thousands of individuals reach compromise and address experience, youth gain occupational skills leading to HBI conflicts before they spiral out of control, often PACT and OSHA certificates (industry recognized preventing unnecessary eviction. For qualifying cases, credentials), in addition to applied academic skills and JAS professionals also provide mediation to resolve leadership development. JAS YouthBuild also provides consumer disputes referred through district courts or comprehensive guidance, counseling, case the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. management, and support services. Youth who Contact: 617-918-7518 complete the program transition to employment, Other Locations: training, and/or college and receive intensive follow-up YouthBuild support for at least one year, with additional support beyond. 1175 Cambridge St. Cambridge 617-242-1460 Contact: [email protected] or 617-918-7506 Requirements & Restrictions: Bring your Social Security Home Improvement Programs: Provides assistance in card, birth certificate and proof of address. managing home improvement projects and helps homeowners, condominium associations, and landlords Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) secure financing for housing improvements. JAS’s See in Category: Substance Use experienced rehab specialists guide clients through the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance entire process, from application to completion. (DTA) Contact: 617-918-7514 See in Category: Emergency Assistance Homeowner Services: JAS offers an array of services to Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, (MRC) meet the ongoing needs of low and moderate income See in Category: Disability homeowners in Cambridge. These services include: Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department 43 Employment Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
See in Category: Other Groups New England Center and Home for Veterans See in Category: Veterans MassHire Boston Career Center 1010 Harrison Avenue New England Culinary Arts Training Boston, MA 02119 23 Bradston Street Phone: 617-541-1400 2nd Floor [email protected]; Boston, MA 02118 www.masshirebostoncareerctr.org/ Phone: (617) 442-3600 Services: MassHire Boston Career Center offers a Fax: (617) 442-3619 number of services to help job seekers. [email protected]; ne-cat.org/ Programs & Services Services: Culinary arts job training 12-week program, • Hot Jobs which includes technical training along with personal • Job Seeker Resources coaching and career readiness. Job placement Connect with a career advisor assistance at the completion of the program. To learn o more and to begin the application process, please o Connect with Employers . Access to confidential job attend one of the required information sessions, held postings every Tuesday morning via Zoom. Email Elise Brandwein . Exclusive indeed job page at [email protected] to RSVP and receive the link. . Virtual recruitment events Service hours: M-F: 9am-4pm o Workshops & Events Requirements & Restrictions: NECAT’s program is free . Job search strategies of tuition cost to students and is designed for . Labor market exploration individuals who are: . Mock interviews • Unemployed or underemployed (earning a low . Resume writing income) with limited access to training o Jobseeker resources opportunities . Career advising • Dedicated to working hard and securing a . Job referrals permanent job after the program . Skills training (eligibility • Interested in a career in the hospitality or food requirements apply) services industries Are you between the ages of 18-24? Contact Skip • Able to commit to the 12-week program, Gonsalves (617-541-1474 or SkipGonsalves@ Monday-Friday, 9 am – 4 pm MassHireBostonCareerCtr.org) • At least 18 years old Are you over the age of 40? Contact Claudia Brashears • Legally able to work in the state of (617-541-1481 or ClaudiaBrashears@ Massachusetts MassHireBostonCareerCtr.org) • Able to show proof of a high school diploma or Are you a returning citizen or is your CORI impacting GED / HiSet reemployment? Contact Jay Eloiseau (617-541-1476 or • Committed to staying in touch with NECAT for [email protected]) at least two years after the program Are you a veteran? (Veteran’s Receive Priority Of Waiting time: Depending on number of applications, Service) Contact Mark Bryson (617-541-1487 or could be 1 week to 8 weeks [email protected]) Out for Good, Inc. COVID-19 Update: Currently offering all services See in Category: CORI remotely Parole Regional Reentry Centers Service hours: See in Category: Other Groups Office: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Project Hope Program hours vary See in Category: Families Waiting time: Depends on individual requirements
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Project Place preparation for positive re-entry into the community. 1145 Washington Street This program is only available to incarcerated females at Boston, MA 02118 the SCHOC. Upon release, the women are welcomed to Phone: 617-542-3740 x 434 the Project Place community and continue to work with Fax: 617-542-3860 a case manager for programming and support services. 617-542-3860 Stabilization Programing Around Recovery and [email protected]; projectplace.org/ Resiliency Coaching (SPARRC) is one of several entry Who to Contact: Beth Carter, Director of Re-Entry points into Project Place and is essential for many Services and Programs people before they begin job training. The program is Services: Project Place Re-entry Services and Programs for those who desire change but aren’t quite prepared provide a path to success and self-sufficiency for men for or ready to commit to the Re-entry curriculum or and women returning to the community after Work Ready. Covered topics include: incarceration. Through a sense of belonging to the • Recovery and mental health support Project Place community that maintains high standards • One-on-one case management sessions of accountability, participants can thrive as they pursue • Group counseling and skill development their goal of stabilization through employment. • Structured guidance for personal and Employment, Job Training, & Resource Services employment goals • A welcoming and supportive community Project Place Re-entry works with residents, residential Work Ready: WORK READY is a 4-week job-readiness facilities and agencies within Suffolk County and the training program focused on the basics of preparing expansive surrounding communities. They help all who clients for a successful job search. Clients will learn to are re-enter the community and need help in the develop resumes, write cover letters, perform a focused Commonwealth of Massachusetts. job search, & prepare for the interview process. In Project Place utilizes programs and curriculum addition, clients will attend a weekly computer class. developed specifically for individuals returning from Upon completion of the program, clients will be incarceration and/or those who are system impacted. assigned a career coach/case manager to assist with job Courses include Financial Math and Budgeting for search and provide ongoing support & resources. Society, Anger Management, Family Reunification and Classes are presently held virtually. other educational resources. The Re-entry team Further Credentialing: Project Place offers a 4-week provides individualized case management while Customer Service Training with Professional assessing the needs of each person. Their services Certification in Customer Service through the National included guidance for obtaining identification and Retail Federation Foundation. They also offer a 4-week documentation, health insurance, assisting with practicum focused on daily guided job search with the housing, including transitional housing, and express goal of employment for clients who complete employment. Customer Service credentialing. ServSafe, an industry- Project Place has a full Career Services Department that recognized certification in food safety is offered works closely with their Re-entry Department for their regularly. OSHA training is offered on an occasional clients and focuses on each individual client and basis as well. partnering employers. Career Services and the Re-entry Social Enterprises: Project Place operates three Departments at Project Place are practiced in businesses. These enterprises provide transitional overcoming the hurdles of CORI challenges and employment for clients for up to 3 months at starting windows in work history pay of $11/hr. Individuals apply to be hired. Their social Community Re-entry for Women (CREW) provides job enterprises provide an opportunity to fill gaps in work readiness and life skills training to incarcerated women history & gain references while pursuing permanent at the Suffolk County House of Correction. Through employment with the support of a case manager. To be linking the participants with case management, career considered for hire into one of their enterprises, clients coaching and health care, the program seeks to foster must first complete Work Ready. the strength and independence of participants in
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• Clean Corners…Bright Hopes: Clean Corners… All programs are CORI friendly. Bright Hopes is a facilities maintenance service Transportation: Silver Line: East Berkeley St.; Red Line: that employs homeless individuals to perform Broadway. maintenance and landscaping. This business Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm offers transitional employment for three months. Languages: English, Limited Spanish • The Logistics Enterprise Apprenticeship Program Roca, Inc. (LEAP) is a social enterprise business that See in Category: Other Groups provides vending and delivery services Roxbury YouthWorks, Inc. throughout Greater Boston, preparing See in Category: Families individuals for a career in logistics, transportation, warehousing, etc. SNAP Path to Work • Working Opportunities for Women (WOW) SNAP Client Assistance: 877-382-2363 employs women to perform light Provider Assistance: 508-856-3139 manufacturing, order fulfillment, sales and Toll Free Line: 888-483-0255 marketing, and other small business operations www.snappathtowork.org/ to support local businesses seeking to expand Services: SNAP Path to Work is the Department of their operations. Transitional Assistance’s voluntary employment and Housing training program that provides Massachusetts SNAP • Partnerships with various housing providers clients with the skills, training, experience, education including Caritas and sober living communities and employment supports needed to find and keep good paying jobs. • Rapid Rehousing: Betty’s Place is a program that can accommodate up to 10 women at one time. Programs Residents are provided with Project Place 1. Education: Prepares SNAP clients for the job programming and supports while making the market by helping them obtain the proper transition from the emergency shelter system education, reading, and writing skills needed to to independent living. Betty’s provides each compete resident with a room of her own in a safe, clean 2. Vocational Training: Helps SNAP clients develop environment and two meals a day. Residents new skills in synch with job market also receive their wraparound support services requirements, so they have skills employers to address barriers in finding and obtaining want employment and housing. Betty’s Rapid 3. Job Search Training: Teaches SNAP clients how Rehousing hopes to transition women to to search for a job and develop the tools they independent living within 3-6 months. need to be successful, including resume help, Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. interview skills, career testing, and more To refer someone or apply, call 617-482-1126. 4. Job Search: Assists SNAP clients with the right • Permanent affordable housing – Gatehouse: connections to help them find and secure a job The top floors of the Project Place building hold To find a provider, please visit the website and click 14 affordable studio-apartments for single “Find a Provider”. This will allow clients to partner with occupants. Each furnished unit contains a education and training providers near them. kitchenette and private bathroom with all Languages: Spanish amenities. Residents must have income, lead a sober lifestyle and qualify for disability Social Security: Benefits After Incarceration (substance abuse can be considered a See in Category: Administrative Issues disability). Rental subsidies are available for all Solutions at Work units, and residents should expect to pay one See in Category: Clothing third of their income towards rent. Call 617- 542-3740. St. Francis House See in Category: Emergency Assistance 46 Employment Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children STRIVE – Boston Employment Services, Inc. See in Category: Women 651 Washington Street Dorchester, MA 02124 Straight Ahead Ministries Phone: 617-825-1800 791 Main Street [email protected]; jri.org/services/community/strive Worcester, MA 01610 Phone: 508-753-8700 Services: STRIVE Boston is a Workforce Readiness Fax: 508-438-0182 program that envisions a world where everyone has the [email protected]; straightahead.org/ opportunity to achieve economic self-sufficiency, Services: They operate three Youth Re-Entry Programs dignity, and a promising future. STRIVE Boston helps in Massachusetts (serving Fall River, New Bedford, chronically unemployed men and women realize their Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Taunton, and Worcester) that potential to find and keep jobs that promise sustainable offer a variety of services for youth as they leave the livelihoods and personal growth. Please note that the juvenile justice system and transition back into their bulk of their services are now being offered virtually. communities. For more detail, please click on the STRIVE COVID 19 update: https://jri.org/sites/default/files/2020- With the support of case managers, mentors, and peer 06/STRIVE%20COVID- leaders, youth work towards personal and professional 19%20updated%20Letter%20623%20%281%29.pdf. goals through educational services, job-readiness training, leadership development, and volunteer service The START program (adult) is a five-week, full-time opportunities. workshop that simulates the rigors of a full-time job followed by an employer week where employers offer. Straight Ahead’s Engagement Model: Their youth commit to make challenging changes – to break ties • Topics covered include defining professional with gangs, stop using drugs, complete their education, development, attitudes, perceptions and and develop a strong work ethic. Their engagement stereotypes, writing resumes and thank-you model is highly relational, integrating professional case notes, interviewing techniques, how to search management with adult and peer mentoring for employment, coping with rejection, relationships and a comprehensive set of activities and professional dress, and financial literacy opportunities • Other curriculum components include Straight2Work Job Readiness Training: Their most vocabulary work, writing assignments, intensive re-entry program, Straight2Work, is a unique computer training, participation in mock job readiness training program that combines practical, interviews as well as GED/Hi-SET coursework hands-on work experience with character and offered in collaboration with their community leadership development to ensure real, lasting change. partner X-Cel, Inc. Working closely with a case manager, youth gain • They have employer partners in three employable skills and industry certifications, increase pathways: Customer Service, Social Services and life skills and develop resumes before securing long- Healthcare term employment in the community • This service includes case management, job Other Locations: placement and follow-up services Northeastern Massachusetts Service hours: 9am - 5pm 60 Island Street Requirements & Restrictions: Valid U.S ID required, Lawrence, MA 01840 documents that establish employment eligibility, and P: 978-808-4054 must speak English Southeastern Massachusetts 360 Coggeshall Street Successful Release New Bedford, MA 02746 successfulrelease.com/ P: 508-642-9287 Services: The Successful Release team is on a mission to Languages: Spanish, English, Khmer help former offenders lead successful lives after their release. Leveraging the internet and a nationwide network of similarly motivated organizations, Successful 47 Employment Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Release strives to provide helpful resources to help MA (ULEM) Coding Boot Camp Training program. The create a smooth transition from prison. Program is a 20-week full stack training for adults The website includes a list of companies that employ looking to become a computer programmer. The felons including specific information on the hiring MSIMBO training program aims to open the door of process and each company’s policy for hiring those with opportunity for women and people of color to begin felony convictions. There are also various employment careers in the IT industry, and in so doing address the IT help guides and reentry resources. industries’ need for ethnically diverse, skilled workers. Students earn 14 credit hours towards a degree from Suffolk County Community Corrections Center (CCC) Benjamin Franklin Institute Technology. Funded by See in Category: Education Comcast, Verizon, BNY Mellon, and Bank of America. United South End Settlements This is a stipend eligible program. Section 30 approved. See in Category: Education The Domestic and Sexual Violence Project for the Urban United Way’s 211 Helpline League of Eastern MA—This project is sponsored by the See in Category: Hotlines Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)- partners, Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts Violence (expertise in Domestic Violence and Faith), The 88 Warren Street Center for Hope and Healing (expertise in Sexual Roxbury, MA 02119 Assault), Casa Myrna, (expertise in Domestic Violence Phone: 617-442-4519 and homelessness) and two of the Boston Police Fax: 617-442-0562 Departments Domestic Violence Consultants. This [email protected]; www.ulem.org project is an education and action program designed Services: specifically for Boston’s inner-city communities, to train Customer Service & Leadership Training (CSLT) – This service providers and clergy in culturally specific training prepares participants for work through domestic and sexual violence intervention and classroom learning and meaningful service activities. It prevention strategies. In addition, the project provides is designed for people who are currently unemployed, referrals and education to victims and survivors of have limited work experience, and want to be job- domestic and sexual violence who are looking for ready. The CSLT program gives graduates the work support and referrals. experience they need to build their resumes and DigiUL: Urban League Digital Marketing Lab- A full-time promote their skills effectively. This is a Stipend eligible 16-week program designed to teach all the program. fundamentals of graphic design, branding, marketing – Computer Literacy and Internet Knowledge (CLIK)—The both from the print and interactive perspective. At the CLIK curriculum is designed to help students learn how end of the 16-week program, the knowledge gained can to become successful in an online learning be used to land a job in the field working as a design environment. This program is for individuals who have professional, you will have a professional level portfolio- some but limited computer skills and want to become both print and online that will have been vetted by computer savvy. Partnership with Tech Goes Home working professionals in the field and you will have had some working experience in the field. This is a stipend Employment Resource Center (ERC) – The ERC provides eligible program. Section 30 approved. resources and services to individuals that are looking to upscale their business or skills. The ERC is available to Requirements & Restrictions: Must be 18 years or older trainees, job seekers, entrepreneurs, and students to with a valid ID and must have a GED or High School apply for jobs or research for business opportunities. Equivalency The space offers the flexibility for small business Waiting time: Call office for program wait times owners, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs to use as Work Opportunity Tax Credit, U.S. Department of its office space. This center grants its members access Labor to computers, internet, printer, fax, and copy machine. See in Category: Administrative Issues MSIMBO Urban League Coding Academy – MSIMBO means “code” in Swahili, is the Urban League of Eastern 48 Employment Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
YMCA Training, Inc. 2nd floor 18 Tremont Street Roxbury, MA 02119 Suite 400 Phone: 617-541-2600 Boston, MA 02108 Fax: 617-541-2660 Phone: 617-542-1800 [email protected]; www.youboston.org [email protected]; ymcaboston.org/traininginc Services: Employment as well as Case Management Who to Contact: Raysa Stroud, Intake Coordinator Services for young adults ages 14-24 years old. Services: The YMCA Training, Inc. program is an Emphasis on HSD/Hiset completion, subsidized jobs and intensive 20-week, full-time (600 hours) computerized career trainings, as well as private sector job placement. office skills training and employment program. Career Advisors and Case Managers will build a plan for Designed to replicate the expectations of a professional independence through education attainment and office environment, the training prepares participants consistent employment. with both the technical and job readiness skills to Service hours: 9am-5pm typically, however flexible succeed. Requirements & Restrictions The 20-week training program includes: • Boston Residents • Intensive computerized office skills and employment program training • 14-24 years old • Microsoft Office 365 & Zoom, Customer Service, • Previous or current involvement in criminal Resume Writing, Interview Practice, Job Search justice system and or gang involvement & Mentoring Waiting time: Case by case basis, typically none for • Opportunities for specialization in: Business intake. Administration, Medical Office and Health Languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Insurance, and Human Services Verdean Creole To apply, call (617) 542-1800 to schedule an Information Session. At the Information Session, you YouthBuild Boston See in Category: Education will learn more about the program, complete an application, take an assessment, and interview with staff. If accepted, staff will work with you on the next steps.
Due to Covid-19 they no longer have in-person info sessions. Interested individuals should apply by visiting their program application at https://sway.office.com/JCVZjxQMLotrsW8O?ref=email. Service hours: M - F: 8:30am - 5pm Requirements & Restrictions: Must be legal to work in US, and able to attend training and employment every day, on time. If English is not first language, must have advanced ESOL fluency. Certain CORI’s will preclude some employment options. Acceptance will be affected by funding sources.
Waiting time: New program cycle starts every 3-4 months
Languages: English Youth Options Unlimited (YOU) Boston 7 Palmer Street
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Faith-Based Organizations Covid-19 update: https://www.bereaboston.org/covid- 19-update Arlington Street Church Friday Night Supper Service hours: Office hours: M-F: 9am - 1pm 351 Boylston Street Requirements & Restrictions: Bring photo ID for food Boston, MA 02116 pantry, as well as bags for food. Phone: 617-221-6402 [email protected]; Bethel Baptist Church www.fridaynightsupper.org/ 18 Saint James Street Who to Contact: Cameron McDonald Roxbury, MA 02119 Services: COVID-19 Update: The Friday Night Supper Phone: 617-445-0584 Program is currently entirely to go at this point and until Fax: 617-445-0052 further notice. Bathrooms are available. Food is served [email protected]; out of the front of the Arlington Street Church. www.bethelbaptistchurchroxbury.com/ Every Friday, the Friday Night Supper Program (FNSP) Who to Contact: Rev. Franklin Murray, Sr. - Pastor provides a free hot nutritious meal to anyone who Services: would like one. No registration or sign up is required, no Worship services: Sunday at 7:30am and 11am questions are asked. While the majority of guests are Sunday School & New Member’s Class: 9:30am currently male, everyone, including women and Additional programs, activities, groups: children are welcome. The FNSP provides a Women Bible study: Wednesday at 5:30pm and 6:30pm Only table for female guests and their children. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 7:30pm Other services provided during Friday Night supper include: Free Meal and Food Pantry: Call for days, times and eligibility requirements. Clothing Closet Clothing is provided to those in need every Friday. Their church door is open- Please remember to wear a Guest put in a request for clothes from 5pm-6pm and mask and practice social distancing. the Clothing Closet opens at 6:30pm. Service hours: M-F 8am-4:15pm Resource Cards Boston Rescue Mission Information is provided that details free resources for See in Category: Other Groups guests to access in the city of Boston. Resource Cards Brighton Allston Congregational Church: Thrift Shop include Employment, Education Services, and Health and Food Pantry Care Services. 404 Washington Street Service hours: COVID-19 hours: 5:30-6:30pm Brighton, MA 02135 Berea Seventh Day Adventist Phone: 617-254-4046 108 Seaver Street [email protected]; brightonucc.org/whatwedo/ Dorchester, MA 02121 Services: Phone: 617-427-2201 Thrift Shop: [email protected]; Closed until further notice due to COVID-19. www.bereaboston.org/ Food Pantry: Baskets and Community Supper Services: The Allston Brighton Food Pantry provides food baskets Church Food Pantry: for eligible Allston Brighton residents. Distribution The pantry is open on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each occurs at the church at 404 Washington Street, Brighton month from 8am – 11am. However, if you have an Center, on the second and fourth Saturdays of the emergency for food, please call Berea Food Pantry at month between 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. 617-427-2201. In November, there is only one distribution, the second Please note that due to COVID-19 they have postponed Saturday before of the month. There is no need to call their regular registration process until further notice. in advance but please bring a picture ID and proof of
50 Faith-Based Organizations Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org residency in order to register for these baskets. They join their long standing partner parishes to welcome the contain general groceries and everything you need for a broader homeless community every Monday at 11:30 festive Thanksgiving meal. a.m. In December, baskets are distributed on the second Lunch is served every Monday from 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 Saturday only. p.m. in Sproat Hall. Visit Allston Brighton Food Pantry website for Monday Lunch is still running, but in a modified manner information, restrictions, and dates. to comply with the CDC and other public health All are welcome to the Community Supper, now being requirements. They will be serving individually prepared handled as a takeout, every Wednesday night from 4:30 meals. to 6pm Service hours: Mondays, 11:30am - 12:45pm Service hours: Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston Thrift Shop: Closed until further notice 275 West Broadway Food Baskets: Second and fourth Saturdays of the Boston, MA 02127 month, 9:30am - 1pm Phone: 617-464-8500 Community Supper: Takeout every Wednesday 4:30- Fax: 617- 451-0337 6pm [email protected]; www.ccab.org/ Requirements & Restrictions: Food Basket Distribution Services: Catholic Charities operates a number of Policies community service centers in eastern Massachusetts. • One food basket per household per month The centers provide a wide variety of support services • Food baskets are provided only to residents of including some basic needs emergency assistance, Allston and Brighton, MA. education and training programs, transitional housing • Distribution is the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of for families, child care, and family counseling and each month, except November and December support. • On distribution days, the food pantry is open Programs: from 10am – 1pm. • Basic Needs • Each basket contains approximately a 3 to 4 day supply of food • Child Care • Proper ID and proof of need (see below) is • Children & Youth required to receive a food basket • Counseling Required Documents: • Community Interpreter Services • Photo ID • Current phone, gas or electric bill with your • Education name & address (only one of these is needed) • Elder Services • One of the following: welfare (EBT) card, • Family Support MassHealth card, SSI papers, unemployment • Nurse Assistant Training papers, or a referral/letter from either a social worker, medical doctor, registered nurse, the • Post Adoption & Search Red Cross, Pastor, Priest, Rabbi, or Project • Refugee Services Bread’s Hunger Hotline. • Shelter Services Cathedral Church of St. Paul • Sunset Point Camp 138 Tremont Street • Teen Center at St. Peter’s Boston, MA 02111 For COVID-19 Program Updates, visit Phone: 617-482-5800 https://www.ccab.org/CCAB-COVID-19-UPDATES. [email protected]; www.stpaulboston.org/manna Service hours: See CCAB website Services: The Monday Lunch program has been serving a freshly cooked hot lunch for anyone who desires it Other Locations: every week for thirty years. MANNA volunteers now Catholic Charities Program Locations 51 Faith-Based Organizations Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Catholic Charities Labouré Center 781-605-3330 275 West Broadway, South Boston Centro Comunitário Vida Nova 617-464-8500 320 Boston Ave Also home to Refugee and Immigration Services & Medford, MA 02155 Community Interpreter Services Phone: 781-901-9170
[email protected]; Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigration Services https://ministeriovidanova.com/web/ 275 West Broadway, South Boston 617-464-8100 Who to Contact: Claudineia Araujo Services: IBVN Church runs a community center that Catholic Charities North provides clothes, shoes, toys, books, furniture, and 117 North Common Street, Lynn domestic utilities to those in need. The community 781-593-2312 center is run primarily by Portuguese speakers, but English speakers may also be available. Catholic Charities South Service hours: Saturdays 9am-1pm 169 Court Street, Brockton Other Locations: 508-587-0815 29 Montvale Ave
Catholic Charities Yawkey Center Woburn, MA 01801 185 Columbia Road, Dorchester Requirements & Restrictions: 617-506-6600 Please wear a mask. Merrimack Valley Catholic Charities Please bring bags. 70 Lawrence Street, Lowell Languages: Portuguese, English 978-452-1421 Common Cathedral (Ecclesia Ministries, Inc.) Catholic Charities Child Care Locations 15 Newbury Street Yawkey Child Care Center Boston, MA 02116 185 Columbia Road, Dorchester Phone: 617-247-4927 617-506-6600 [email protected]; commoncathedral.org/ Nazareth Child Care Center Who to Contact: Amanda Grant-Rose 19 St. Joseph Street, Jamaica Plain Services: Current Program Schedule 617-522-4040 Sunday Worship: Lynn Child Care Center Brewer Foundation on the Boston Common 37 North Federal Street, Lynn 12:30 PM ~ Simple Lunch 781-598-5547 ext. 230 1:00 PM ~ Outdoor Sunday Worship Malden Early Education and Learning Program Tuesday Street Outreach: 77 Salem Street, Malden Downtown Boston & Back Bay area 781-397-6055 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Peabody Child Care Center Wednesday: 13 Pulaski Street, Peabody Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. 978-532-6860 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM ~ Morning check-in, common art, Labouré Child Care Center Leadership Meeting (25 max) 275 West Broadway, South Boston Bathrooms, coffee & snacks open to all 617-464-8500 Thursday: Home Based Family Child Care Emmanuel Church, 12 Newbury St. 6 Pleasant Street, Suite 220 8:30 AM – 1:00PM ~ Morning check-in & BostonWarm Malden, MA (25 max)
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Bathrooms, coffee & snacks open to all • The Friday Café, a weekly daytime drop-in Requirements & Restrictions: Target population: program, offers a welcoming space where Homeless, previously incarcerated people. homeless and housed adults can gather and get to know each other Faith Lutheran Church: Faith Kitchen • During the COVID pandemic, the Friday Café has Faith Lutheran Church shifted to an outdoor format, serving meals to 311 Broadway go and distributing clothing and other essentials Cambridge, MA 02139 on the church lawn Phone: 617-945-4395 • COVID Hours: Fridays from 1:00-3:00pm [email protected]; www.faithkitchen.org/ • Contact: Rev. Kate Layzer ([email protected]) Services: In partnership with Temple Beth Shalom, Faith Online Worship Time: Sundays at 11am ET Lutheran Church warm and nutritious serves to-go meals at 6:30 p.m. on the second and last Tuesdays of Additional programs, activities, groups include Bible each month in the parking lot at 311 Broadway. You studies and prayer groups – please call for times. don’t have to sign up ahead of time. Just come! There Service hours: Limited Building Hours during COVID-19. are often seconds, which they begin giving away at 7:00 During normal times their building is open from 7 am to pm. 11 pm almost every day. Their office is staffed Monday- Service hours: Second and last Tuesdays each month, Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, during the program year. In the 6:30pm. summer months, the office is closed on Fridays. Requirements & Restrictions: Shelter: Agency referral First Church in Cambridge only, no walk-ins; no registered sex offenders; must be 11 Garden Street drug and alcohol free. Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-547-2724 First Parish Church: Tuesday Meals Program Fax: 617-354-4185 3 Church Street [email protected]; Cambridge, MA 02138 www.firstchurchcambridge.org Phone: 617-876-7772 Who to Contact: Senior Minister [email protected];firstparishcambridge.o rg/testing/ Services: Who to Contact: Carol Lewis Homeless Ministries Services: Dinner is provided on Tuesdays, both on site The First Church Shelter and to go. • Their 14-bed men’s shelter operates 365 days a Service hours: Tuesdays, 5:30pm year and makes a long-term investment in individuals, including a full spectrum of support Requirements & Restrictions: Must be sober. services to assist in residents’ specific needs as Greater Love Tabernacle, Inc. they seek stable housing 101 Nightingale Street • During non-COVID times, the Shelter opens at Dorchester, MA 02124 6:00 every evening, and guests depart by 7:00 Phone: 617-740-9480 in the morning. In March 2020, however, the Fax: 617-740-9484 Shelter rapidly transitioned to become a [email protected]; www.grltabernacle.org/ daytime as well as a nighttime refuge for Services: guests. It remains open 24 hours a day, 7 days a Church Office Hours: week. Tuesday-Friday: 9:30AM-5:30PM • Contact: Jim Stewart Sunday: 1PM-2PM ([email protected] or 617- 661- Service Times: 1873) Wednesdays The Friday Café Evangelistic Teaching Bible Study: 7:00PM
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Sundays Harvest on Vine by St. Mary-St. Catherine of Siena Worship Experiences: 8:30AM & 10:30AM Parish Children’s Sunday School: 11:00AM-12:30PM 49 Vine Street Charlestown, MA 02129 COVID-19 Update: Due to the recommended Phone: 617-990-7314 government precautions outlined for the Coronavirus, [email protected]; Greater Love Tabernacle will not meet at its 101 stmarystcatherine.org/resources/parish-directory/ Nightingale location until further notice. They will instead meet using their Facebook and Instagram LIVE Services: Food Pantry: Each family receives platforms, in addition to the Greater Love Tabernacle approximately one week’s worth of food (e.g. pasta, Prayer Line rice, cereal, canned fruit, vegetables, soup, milk and meat and basic toiletries (e.g. toilet paper, tissue paper, Programs soap). Each family may shop according to personal • GLT Prison Prevention Ministry: Under the preference. Shopping allows families to select the food leadership of Reverend Emanuel Hutcherson, they want, so that no food is wasted. the Future Hope Apprenticeship Program looks to assist with job opportunities in the Service hours: The second Saturday of every month at construction trade, along with life-skills, 10 am; the last Tuesday of the month at 2 pm education and job readiness training for a Requirements & Restrictions: All residents of sustainable FUTURE. The program is committed Charlestown in need are welcome. Registration occurs to providing professional guidance and on the days of distribution, families looking to join supportive resources to underserved should bring photo identification that indicates neighborhoods. They aim to build community Charlestown residency. and family leaders by replacing fear and doubt Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church with HOPE. 62 Harvard Ave • HIV/AIDS Ministry: Their mission is to increase Allston, MA 02134 HIV & AIDS awareness in the Christian Phone: 617-787-7625 community, while empowering them to serve [email protected]; hrocboston.org/ people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. As Services: Open Door Soup Kitchen & St. Bridget’s Food an outreach ministry, they are particularly Pantry interested in reaching those with little • knowledge about the disease to better assist in They have been serving warm, nutritious, prevention and treatment. homemade meals every Monday evening for over 30 years! Please feel free to reach out by calling the confidential GLT HIV/AIDS Service Helpline at (617) 740-9480. • They serve Allston, Brighton, and neighboring communities Harvard Square Churches Meal Program • St. Bridget’s pantry also supplies grocery bags of Zero Garden Street food to their guests Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-966-6217 Service hours: Open Door Dinner: Mondays 6 - 7pm Phone: 857-529-9461 [email protected]; harvardsquaremeals.org Loaves and Fishes, First Korean Church First Korean Church Who to Contact: Judith Siemen, co-director (617-966- 35 Magazine St 6217) Cambridge, MA 02139 Services: The Christ Church of Cambridge operates a www.firstkoreanchurch.org/Home/Ministry#mealProgr weekly community supper; this meal service takes place am every Thursday at 5pm. Services: Serves a buffet dinner every Saturday at 5:30. Other Locations: The Harvard Square Churches Meal Food pantry also available. Program hosts an evening meal every Thursday night at 5:00 at Christ Church, Harvard Square, Cambridge. 54 Faith-Based Organizations Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Massachusetts Ave. Baptist Church: Project MANNA Pilgrim Church 146 Hampshire Street 540 Columbia Road Cambridge, MA 02139 Dorchester, MA 02125 Church Office: 617-868-4853 Phone: 617-282-0456 Fax: 617-868-1511 [email protected]; [email protected];www.massavebaptist www.pilgrimchurch1862.org/ church.com/project-manna/ Services: Services: Project Manna is the Massachusetts Avenue • Free community lunch every Saturday from 12 Baptist Church’s outreach to the displaced and the p.m. – 1:30 p.m. community. Under the direction of Rev. Brenda A. • Food Pantry every Wednesday from 10 a.m. – 2 Brown, Executive Director, nutritional assistance is p.m. (or until food boxes run out) provided to enhance the quality of life and decrease the Please bring documentation of name incidence of hunger for low-income families and o and address individuals o You must bring your own bags or a The Project Manna Soup Kitchen has resumed on carriage Mondays ONLY from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Due to o You can get food once a month (but not COVID-19 meals are served on a takeout basis only. two weeks in a row) Once per month outreach to the community also o Numbers for getting food are includes the Epic Program, a food pantry that feeds an distributed starting at 7:00 a.m. average of 100 families per month. Notifications for • Bible Study: Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. upcoming food pantries and Project Manna related • On Saturdays, Pilgrim church distributes food events can be found here: on Boston Common (by Brewer fountain) to https://www.massavebaptistchurch.com/project- those who need a free lunch manna/. o 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Requirements & Restrictions: Must bring ID. • Thrift Shop Open Tuesdays-Fridays 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 Paulist Center o p.m. 5 Park Street Open Saturdays by chance Boston, MA 02108 o 617-807-0540 Phone: 617-742-4460 o Flea Market Fax: 617-720-5756 • Saturdays in the parking lot 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 [email protected];www.paulistcenter.org/get- involved/social-justice/ p.m. Languages: English, ASL Transportation Google Maps Services: The Wednesday Night Supper Club Saint Cecilia Parish Free hot meals served every Wednesday at 6pm. 18 Belvidere St. Boston, MA 02115 Emergency Food Pantry Phone: 617-536-4548 Open every non-holiday Tuesday afternoon, 1:30pm- Fax: 617-536-1781 3pm, for those with an immediate, critical need for [email protected]; www.stceciliaboston.org food. If there are 5 Tuesdays in a month, the food Services: A Catholic parish where all are welcome. pantry is closed on the 5th Tuesday. The food pantry is located on the first floor, two doors down from the Due to COVID-19, Saint Cecilia Parish is only offering reception area. One visit for one grocery bag a month is two Masses (pre-registration required) at 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. the operating guideline. Service hours: Service hours: See above Mass times: Requirements & Restrictions: Photo ID with a Boston- Sat: 5p.m. vicinity area address. One visit for one grocery bag a Sun: 11:30 a.m. month is the operating guideline. 55 Faith-Based Organizations Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
St. James Helping Hands Food Pantry Requirements & Restrictions: People seeking assistance 364 Rindge Avenue should bring photo identification. Visits are limited to Cambridge, MA 02140 once per month. [email protected]; www.stjamescambridge.org/ministries-1
Who to Contact: JT Minor, Food Pantry Coordinator: [email protected] [Note: English only]
Services: Helping Hand Food Pantry is an all-volunteer operation that provides groceries on the second Saturday of every month to individuals in need of assistance. During St. James’s redevelopment, the Food Pantry will be held at Fresh Pond Apartments, 364 Rindge Avenue, Cambridge.
Service hours: 9:30am-12:30pm on the second Saturday of each month
Requirements & Restrictions: Due to COVID-19, they ask that all guests arrived with a face covering. They also ask that all guests form a line on the ramp adjacent to the pantry entrance. A masked volunteer will bring you a produce bag as well as a box of dry goods
[Note: All volunteer staff will be wearing face-masks and gloves in order to maximize the safety of their guests] Waiting time: 45 minutes Languages: Spanish
Straight Ahead Ministries See in Category: Employment
Weekend Emergency Food Pantry – Church of the Covenant 67 Newbury Street Church of the Covenant Boston, MA 02116 Phone: 617-266-7480 [email protected]; www.cotcbos.org/social-justice.html
Services: The Weekend Emergency Food Pantry program offered by Church of the Covenant provides free groceries and other necessities to Boston residents in urgent need. It operates out of the back entry at Church of the Covenant. The building is located at the corner of Berkeley and Newbury Streets in Boston’s Back Bay and the food pantry entry is down the alley off of Berkeley Street. Service hours: Sat & Sun: 10am - 12pm
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Families See in Category: Legal EMERGE (Batterer’s Intervention) 365Dad Inc. See in Category: Domestic Violence 1 Westinghouse Plaza Suite A101 FamilyAid Boston Hyde Park, MA 02136 3815 Washington Street Phone: 617-248-7105 Boston, MA 02130 [email protected]; www.365dad.net Phone: 617-542-7286 [email protected]; www.familyaidboston.org Who to Contact: Marv Neal Services: FamilyAid Boston empowers parents and Services: 365DAD’s mission is to connect, equip and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain transform men with positive parenting practices to housing and build strong foundations for their children’s build better families through education, support, and future. Services include: services. • Homelessness prevention for families at risk of Programs: losing their homes • Group & meeting facilitation • Emergency shelter for families who become • Program trainings homeless • Outing coordination • Housing supports for families returning to housing after a period of homelessness • Professional development for other providers Service hours: M-F 9am – 5pm • Consultations Requirements & Restrictions: Different programs have • Service referrals differing requirements. All require that an individual or Service hours: M-F 8am - 6pm family’s last established residency is in Boston. Income Languages: English, Spanish guidelines may apply to some programs. Ask when talking to staff. Asian-American Civic Association See in Category: Education Languages: Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole Bay Cove Human Services See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Fathers’ Uplift Inc. 12 Southern Avenue Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) Adult Dorchester, MA 02124-2012 Education Phone: 617-708-0870 See in Category: Education Fax: 617-516-8274 Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) [email protected]; www.fathersuplift.org See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Services: Fathers’ UpLift is the country’s first mental Casa Esperanza, Inc. health and substance abuse treatment facility for See in Category: Substance Use fathers and families, helping fathers become and remain emotionally stable for their children. Fathers’ Casa Myrna UpLift uses peer coaching, father-child therapy, See in Category: Domestic Violence trainings, youth programs, and support for incarcerated Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston and recently released fathers to honor and rehabilitate See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations the relationship between thousands of fathers and families in the Boston area. In their outpatient clinic, Centro Comunitário Vida Nova See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations over 1,000 fathers and families have received mental health services from clinicians trained in trauma who City Mission: Homelessness Prevention reflect the population being served. See in Category: Emergency Assistance Service hours: Mon: 9am-7:30pm, Tues: 9am-5pm, De Novo: Center for Justice and Healing Wed: 9am-7:30pm, Thurs: 9am-5pm, Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat: appointment only, Sun: Closed 57 Families Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Languages: French, Haitian Creole • Monthly educational speakers Harbor Health • Monthly health screenings and health See in Category: Physical and Mental Health education presentations • Case management services Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center See in Category: Physical and Mental Health • Translation & interpretation services in Spanish, English, and Chinese Heading Home • Pickup and delivery of prescriptions See in Category: Shelters medications for isolated, frail, and home bound House of Hope, Inc. – Lowell elders See in Category: Housing • Medical Escorts for medical appointments Institute for Health and Recovery – Project Promise • Trips to local shopping malls and recreational 255 River St events are provided Mattapan, MA 02126 • Weekly Fair Foods distribution program Phone: 781-974-7787 • Cooking and healthy eating classes [email protected]; www.healthrecovery.org/projects/project-promise/ • Heating fuel assistance application processing Who to Contact: Jennifer Quintana, Intake and Services • Emergency support service referrals Coordinator • Health screening/services and health services Services: IHR, in collaboration with Boston Medical referrals Center’s SPARK Center and Project RESPECT, designed • Weekly senior exercise programs Project Promise, a day treatment program serving • Access to a computer lab and computer training pregnant and parenting women and their children, Education Services: located at the SPARK Center, a model childcare program offering services for children and families whose lives • Preschool Programs are affected by medical, emotional and/or behavioral • Toddler Childcare/Early Head Start challenges. Promise serves pregnant /postpartum • After-school Program women and their children with counseling and recovery • Parent Handbooks services to support parent/child. Community Services: Project Promise is now accepting referrals. To make a • Information and referrals to education and job referral, please contact their Intake and Services training programs Coordinator, Jennifer Quintana by phone or text at 781- 974-7787 or by email at • Weekly food distribution programs in [email protected]. collaboration with Fair Foods John F. Kennedy Family Services Center • Positive parenting classes and food shopping on 15 Tufts Street a budget 2nd Floor • Healthy cooking classes and food shopping on a Charlestown, MA 02129 budget Phone: (617) 241-8866 ext. 1352 • Classes in budget preparation and financial [email protected]; www.kennedycenter.org/ literacy training Who to Contact: Crystal Galvin • Assistance in accessing all forms of local, State, Services: The Kennedy Center develops and operates Federal, and corporate low-income support high quality programs that serve a wide range of ages services such as fuel assistance, food stamps and needs to residents of Charlestown and the greater (SNAP), housing vouchers, WIC, Summer Works Boston community. Services provided: jobs, and low cost internet and computers, etc. Eldercare Services: • Emergency support services for those that are: • Daily social activities in need of food, clothing, shelter, transportation 58 Families Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
services to critical appointments; information • Community Conversations and Community about and/or referral to organizations that Events provide services for individuals/families dealing • For more information, please contact Pierre with issues of domestic violence, substance Balthazar at abuse/addiction, and/or mental health [email protected] concerns. Food Services • Information and referrals for basic health • Emergency Food Pantry screening services for children and adults. • Thanksgiving Turkey Drive • Annual Holiday Gift Drive that provides seasonal gifts for over 500 children from low income • For more information, please contact Alex families. Veloria at [email protected] • Annual Community Pot Luck Luncheon. Adult Enrichment Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese • The Breakfast Club • Upgraded Technology Lab Just-A-Start Corporation See in Category: Employment • For more information, please contact Pierre Balthazar at La Alianza Hispana [email protected] See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Service hours: Depends on program, check website. Lamour Clinic Health Institute Languages: English with translation software assistance See in Category: Physical and Mental Health if needed Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Children (MSPCC) Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House 125 Hartwell Avenue 71 Cherry Street Lexington, MA 02421 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 781-861-0890 Phone: 617-547-4680 Fax: 617-983-5854 Fax: 617-497-0166 www.mspcc.org/ [email protected]; Services: MSPCC is a private, non-profit society www.margaretfullerhouse.org/ dedicated to leadership in protecting and promoting the Services: The mission of the Margaret Fuller House rights and well-being of children and families. Services (MFNH) is to strengthen and empower youth, families, include: pregnancy and parenting support, clinical and community residents. They work to address the mental health counseling and care coordination, economic, social, and political inequities that shape the adoptive and foster parent support, and adoption lives and futures of Cambridge area residents. services. Programs: Other Locations: Youth Services Holyoke • Leaders of Today Peace Academy Out of School 9 Sullivan Road Time Program (Ages 4-1/2 to 12) Holyoke, MA 01040 • Leaders of Today Summer Peace Academy Telephone: 413-532-9446 (Ages 4-1/2 to 12, youth councilors, ages 13-17) Lawrence • For more information, please contact Megan 15 Union Street Ryan at [email protected] Building E, Suite 115 Community Advancement Services Lawrence, MA 01840 Telephone: 978-682-9222 • Outreach and Positive Interventions Lowell
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151 Warren Street experiences, thoughts, and feelings in an environment Lowell, MA 01852 of safety, trust, and respect. Telephone: 978-937-3087 Supportive Facilitation – In its non-judgmental program Worcester model, facilitators are trained professionals who engage 108 Belmont Street fully, as equals. They strive to create an atmosphere Worcester, MA 01605 that promotes open and honest discussion. Telephone: 508-753-2967 Other Locations: Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department New York Office See in Category: Other Groups 80 Maiden Lane, 11th Floor New York, NY 10038 Mothers for Justice and Equality (212) 430-5909 See in Category: Women Requirements & Restrictions: No matter where you are Parenting Journey from, no matter what your background, you are 366 Somerville Avenue welcome at Parenting Journey. They work with Somerville, MA 02143 mothers, fathers, and caregivers from all walks of life, Phone: 617-628-8815 raising children of all ages. parentingjourney.org/ Languages: English, Portuguese, and Spanish Services: COVID-19 Update: Parenting Journey is Parents Helping Parents of Massachusetts currently offering groups virtually–their virtual delivery See in Category: Support Groups does not include a meal nor child care. Parenting Journey focuses on partnering with parents to Project Hope build stronger families by developing their inner 550 Dudley Street strengths, life skills, and networks of resources they Roxbury, MA 02119 need to succeed. Phone: 617-442-1880 Fax: 617-238-0473 In a Parenting Journey program, a small group of [email protected]; www.prohope.org/ parents and caregivers meet for 2 hours a week for 12 or 14 weeks. The program includes activities, Who to Contact: Main Office discussions, a family-style meal, and complimentary Services: Project Hope provides shelter, education, job childcare. During the final session, family and friends training, childcare, and housing support services to are invited to attend a Graduation Ceremony. At this families. Below is the list of Project Hope programs with celebration, Parenting Journeys honor the participation, enrollment opportunities: accomplishments, and strengths of each program Housing Services participant. Project Hope partners with several community and city Parenting Journey Programs: agencies, Boston Public Schools, and healthcare • Parenting Journey I providers to identify and provide housing services to • Parenting Journey for Fathers children and families experiencing housing instability. • Parenting Journey in Recovery Project Hope is particularly proud of accomplishments • Parenting in America with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) • Parenting Journey II and other community partners and city agencies to provide re-housing services and case management Program Features: services to children and families at risk of or Nutritious Meal – Start each session with a family-style experiencing homelessness in neighborhood public meal while connecting with others in the group. schools. Childcare – Onsite childcare is provided during each For specific questions, please email Project Hope’s session. Housing team [email protected] or call at Group Participation – Each session will include group 617-442-1880 x242 activities and discussion. Participants can share their Adult Education 60 Families Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
The Academic Skill Building for Adults program prepares Workforce Development Interest form: you to successfully enroll in a HiSET or GED program, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKNIxYFT increase employment opportunities, and improve XuMn0FFrGmCLIk6tHLKDbXXUCRz_ztql- overall communication skills. Curriculum is designed to SNBQtQA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1XL5Q2lXRJU8WFxVUr maximize learning in the classroom and beyond. U-Ad1Fz6oWAnsGk4m7iz4RMG442WzEL1NlqHqOI Dedicated Project Hope teachers and staff assist with For general questions— Contact Tamera Boggs at 617- educational, employment, and wellness goals through 442-1880 x230 or [email protected] or click on the personalized support. This program is ideal for someone link above to fill out an interest form. Someone from who hasn’t been in a school setting for years or looking Project Hope will contact you. for next steps after completing an English for Speakers Family Childcare of Other Languages (ESOL) program. The Project Hope Family Childcare is a growing network For more information — Contact Patricia Goulbourne at of neighborhood-based family educators in Roxbury and 617-442-1880 x253 or email surrounding communities that currently serve more [email protected]. than one hundred low-to mid-income children each Family Shelter year. Project Hope is excited to expand their network of Founded in the early 1980s, Project Hope addressed the phenomenal educators, and they invite you to consider emerging problem of family homelessness in the becoming part of this successful initiative. Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods. The Family Project Hope will support educators with the annual Shelter was one of the first homeless shelters for certification and state compliance requirements from families in the state and remains a model for its the Department of Early Education and Care. Project respectful and empowering approach. Hope also provides technical support for billing, data Today the Family Shelter offers a haven for 11 single tracking, policies, and systems to help you with running mothers and their children. Each family has a private a childcare business. Project Hope will promote your room and access to a communal kitchen, dining room, program to families seeking child care services, and will living room, and children’s activity room. They receive assist with enrollment and documentation. They also assistance to find safe and affordable housing for their provide educators with training and professional families and access to educational and workforce development so you can achieve the highest level development programs. Their programming is designed Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). to promote confidence and empowerment, helping For more information — Contact Djena Jacques, at women find the courage to prevail against tremendous [email protected] or 617-442-1880. odds to obtain a better life. Service hours: M – F: 9am – 5pm If you need more information about how to access emergency shelter in Massachusetts call the Requirements & Restrictions: Programs are primarily Washington Street branch of the Department of for homeless, formerly homeless or low-income women Housing & Community Development DHCD at 617-989- with children. The Adult Education program is open to 6100. women over the age of 18. The job training programs and housing services are open to all individuals. Workforce Development Programs Shelter requires referral from DTA. Financial assistance Take advantage of Project Hope’s workforce training is only provided to families with children under the age programs and job placement support. Click on the list of 18. below to learn more about each program that Project Hope offers. Languages: Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean • Tracks to Employment (Three-week job training Creole program) Respond, Inc. • Administrative Jobs in Healthcare See in Category: Domestic Violence • DTA Works-Healthcare Administrative Support Roxbury Multi-Service Center Training Program 321 Blue Hill Avenue • Project Hope Family Child Care Boston, MA 02121
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Phone: 617-541-6859 monitor all contracted youth. They provide Fax: 617-445-2125 family support and stabilization services so that www.roxmulti.org/ children are not removed from their family or Who to Contact: Carole Montgomery, Executive are reunited in a safe and timely manner. They Director also identify programs for youth that need an Services: Roxbury Multi-Service Center, Inc. (RMSC) alternative placement such as intensive foster serves children, adolescents, and their families within care, group care, residential care or the communities surrounding their three locations. independent living. They’ve designed their behavioral health, education, Languages: RYI's staff is multi-cultural and multi-lingual and housing programs to respond to participants’ needs reflecting the culture and language of the youth and where resources are most effective. families they serve. Waiting time: Referrals are responded to within a 24 Somerville Homeless Coalition hour period See in Category: Housing Languages: English, Spanish, French, Cape Verdean, St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children Haitian Creole See in Category: Women Roxbury Youthworks, Inc. The Federation for Children with Special Needs 841 Parker Street See in Category: Disability Suites 104-106 Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120 The Home for Little Wanderers Phone: 617-427-8095 10 Guest Street [email protected]; Boston, MA 02135 www.roxburyyouthworks.org/index.html Phone: 617-267-3700 Services: Fax: 617-267-8142 www.thehome.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_ 1. The Community Service Network supports thehome youth committed to the Department of Youth Services (DYS) as they transition from secure Services: The Home for Little Wanderers provides a treatment facilities back to their home or an variety of services for every stage of child and family alternative placement. They work with youths development. until they “age out” of DYS or end their Primary service areas include: individual, group and voluntary services, assisting them to complete family therapy; psychological and neuro-psychological their education, gain employment, receive testing; medication management; child and family skills behavioral/mental health and other services. development; therapeutic mentoring; birth parent 2. Gaining Independence For Tomorrow (GIFT) counseling; life skills training; community connection provides prevention, intervention, support, and integration; behavioral stabilization; educational stabilization and therapeutic services to young preparation; and social, vocational and daily living girls who are current victims, former victims, or supports are at high risk of becoming victims of Learn more about their services: Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE). • Clinical & Family Support 3. Being United In Leading our Destiny (BUILD) • Residential Care applies the model used at GIFT, but exclusively • Special Education serves cisgender males, transgender and gender • Transitional Age Youth nonconforming youth who are victims of Service hours: Mon-Fri: 9am - 5pm Commercial Sexual Exploitation and/or sexual assault or are at high risk of becoming victims. The Salvation Army – Boston South End Corps Community Center 4. Through RYI’s Dimock Street Lead Agency in See in Category: Emergency Assistance Roxbury, they work with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to facilitate and 62 Families Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Child Support Enforcement See in Category: Administrative Issues
Union of Minority Neighborhoods
See in Category: Other Groups
United Way’s 211 Helpline See in Category: Hotlines
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Food Service hours: Tuesday: 2-7pm (226 High Street Brookline) ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) Wednesday: 3-6pm (15 St. Paul Street Brookline) See in Category: Education Thursday: 11-2pm (15 St. Paul Street Brookline) & 3- 7pm (55A Egmont Street Brookline) AIDS Action Committee See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Other Locations: (1) 226 High Street Brookline, Ma 02445 American Red Cross: Boston Food Pantry (2) 55A Egmont Street, Brookline 02446 1033 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02118 Requirements & Restrictions: Phone: 617-375-0735 • Brookline residents only (proof of address Fax: 617-236-1289 required) [email protected]; o Non-Brookline Residents who have www.redcross.org/local/massachusetts/food-nutrition children in Brookline schools and have Services: The Boston Food Pantry provides clients with letter showing participation in the a 5-day emergency supply of food once a month. school subsidy lunch program are eligible to shop at the pantry The Pantry also provides food stamp (SNAP) application • assistance. Letter of need/referral from any one of the following: Service hours: Wed. & Sat. 9am - 12pm o Mental Health Agency Arlington Street Church Friday Night Supper o Social worker See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations o Doctor/Health agency Interfaith agency Asian-American Civic Association o Tenant at a Brookline Housing Authority See in Category: Education o Building (if name is on their master list Berea Seventh Day Adventist no need for a letter) See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations o Brookline School letter showing participation in the school subsidy lunch Bethel Baptist Church program See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations • If no referral from those listed above, provide Boston Rescue Mission proof of participation in any of the following See in Category: Other Groups State and Federal Programs: Bridge Over Troubled Waters o Mass Health (Medicaid) – See in Category: Other Groups Commonwealth Care o SNAP (Formerly Food Stamp Program) Brighton Allston Congregational Church: Thrift Shop o Department of Transitional Assistance and Food Pantry (Child Services) See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations o EAEDC (Emergency Aid to Elders, Brookline Food Pantry Disabled and Children) 15 Saint Paul St o RAFT (Residence Assistance for Families St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Transition) Brookline, MA 02446 o Unemployment Benefits Phone: 617-800-5339 o SSI (Supplemental Security Income) [email protected]; o TAFDC (Transitional Aid to Families with brooklinefoodpantry.org/ Dependent Children) Veterans’ Assistance Services: The food pantry is open Tuesday-Thursday. o The Brookline Food Pantry follows the Brookline Public o TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Schools calendar for emergency closings. When the Families) schools are closed, the pantries are also closed. 64 Food Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
o WIC (Women, Infants & Children up to Services: Their Food Pantry provides individuals and age 5 at nutritional risk) families in need with fresh fruits and vegetables, canned • Clients can shop once every two weeks and dry goods, meats, and dairy products. Community • However, non-registered clients are allowed to members are welcome to come to the pantry two times shop once and need to bring in required per month. documentation on their next visit in order to Service hours: shop in the future. Pantry Hours If a client does not meet any of the above or if they Tuesday: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM have questions, please have them call Elizabeth Boen, Friday: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Director @ 617-800-5339. Requirements & Restrictions: Food pantry- Individuals Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee and families in need in the Cambridge and Greater See in Category: Emergency Assistance Boston area with no residency restrictions. On your first Cathedral Church of St. Paul visit, you will be required to fill out an intake form. See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Bring ID and a form of income verification. Acceptable forms of verification include pay stubs, Medicare/Mass Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston Health card, a DTA/EBT card, a referral, a benefit See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations statement, or any other document that proves your City Mission: Homelessness Prevention income status, or that your age is over 62. See in Category: Emergency Assistance Faith Lutheran Church: Faith Kitchen Community Servings See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations 179 Armory St. First Church in Cambridge Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Phone: 617-522-7777 Fax: 617-657-1915 First Parish Church: Tuesday Meals Program [email protected]; www.servings.org/ See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Services: Community Servings is a food and nutrition Food Not Bombs program to individuals and families living with critical Carl F. Barron Plaza and chronic illnesses. It also offers a job training 1 Central Square program that consists of a 12-week curriculum covering Cambridge, MA 02139 all factors of working in a professional kitchen, including [email protected]; food safety, nutrition, knife skills and quality food www.bostonfoodnotbombs.com/ preparation. Services: Food Not Bombs recovers food that would Requirements & Restrictions: Must be a citizen or be have been discarded and share it as a way of protesting legally registered. Proficiency in English. High school war and poverty. FNB serves free and healthy diploma/GED/HiSET not required. CORI friendly; not vegetarian or vegan meals at the Central Square T stop SORI friendly. from 1PM-3PM every Saturday. Waiting time: 6 12-week sessions annually COVID-19 Protocols can be found on website. Languages: English only Other Locations: East End House: Emergency Food Program Cooking Address 105 Spring Street 14 Harvard Ave, Boston, MA 02134 Cambridge, MA 02141 Cooking info: 9AM-12PM every Saturday Phone: 617-876-4444 Fax: 617-868-3616 Foodsource Hotline – Project Bread [email protected]; See in Category: Hotlines eastendhouse.org/programs-and-services/emergency- Haley House food-program See in Category: Housing 65 Food Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Harvard Square Churches Meal Program See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Harvest on Vine by St. Mary-St. Catherine of Siena Parish See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations
Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Loaves and Fishes, First Korean Church
See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House See in Category: Families
Massachusetts Ave. Baptist Church: Project MANNA See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) See in Category: Emergency Assistance
North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center (NSC) See in Category: Emergency Assistance
Paulist Center See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations
Pilgrim Church See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations
Rosie’s Place See in Category: Women St. Francis House See in Category: Emergency Assistance
St. James Helping Hands Food Pantry See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations The Salvation Army – Boston South End Corps
Community Center See in Category: Emergency Assistance
Weekend Emergency Food Pantry – Church of the Covenant See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations
Women’s Lunch Place See in Category: Women
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Fuel Assistance
ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) See in Category: Education
Asian-American Civic Association
See in Category: Education
City of Cambridge Fuel Assistance Program/DHSP 51 Inman Street Cambridge, MA 02149 Phone: 617-349-6252 [email protected]; www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/fuela ssistance Services: Serving both the cities of Cambridge and Somerville, the Fuel Assistance Program assists low- income households with winter heating costs incurred between November 1 and April 30. Eligibility for the program is determined by gross household income that falls within the Federal Poverty guidelines. The Fuel Assistance Program notifies and pays heating vendors directly for program participants that pay out of pocket for their heating costs. Program participants whose heat is included in their rent could be eligible to receive a payment, made directly to them, for the “heat” portion of their rent.
Service hours: Mon-Thurs: 8:30am - 5:00pm, Fri: 8:30am - 12:00pm Requirements & Restrictions: Must meet certain household income guidelines to be eligible. Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) See in Category: Housing
Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) See in Category: Emergency Assistance North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center (NSC) See in Category: Emergency Assistance
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Hotlines See in Category: Domestic Violence Eastern Regional Legal Intake (ERLI) Alcoholics Anonymous See in Category: Legal See in Category: Substance Use Foodsource Hotline – Project Bread Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence 145 Border Street P.O. Box 120108 East Boston, MA 02128 Boston, MA 02112 Phone (Hotline): 1-800-645-8333 Phone: 617-338-2355 TTY: 1-800-377-1292 Fax: 617-338-2354 [email protected]; www.projectbread.org/get- [email protected]; www.atask.org/site/ help/foodsource-hotline.html The Asian Task Force Against Domestic Services: Services: Project Bread toll-free FoodSource Hotline is Violence primarily serves Asian families and individuals the only comprehensive statewide information and in Massachusetts who suffer or are at risk of suffering referral service in Massachusetts for people facing from domestic violence. The hotline connects callers hunger. with emotional support in their preferred language, and can also point callers to referral services. Project Bread’s toll-free FoodSource Hotline provides: • Information on and referrals to emergency food • Linguistically and culturally appropriate case pantries and meal programs management • Information about SNAP/food stamps including • Legal advocacy screening for eligible and general questions • Housing assistance from current recipients • Medical and healthcare advocacy • Over the phone SNAP application assistance • Income stabilization and follow-up • Emergency shelter • Information about free and reduced-price • Life skills classes school and summer meal programs for children • Information about domestic and intimate • Information on the Special Supplemental partner violence Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and • Safety planning Children (WIC) • Emotional support Service hours: M - F: 8am - 7pm; Sat: 10am - 2pm • Crisis screening & triage • Information about community resources Requirements & Restrictions: Service available by • Referral to an ATASK advocate telephone only. • ESOL classes Available to all Massachusetts residents. • 24-hour multilingual helpline Having a criminal record and/or being homeless does Service hours: Multilingual Helpline available 24/7 NOT disqualify anyone from being eligible for Food ATASK advocated available M-F, 9-5pm, if follow up is Stamps. needed. Languages: The Hotline has links to 180 languages – Other Locations: Lowell, MA specify desired language when calling. Languages: Bangla, Bhutanese, Cantonese, Chiu Chau Gamblers Anonymous (Teochew), English, Gujatari, Hindi, Khmer (Cambodian), See in Category: Support Groups Korean, Mandarin, Manipuri, Nepali, Punjabi, Massachusetts Child Abuse Emergency Line Shanghainese, Tagalog (Filipino), Taishanese, Thai, Phone: 1-800-792-5200 Taiwanese, Urdu, Vietnamese jbcc.harvard.edu/child-risk-hotline Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) Services: The Massachusetts Child Abuse Emergency See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Line operated by Judge Baker Children’s Center functions as the after-hours service for the MA Casa Myrna Department of Children and Families (DCF). DCF is the state agency charged with the responsibility of 68 Hotlines Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org protecting children from child abuse and neglect. A 50+ Languages: Bilingual advocates are on hand to speak member staff is trained to assess the urgency of each with callers, and the Language Line offers translations in call, elicit critical information, and provide a 170+ different languages. sympathetic ear. In situations where children are at National Sexual Assault Hotline imminent risk, an emergency response is initiated, with Phone: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) DCF field staff launching the investigations. Services are rainn.org/ provided by phone only. The Emergency Line is NOT able to provide services on its website or by email. Services: This hotline connects callers to the nearest available services for survivors of sexual assault. Instant Service hours: message is possible by clicking the “chat” button on the Weekdays: Monday –Thursday 5:00 pm – 9:00 am (of website. the next morning) The National Sexual Assault Hotline is a safe, Weekends: Friday 5:00 pm – Monday 9:00 am confidential service. When you call the hotline, only the Holidays: Friday 5:00 pm – Tuesday 9:00 am for Monday first six numbers of the phone number are used to holidays; 5:00 pm of the day preceding a weekday route the call, and your complete phone number is holiday – 9:00 am of the weekday after the holiday never stored in their system. Most states do have laws Massachusetts Substance Use Helpline that require local staff to contact authorities in certain Helpline: 1-800-327-5050 situations, like if there is a child or vulnerable adult who helplinema.org/ is in danger. Services: The Helpline is the only statewide, public Service hours: Hotline and online chat available 24/7 resource for finding substance use treatment, recovery, Languages: English, Spanish and problem gambling services. Helpline services are free and confidential. Their caring, trained Specialists National Suicide Prevention Lifeline will help you understand the treatment system and English: 800-273-TALK (8255) your options. Español: 1-888-628-9454 Veterans : 800-273-TALK (8255), Press 1 Service hours: 24/7 TTY: 800-799-4889 Languages: Spanish, Interpreters for other languages suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ National Domestic Violence Hotline Services: The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a 24- Phone (Toll-Free): 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline TTY: 1-800-787-3224 available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional www.thehotline.org/ distress. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number Services: 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a routes callers to the nearest accredited crisis center in year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides the caller’s area. National suicide Prevention Lifeline calls essential tools and support to help survivors of are answered by staff at over 160 crisis centers across the domestic violence so they can live their lives free of United States who provide callers with crisis counseling abuse (available via phone and live chat on website) and mental health referrals. Instant messaging services available by clicking “chat” on website. Contacts to The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and Service hours: 24/7 compassionate support, crisis intervention information, Languages: English, Spanish (Note: network centers also education, and referral services in over 200 languages. have access to interpreting services for other languages) Advocates attend extensive training sessions to prepare New England Region of Narcotics Anonymous for crisis intervention support, safety planning, See in Category: Substance Use education, advocacy, and referrals for survivors; they also undergo training to support friends, family Parents Helping Parents/Parental Stress Line members, and others concerned about loved ones See in Category: Support Groups experiencing situations of abuse. Rape Crisis Hotline – Pathways for Change Service hours: Hotline and chat are 24/7. 588 Main Street
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Worcester, MA 01608 The Support Line is not a substitute for professional Office (M-F 9am- 5pm) : 508-852-7600 counseling, treatment or consultation with an attorney. 24/7 Hotline: 1-800-870-5905 Any actions or lack of actions by the recipient after TTY (M-F 9am-5pm): 888-887-7130 contacting the Support Line is the sole responsibility of www.pathwaysforchange.help/pfc the recipient. Neither RSOL, SOSEN nor Women Against Services: If you or someone you know has been sexually Registry will be held responsible or liable in any regard. assaulted, call the Rape Crisis Hotline. A counselor is The Support Line DOES NOT support nor can they available to offer support and information. A TTY is provide service to any person who is engaging in illegal available for deaf and hard of hearing individuals activities and ask those calls be directed to: Childhelp weekdays from 9am-5pm at 888-887-7130. MassRelay National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800- (TTY service) also available by calling 711 or Video Relay 422-4453). Operators are available by calling 866-327-8877. Service hours: 10am-10pm Pathways for Change provides counseling services for RESPOND, Inc. those that are victims of a sexual assault. See in Category: Domestic Violence Service hours: Hotline is available 24/7. TTY is available SafeLink 9am-5pm. SafeLink 24/7 Hotline: 1-877-785-2020 Other Locations: [email protected]; www.casamyrna.org/get- Fitchburg Office support/safelink/ 275 Nichols Road Services: SafeLink is the Massachusetts statewide Fitchburg, MA 01420 domestic violence hotline and is operated by Casa Languages: Counseling services are provided by staff Myrna Vazquez, Inc. in Boston. SafeLink is answered by onsite in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language. trained advocates 24/7. Other languages can be accommodated in counseling • Safety Planning: Victims of domestic violence sessions with advance notice through the use of learn how they and their families can stay safe interpreters. A collaboration with the AT&T Language • Supportive Listening: They provide a safe space Line provides immediate access to interpreters for the in which to talk about what’s happening in your hotline in more than 150 languages. relationship • Direct connection to domestic violence shelter REACH Beyond Domestic Violence programs across Massachusetts See in Category: Domestic Violence • Referrals to local domestic violence and Registrants and Families Support Line community services Phone (WAR): 800-311-3764 • Support and resources for anyone who is Phone (ACSOL): 818-305-5984 concerned about a victim of domestic violence Phone (NARSOL): 888-997-7765 • Crisis Intervention [email protected]; See Casa Myrna entry for more services. www.womenagainstregistry.org/page-1730789 Languages: English, Spanish, and other languages Services: This support hotline or helpline is here to translated through interpreter services. provide hope and encouragement to registrants and Samaritans family members, women, mothers, grandmothers, 41 West Street sisters, daughters, children, friends, and others that are 4th Floor suffering collateral damage because a family member, Boston, MA 02111 friend, or loved one is on the sex offender registry. The Hotline: 877-870-4673 support hot line is open to everyone that is suffering Office Phone: 617-536-2460 from the collateral damage of the sex offender registry. [email protected]; samaritanshope.org/ This is a service provided by Women Against Registry in collaboration with RSOL, and SOSEN and paid for by Services: Samaritans’ mission is to reduce the incidence donations and membership fees paid to this web site. of suicide by alleviating despair, isolation, distress, and suicidal feelings among individuals in the community, 24 70 Hotlines Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org hours a day; to educate the public about suicide Requirements & Restrictions: All direct services are prevention; to help those who have lost a loved one to done by telephone and email. suicide; and to reduce the stigma associated with suicide. Languages: English, some Spanish literature available Samaritans provides life-saving suicide prevention online. services throughout Greater Boston, MetroWest, and The Cambridge Women’s Center across Massachusetts. Their services are free, See in Category: Women confidential, and nonjudgmental. 24/7 Crisis Services – Each day, people who struggle with The Network – La Red loneliness, depression, or suicidal feelings turn to See in Category: LGBTQ+ Samaritans’ 24/7 Helpline for non-judgmental support. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, IRIS On the other side of a phone call or text message, they See in Category: Veterans find a caring listener ready to provide compassion. You can call or text their Helpline 24/7 at (877) 870-4673. United Way’s 211 Helpline Phone: 211 Grief Support Services – If you have lost a loved one to Phone (Toll-free): 1-877-211-6277 suicide, you can find support through events, meetings, TTY: 508-370-4890 and peer networks. Website: mass211.org/ Community Education & Outreach – Learn how to help Services: Free, 24/7 confidential hotline for finding someone in crisis by hosting a suicide prevention government benefits and services, reentry help, non- workshop at your school, workplace, or organization. profit organizations, support groups, job training Learn more about Samaritans’ programs, including the programs, volunteer opportunities, legal matters, latest information about their remote services during housing, childcare, health utilities, donation programs, COVID-19, at www.samaritanshope.org. and other local resources. Also available via “chat” on Service hours: 24/7 website. Social Security: Benefits After Incarceration Service hours: Hotline and chat available 24/7. See in Category: Administrative Issues Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages translated through interpreter services. Stop It Now! Helpline 351 Pleasant Street Suite B-319 Northampton, MA 01060 Helpline: 1-888-773-8368 [email protected]; www.stopitnow.org/ Services: The Resource Guide on this website lists a number of relevant organizations including resources for referrals for treatment providers. Stop It Now! also maintains a Helpline for adults who are at risk for sexually abusing a child, for friends and family members of sexual abusers and/or victims, and for parents of children with sexual behavior problems. The toll-free
Helpline is confidential and no caller ID is used. The Helpline also offers an email service to answer individuals’ questions and provide guidance and resources. Chat option available on website. Service hours: Phone and Chat is available M-F 12pm - 6pm ET. Email is usually responded in 72 hours or less.
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Housing Foundation House 155 Mill St ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) Springfield, MA 01108 See in Category: Education Phone: (413) 886-0110 ext. 3242 Fax: (413) 886-0122 AIDS Action Committee [email protected]; www.crj.org/divisions/social-justice- See in Category: Physical and Mental Health services/programs/ Asian-American Civic Association Services: Foundation House is a 28-bed Community- See in Category: Education based Residential Reentry Program for male and female Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc. returning citizens. Residents receive evidence-based See in Category: Disability case management services and in-house clinical services that emphasize successful reentry. Brooke House 107 Park Dr Requirements & Restrictions: Men and women are Boston, MA 02115 referred by county sheriff’s departments, the Phone: (617) 867-0300 Massachusetts Department of Correction, the Fax: (617) 867-0344 Massachusetts Parole Board, or the Massachusetts [email protected]; www.crj.org/divisions/social-justice- Probation Service. These referrers must prepare a services/programs/ referral packet which will be reviewed based on availability and allocation. Services: Brooke House is a 65-bed Community based Residential Reentry Program for male returning citizens. Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) Residents receive evidence-based case management See in Category: Legal services and in-house clinical services that emphasize Haley House successful reentry. 23 Dartmouth Street Requirements & Restrictions: Men referred by the Boston, MA 02116 county sheriffs’ departments, the Massachusetts Phone: 617-236-8132 Department of Correction, the Massachusetts Parole [email protected]; haleyhouse.org/ Board, or the Massachusetts Probation service. Services: Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Meal services: (All located at 23 Dartmouth Street) See in Category: Emergency Assistance Welcomes all genders/all ages to all meals during Cambridge Multi-Service Center COVID-19 See in Category: Other Groups • Coffee: 6:15- 8:00am (Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Casa Esperanza, Inc. Fri & Sun) See in Category: Substance Use • Breakfast: 8:00 – 9:30am (Mon, Tues, Wed, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston Thurs, Fri, & Sun) See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations • Lunch: 11:00 – 12:30pm (Two days only- Fri & Sun) City Mission: Homelessness Prevention See in Category: Emergency Assistance • Clothing: 9:30 – 11:00am (Tuesday) • Groceries: 10:00 – 11:00am (Thursday) Elizabeth Stone House See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Housing: Haley House owns and/or manages 109 affordable housing units throughout Boston’s South FamilyAid Boston End. The majority are supported by project-based See in Category: Families Section 8 subsidies, which enable people with low Father Bill’s Place income to live securely in their own homes, without See in Category: Shelters fear of being displaced.
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24 single-room-occupancy (SRO) units are reserved for • Anna Bissonnette House individuals who are living in shelters or transitional o Forty units of permanent supportive programs and are ready to move into permanent housing in the heart of the South End housing. Individuals must be on or eligible for the • Elsie Frank House Boston Housing Authority (BHA) waitlist and meet o Congregate housing for nine elderly certain other requirements. An additional two women in peaceful Jamaica Plain unsubsidized units are reserved for Resident Managers. • Hearth at Burroughs Street To apply for the subsidized units, individuals should call o Congregate housing for fourteen 617-236-8132 and ask to speak with the Housing formerly homeless seniors near Director to schedule an appointment. beautiful Jamaica Pond Five SRO units are reserved for individuals who manage • Hearth at Olmsted Green their direct service programs and accept the challenge o Fifty-units of permanent supportive to participate in the Haley House Live-In program. housing near Franklin Park in Nine additional family units are not supported by formal Dorchester subsidies. Rents are established on a sliding scale for • Ruggles Assisted Living the purpose of creating a small community of o 100% affordable assisted living with individuals who represent a cross-section of economies. forty-three studio apartments near Dudley Square 69 subsidized family units, collectively known as • Interfaith Apartments, are owned jointly with Madison Ruth Cowin House Park Development Corporation and are managed by o Nine studio apartments in Brookline Maloney Properties. To apply for these units, please call In 2021, Hearth at Four Corners will open, adding 54 the management company at 617-927-0002 and ask to additional units. speak with the Property Manager. Housing Applications can be found here: Service hours: See above for schedule. http://www.hearth-home.org/housing-application. Requirements & Restrictions: Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm Men only for breakfast meals. Other Locations: Representation at all major shelter Elder meals for men and women age 55 and older only. locations. Food Pantry requires registration. Call or visit website Requirements & Restrictions: Low income seniors age 55 and up for upcoming registration dates. Those who wish to register need to present a valid photo ID with a Waiting time: 1 to 3 weeks permanent address and are eligible to come every other Languages: English, Spanish week. They accept registrations on a rolling basis as HomeStart, Inc. their supply permits, but do not take drop-ins. 105 Chauncy Street Heading Home Suite 502 See in Category: Shelters Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617-542-0338 Hearth Fax: 617-542-1454 1640 Washington Street Eviction Prevention Hotline: 617-542-1454 Boston, MA 02118 [email protected]; www.homestart.org/ Intake/Resident Placement: 617-369-1578 Services: HomeStart provides affordable housing search [email protected]; www.hearth-home.org/ services and homelessness prevention services to Who to Contact: Intake/Resident Placement individuals and families. HomeStart also offers help in Services: Hearth is a non-profit organization dedicated money management and training/technical assistance. to the elimination of homelessness among the elderly. Housing Search: Their advocates work with clients from Currently, Hearth, Inc. operates 174 units of permanent more than 50 shelters and programs to obtain supportive housing located in six different buildings apartments and subsidized housing. They provide throughout the Greater Boston area. support and compassion to help their clients navigate 73 Housing Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org the difficult and complicated process of transitioning HomeStart’s Housing Search and Stabilization services from a shelter to permanent housing. Their Housing generally use a closed referral process, please call to Search services include several targeted initiatives for inquire about requirements. To inquire about receiving homeless veterans and a Rapid Re-Housing Program assistance from the Homelessness Prevention program, that administers rental start-up assistance and helps call (617) 542-0338 ext. 267 to speak with the people rapidly move into market rate housing. Homelessness Prevention Hotline Coordinator. Stabilization: After moving into permanent housing, Languages: English, Spanish individuals and families face the greatest challenges to Hope House maintaining their housing. They help each participant See in Category: Substance Use reintegrate into the community; this may include money management programs, life skills training, and House of Hope, Inc. – Lowell more. As of 2013 96% of their stabilization clients are 812 Merrimack Street still in housing one year later. Lowell, MA 01854 Homelessness Prevention: Their Prevention Program Phone: +1-978-458-2870 utilizes a combination of housing and stabilization [email protected]; houseofhopelowell.org/ knowledge, mediation techniques, legal advocacy, and Services: House of Hope is dedicated to homeless flexible monetary funds to help high-risk households families in Massachusetts, helping them gain stable retain their housing and avoid going to shelters. housing. Services include: Housing First: The Housing First Program helps disabled • Emergency Shelter for parents and their individuals move directly from the streets and into children permanent housing. HomeStart provides these • Workforce Development with on the job individuals with wraparound support services as they training obtain the life skills, physical and psychological • Stabilization Services for families rehoused in attention they need to maintain housing. the community Homeless Set Aside: In partnership with the City of • Affordable Housing with Supportive Services Boston’s 15% homeless set-aside program, HomeStart Service hours: Mon-Fri: 9AM - 5PM operates a vacancy clearinghouse that matches people who are homeless with government-funded housing HousingWorks units in Boston. HomeStart conducts outreach to P.O. Box 231104 property management companies, streamlines the Boston, MA 02123-1104 tenant application process, matches tenants to units, [email protected]; and provides tenants with follow-up support services. www.infoweb.org/HousingSeekers.html Veteran Housing: In partnerships with the New England Services: HousingWorks is a resource for Housing Center for Homeless Veterans, U.S. Department of Advocates and Landlords to search and apply to all Veterans Affairs, and the Boston Housing Authority, subsidized and affordable housing in New England. HomeStart’s advocates assist homeless military HousingWorks does not work with individuals or veterans and veteran families throughout the Greater families; instead, they work with their case managers Boston area in the housing search process and then and advocates. HousingWorks lists all of the ex-offender provide them with upfront financial costs upon move- housing they can locate. in. People seeking low-income housing should watch the Service hours: Mon-Fri 9-12pm, 1-4:45pm (closed 12-1) video (from the website link above). The video is Since HomeStart is remote currently, it'd be better for recommended because it teaches you what you need to clients to call or email instead. know *before* you search – and also helps you do the search at the same time. By the time you have finished Requirements & Restrictions: To enter 105 Chauncy the video, you will have also finished your housing Street, you must present a valid form of ID at the front search. desk. Requirements & Restrictions: Online resources only; not available by phone or email. 74 Housing Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Just-A-Start Corporation have the right to appeal through the local fuel See in Category: Employment assistance agency. Justice Resource Institute (JRI) The Division of Housing Stabilization (DHS) See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Provides emergency shelter and emergency assistance to those who are homeless or at risk of becoming Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) homeless through several different programs See in Category: Substance Use Eligible Applicants: Eligibility requirements vary by Massachusetts Department of Housing and program. Visit the DHS website for more information or Community Development (DHCD) call DHS at 617-573-1370 or toll free at 877-418-3308 100 Cambridge St., Suite 300 (TTY 617-573-1140). Boston, MA 02114 For information on how to apply for housing assistance Phone: 617-573-1100 please visit: Toll-Free: 877-418-3308 TTY: 617-573-1140 • https://www.mass.gov/guides/a-guide-to- Fax: 617-573-1120 obtaining-housing-assistance www.mass.gov/orgs/housing-and-community- • https://www.mass.gov/guides/how-to-apply- development for-public-housing • Services: The DHCD website contains a number of https://www.mass.gov/service-details/section- resources on general Housing and Community 8-housing-choice-voucher-program-hcvp Development issues. Visit this link for an extensive list • https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-for-a- of DHCD programs. See descriptions of Fuel Assistance rental-voucher and Emergency Assistance programs below. Service hours: Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) Office hours vary depending on location. DCHD General Office Hours: M - F 8:45am - 5pm Known commonly as Fuel Assistance, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides Other Locations: Fuel Assistance Offices eligible households with help in paying a portion of Boston: Action for Boston Community Development, winter heating bills. Inc. (ABCD) Call your local agency for application and information 178 Tremont Street, Boston 02111 on available programs. A listing of local agencies is (617) 357-6012 available on the LIHEAP webpage. You can also call Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop: statewide the toll-free HEATLINE at 1-800-632-8175 to Community Action Program Intercity, Inc. (CAPIC) get a number for your area. Or call DHCD’s Division of Community Services at 617-573-1400. 100 Everett Street, Unit 14; Chelsea 02150 (617) 884-6130 Eligible Applicants: Homeowners and renters including households whose cost of heat is included in the rent Cambridge & Somerville can apply at the agency in their area. Eligibility is based City of Cambridge, Department of Human Services on household size and the gross annual income of every 51 Inman St. Cambridge, 02139 household member, 18 years of age or older. Household (617) 349-6200 income cannot exceed 60% of estimated State Median Quincy: Quincy Community Action Income. 1509 Hancock Street, 3rd Fl. Quincy, 02169 How to Apply: First-time applicants must apply in 617-479-8181, 1-800-637-2011 – Toll Free person at the fuel assistance agency in their area. Requirements & Restrictions: Income restrictions Households must apply each year; applications are apply. mailed to households after the first year. Households can apply from November 1st to April 30th of the Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department program year. Applicants who are denied assistance See in Category: Other Groups
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McGrath House See in Category: Women 699 Massachusetts Ave Project Hope Boston, MA 02118 See in Category: Families Phone: (857) 317-6191 Fax: (857) 350-4401 Project Place [email protected]; www.crj.org/divisions/social-justice- See in Category: Employment services/programs/ Somerville Homeless Coalition Services: McGrath House is a 33-bed Community-based 1 Davis Square Residential Reentry Program for female returning Somerville, MA 02144 citizens. Residents receive gender-specific evidence- Phone: 617-623-6111 based case management and in-house clinical services TTY: 617-776-0750 that emphasize successful reentry. Fax: 617-776-7165 Requirements & Restrictions: Women referred by www.somervillehomelesscoalition.org/ county sheriff’s departments, the Massachusetts Services: The mission of the Somerville Homeless Department of Correction, the Massachusetts Parole Coalition is to provide homeless and nearly homeless Board, or the Massachusetts Probation Service. These individuals and families with individualized supportive referrers must prepare a referral packet which will be services and tailored housing solutions with the goal of reviewed based on availability and allocation. obtaining and maintaining affordable housing. New England Center and Home for Veterans Programs See in Category: Veterans • Adult and Family Shelters Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation o For shelter information, please call the 56 Warren St shelter at 617-623-2546 Suite 200 • Supported Housing Roxbury, MA 02119 o For more information about their Phone: (617) 427-3599 supported housing, please complete an Fax: (617) 989-1216 intake referral or call the main office Home Center fax: (617) 989-2700 • Food Assistance [email protected]; www.nuestracdc.org/ o For more information, please complete an intake referral or contact them at Services: Nuestra Comunidad is devoted to building the 617-776-7687 or wealth and enhancing the physical, economic, and [email protected] social well-being of Roxbury and other underserved • populations in greater Boston through a community- Homelessness Prevention driven process that promotes self-sufficiency and o For Homelessness Prevention neighborhood revitalization. information, please complete an intake referral or call the main office Classes: Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm • First-time homebuyer classes Languages: English, Spanish • Credit ready classes Programs: St. Francis House • Foreclosure prevention See in Category: Food • Your financial future St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children • Resident Services See in Category: Women • Community engagement • Business and entrepreneurship The Cambridge Women’s Center • Asset management See in Category: Women • Housing resource services The Salvation Army – Boston South End Corps On the Rise, Inc. Community Center 76 Housing Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
See in Category: Emergency Assistance
United Way’s 211 Helpline
See in Category: Hotlines
Victory Programs Inc. 965 Massachusetts Ave Boston, MA 02118 Phone: 617-541-0222 Fax: 617-541-0094 www.vpi.org/ Services: Victory Programs opens doors to recovery, hope and community for individuals and families facing homelessness, addiction or other chronic illnesses like HIV/AIDS. Services include short and long-term residential treatment programs for individuals and families, affordable housing opportunities for eligible individuals, HIV/AIDS case management and housing opportunities. Multiple sites located throughout Boston.
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Legal Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services 60 Gore Street AIDS Action Committee Suite 203 See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Cambridge, MA 02141 Phone (CASLS): 617-603-2700 American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Phone (ERLI): 617-603-1700 (ACLUM) Fax (CASLS): 617-494-8222 211 Congress Street Fax (ERLI): 617-371-1188 3rd Floor www.gbls.org/our-work/cambridge-somerville-legal- Boston, MA 02110 services Phone: 617-482-3170 ext. 301 Phone (Western MA): 413-5869115 Services: While criminal cases are not accepted, free Fax: 617-451-0009 legal advice and representation is offered in the [email protected]; aclum.org/ following general areas: Who to Contact: Legal Resource Team X301 • Housing- eviction defense, denial of public housing or Section 8; termination of Section 8 Services: The ACLU of Massachusetts works to preserve • and protect the civil liberties and civil rights guaranteed Benefits- denial or termination of federal by the U.S. Constitution, especially the principles disability benefits; denial or termination of state contained in the Bill of Rights. benefits including EAEDC, SNAP (food stamps), TAFDC, MassHealth, EA shelter If you believe your civil liberties have been violated, • Elder issues- housing, nursing home issues, contact the ACLU by phone, fax, or letter. The ACLU Social Security, SSI, elder abuse considers complaints involving issues such as freedom Access to CSLS is through ERLI (Eastern Region Legal of speech and religion; discrimination based on race, Intake). See ERLI listing. If ERLI determines that a gender, sexual orientation or disability; police referral should be made to CSLS, the assigned attorney misconduct; censorship in schools or libraries; fairness will contact the client. in application of school discipline; privacy; access to government documents; and other issues of fair Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm. No walk-ins are treatment by the government. accepted. The ACLU is a law reform, not a legal aid organization. Requirements & Restrictions: Residency in Cambridge, Therefore, they can accept very few cases. They will do Somerville, Arlington, Belmont, Woburn, or Winchester. their best to provide information or a referral to a more Residency in Cambridge and Somerville for elders. appropriate organization if they cannot help you Income limitations may apply. themselves. Waiting time: Varies by complexity of complaint and For prisoner-specific information, visit: staff availability www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights Languages: CASLS has some staff that speak Spanish; Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm language line access and interpreters are available for Note: Due to the Coronavirus, the ACLU of other languages. Massachusetts is working remotely. Given the office Cambridge Multi-Service Center closure and the large number of requests for assistance See in Category: Other Groups they receive, they may not be able to respond promptly. Casa Myrna See in Category: Domestic Violence Requirements & Restrictions: Service is available by telephone. Requests can also be made by mail or fax, CORI & Re-entry Project: Greater Boston Legal Services 617-451-0009. See in Category: CORI
Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc. See in Category: Disability CPCS-Alternative Commitment & Registration Support Unit
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See in Category: Sex Offenders . have been denied public housing or a section 8 voucher De Novo: Center for Justice and Healing or preference 47 Thorndike Street Suite SB-LL-1 . have been locked out of their Cambridge, MA 02141 home by their landlord Phone: 617-661-1010 • Disability benefits Fax: 617-661-1011 o Must be in the area they cover – www.denovo.org Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Who to Contact: Intake staff Everett, Chelsea, Arlington, Belmont, Services: De Novo: Center for Justice and Healing Brookline, Watertown, Boston provides free civil legal assistance to low-income clients (includes: Dorchester, Roxbury, W. on: Roxbury, Mattapan, Allston, Brighton, E. • Family law Boston, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Hyde Park, Charlestown) o Must be in the area they cover – Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, o What type of case? Denied, Everett, Chelsea, Arlington, Belmont, overpayment, reduction, termination Brookline, Watertown, Boston • Immigration and refugee rights (including (includes: Dorchester, Roxbury, W. psychological assessments of immigrant trauma Roxbury, Mattapan, Allston, Brighton, E. victims who seek legal status in the U.S) Boston, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Hyde o 6 weeks minimum before a court date if Park, Charlestown) there is one Note: Only Cambridge residents can be o o They are only taking cases from people helped if there is no presence of who have not had an individual hearing domestic violence yet o They are also not offering full De Novo also offers a Counseling Program to low- representation at the moment and are income people who have difficulty gaining access to not able to process emergency affordable mental health services. The Center serves restraining orders either individuals and couples who seek help for crises, stress, o What type of case? Divorce, child and other problems that affect their ability to function. support, custody, visitation, restraining Counseling focuses on improved coping. Clients work on orders overcoming the effects of violence, torture, sexual • Housing and Homelessness Prevention abuse, incest, social isolation, depression, anxiety, or substance abuse. o Intake Criteria: Cambridge and Somerville Residents only, who: Approximately 40% of the work at De Novo is done by volunteers. The telephone cannot always be covered by . have received a notice to staff. Leave a message and telephone number on the quit/notice of answering machine. Intake staff or staff psychologist termination/notice of possible will call back. lease violation/cease and desist letter from their landlord Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm . have been served court papers Requirements & Restrictions: There are income by their landlord/have an active restrictions and, in certain instances, some residency eviction or housing court case restrictions. Please call to see if you qualify. . have received notice that their Languages: English, Spanish, French, Farsi section 8 will be or has been Department of Mental Health and Forensic Services terminated See in Category: Physical and Mental Health
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Disability Law Center Hopkinton, Hudson, Hull, Lexington, Lincoln, Malden, See in Category: Disability Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medford, Medway, Melrose, Millis, Milton, Natick, Needham, Newton, Eastern Regional Legal Intake (ERLI) Norfolk, Norwell, Norwood, Plainville, Quincy, 7 Winthrop Square (Mail) Randolph, Revere, Scituate, Sharon, Sherborn, 2nd Floor Somerville, Stoneham, Stow, Sudbury, Wakefield, Boston, MA 02110 Walpole, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland, Wellesley, Phone: 617-603-1700 Weston, Westwood, Weymouth, Winchester, Winthrop, vlpnet.org/get-help/ Woburn, Wrentham. Services: ERLI is a project of the Volunteer Lawyers Languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Mandarin, Project and provides a free legal intake line for low- Portuguese income individuals seeking legal intake, information, advice and referrals. GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) ERLI handles intake for Greater Boston Legal Services, See in Category: LGBTQ+ the Volunteer Lawyers Project, and limited intake for Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) Metro West Legal Services. 197 Friend Street ERLI’s service area includes the service areas of the Boston, MA 02114 Volunteer Lawyers Project, Metro West Legal Services, Phone: 617-371-1234 and Greater Boston Legal Services. TDD: 617-371-1228 Callers must provide essential information about Toll-free: 800-323-3205 themselves such as contact information (name, date of Fax: 617-371-1222 birth, address), household size and income, amount of www.gbls.org/ financial assets, and immigration status in order to be Who to Contact: Intake Worker screened for legal services. Callers who are not eligible Services: Due to COVID-19, GBLS’ offices in Boston and for direct representation with an Eastern Region legal Cambridge are closed to the public and their staff is services program are provided legal information and/or working remotely assisting new and existing clients. If referrals. you are seeking services for the first time, please ERLI screens and refers potential clients to Greater contact the Eastern Region Legal Intake (ERLI) at 617- Boston Legal Services. 603-1700 or call GBLS at 617-371-1234. Intake hours for Service hours: Mon, Wed & Fri: 9am-12pm, Tues & problems that are not emergencies are Monday, Thurs: 12:30pm-3:30pm Wednesday, and Friday 9:00am-12:30pm or Tuesday, Thursday 12:30-3:30pm. ERLI also offers online intake Requirements & Restrictions: To qualify for VLP which can be found here: https://vlpnet.org/get-help/. services, clients must: For CORI record sealing help, see below. • Live in their service area. Emergencies are directed to an advocate all day. If there • Have incomes under 125% or 200% of the is a very high volume of calls, you may be on hold for a federal poverty guidelines period of time, but someone will eventually answer the • Have civil legal issues that meet VLP’s priorities. call. • Be a US Citizen or Legal Permanent Resident (green card holder) or have another status For help with criminal and juvenile record sealing, acceptable under the LSC rules expungement & CORI problems: Email [email protected] or leave a message with your name, address and phone VLP refers people they can’t assist to organizations that number at 617-603-1797 (please call between 9:00am may be able to help. and 5:00pm Monday to Friday) VLP Service Area: Acton, Arlington, Ashland, Bedford, GBLS does not handle criminal cases. It provides free Bellingham, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, legal representation and legal advice to low-income Cambridge, Canton, Carlisle, Chelsea, Cohasset, individuals and families in civil cases. GBLS also engages Concord, Dedham. Dover, Everett, Foxborough, in systemic litigation, class actions, and legislative Framingham, Franklin, Hingham, Holbrook, Holliston, advocacy on behalf of its clients. 80 Legal Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Major areas related to CORI and low-income people and access to healthcare; veterans’ benefits, Food trying to transition to the workforce include: Stamps, SSI, federal and state disability benefits. CORI & Re-entry Project: GBLS is a statewide leader on Family law/domestic violence: Provides representation legal issues related to CORI and the only legal services in divorce, restraining order and family law court program focused on legal representation of clients in matters for victims of domestic violence and sexual court on CORI issues and legal advice on criminal record assault to address safety issues and family and sealing, expungement, appeals of denials of CORI economic stability. sealing petitions, juvenile record sealing problems, Immigration Unit: Researches asylum claims for people professional licensing problems, CORI barriers and fleeing political, gender-based, and/or LGBT discrimination related to jobs and other opportunities, persecution, obtaining legal immigrant status for including EEOC or other CORI law violations; and CORI battered women and minor children. systemic initiatives related to implementation of CORI Welfare Unit: Includes obtaining and retaining TAFDC laws or new legislation. The Project provides and EAEDC cash benefits, SNAP/Food Stamp benefits, community legal education focused primarily on childcare and education/training benefits, and issues Dorchester and Roxbury. In addition to help with CORI, related to any of these benefits. GBLS has units that help low income people with other kinds of legal issues. GBLS is considering different ways to help people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please check the website for Employment Unit: GBLS represents clients in updates: GBLS Services during the Coronavirus. unemployment insurance claims (including extended unemployment benefits to participate in vocational GBLS also represents community groups and provides training) and wage and hour violations against community legal education and legislative advocacy for employers that exceed $1,000. clients. Health & Disability Issues: GBLS helps with termination Service hours: Monday - Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm of benefits related to a criminal warrant; access to People who have not yet done intake are asked to call government disability benefits. during the following times if it is not an emergency. Housing Unit: GBLS provides eviction help for tenants, Intake hours for non-emergency problems are Monday, home foreclosure prevention, preservation of affordable Wednesday, and Friday 9:00am-12:30pm or Tuesday, housing, access to and preservation of shelter for the Thursday 12:30-3:30pm. homeless, and representation of people with children Other Locations: living in a shelter who are denied priority status or who Cambridge/Somerville Office are denied eligibility because of CORI or tenant 60 Gore St., Suite 203, Cambridge, MA 02141, 617-603- suitability; housing transfers related to domestic abuse 2700; TDD: 617-494-1757 (VAWA). Roxbury Courthouse Other areas of legal practice: 85 Warren St. Roxbury, MA Asian Outreach Project: Special outreach to Chinese and Walk-in clinics on the 3rd Thursday of the month from Vietnamese speaking clients and legal assistance to 9:00am – 12:00pm will resume after COVID-19 Asian immigrants in the areas of employment and emergency is lifted. family law; representation of client groups in community empowerment initiatives. Dorchester Courthouse Children’s Disability Project: Provides representation to 410 Washington St. Dorchester, MA children with disabilities wrongfully denied Walk-in clinics on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. month from 9:00am – 12:00pm will resume after Consumer Rights Unit: Unfair and deceptive consumer COVID-19 emergency is lifted practices, particularly related to debt collection, home Requirements & Restrictions: Agency serves residents foreclosures, and bankruptcies. of Boston and 31 surrounding cities and towns, mostly Elder Law issues: Includes housing, elder abuse, nursing within Route 128. Complete listing of geographic areas home issues; guardianship; Social Security; MassHealth served is on web site. Income limitations (usually 81 Legal Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org restricted to persons with incomes less than 125% of pro bono cases for homeless and very low-income federal poverty guidelines) are applicable, with the individuals. In order to qualify, clients must be exception of elderly clients and Medicare beneficiaries homeless, using shelter services, or otherwise income who are not subject to the income guidelines. eligible for free legal services. Waiting time: Varies depending on volume. Due to public health and safety concerns surrounding Languages: Interpreters are available for non-English the current coronavirus outbreak, the Legal Clinic is now speakers. operating remotely. They still want to serve clients in need of civil legal assistance. Please contact Clinic Health Law Advocates Manager Sean Thekkeparayil to discuss your civil legal One Federal Street matters: 617-544-3434 ext. 110 or email. 5th Floor Boston, MA 02110 Other Locations: Clinics are operated at the following Phone: 617-338-5241 locations: Toll-free: 888-211-6168 Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) Fax: 617-338-5242 Address: 780 Albany St. Boston, Ma. 02118 [email protected]; www.healthlawadvocates.org/ Contact: Nicole (857) 654-1081 Who to Contact: Paralegal/Intake Coordinator Bridge Over Troubled Waters Services: Health Law Advocate (HLA) is a non-profit law Address: 47 West St. Boston, MA. 02111 firm that provides free advice and representation to low-income Massachusetts residents experiencing Contact: Lindsay (617) 423-9575 ex. 207 difficulty accessing or paying for needed medical Cardinal Medeiros Center services. HLA is committed to ensuring universal access Address: 1960 Washington St. Boston, MA. 02118 to quality health care in Massachusetts, particularly for Contact: Muriel (617) 619-6962 those who are most at risk due to such factors as race, Metro Housing Boston gender, disability, age, or geographic location. Address: 1411 Tremont St. Boston, MA. 02120 Intakes by phone, mail, or email (via form on website) only. Contact: Felisha (617) 425-6650 Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm; no walk-ins Pine Street Inn Requirements & Restrictions: Residents of Address: 444 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA. 02118 Massachusetts only. Must be at or below 300% of the Men’s contact: Ken (617) 892-9230 federal poverty line (about $36,420 a year for an Women’s contact: Julie (617) 892-9318 individual, or $75,000 for a family of four). Southampton Shelter No walk-ins. Address: 112 Southampton St. Boston, MA. 02118 Languages: English, Spanish, Able to assist in all Contact: Pedro (617) 534-6136 languages through use of a language line St. Francis House Lawyers Clearinghouse 7 Winthrop Square Address: 39 Boylston St. Boston, MA. 02116 2nd floor Contact: Fabiana (617) 457-1034 Boston, MA 02110 Women’s Lunch Place Phone: (617) 544-3434 ext. 110 Address: 67 Newbury St. Boston, MA. 02116 [email protected]; Contact: Minerva (617) 267-8104 lawyersclearinghouse.org/ Who to Contact: Legal Clinic Manager Woods Mullen Shelter Services: The Lawyers Clearinghouse operates free legal Address: 794 Massachusetts Ave. Boston, MA. 02118 clinics throughout the year at eight shelter and social Contact: Diniz (617) 534-7157 services locations, where volunteer lawyers from Legal Services Center CORI Sealing Initiative Boston law firms and in-house legal departments take See in Category: CORI 82 Legal Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Services: The MCAD investigates and prosecutes 20 West Street Complaints of Discrimination that occur in Employment, Boston, MA 02111 Housing, Public Places, Access to Education, Lending, Phone: 617-654-0400 and Credit. They also offer training to help prevent Toll Free: 1-866-627-7577 discrimination from occurring. Fax: 617-338-0503 An individual who lives or works in Massachusetts and [email protected]; www.masslawhelp.com/ feels they have been discriminated against can come to Services: Callers are given a referral to a member of the one of the MCAD offices and file a complaint. It will Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA), if appropriate, or then be investigated by staff on their behalf. MCAD are referred to an MBA public service program, a state enforces the state’s anti-discrimination laws in these or local agency, or a legal services agency for possible areas: employment, housing, credit, public free representation. All calls are screened for income. accommodations, and access to education. Referrals to MBA attorneys are based on legal need (on Individuals applying for a job should be aware of what both criminal and civil issues), geographic convenience, employers may ask a prospective employee prior to and the caller’s financial situation. hiring. Massachusetts law guarantees that no person MBA/LRS Automatic Referrals now available at shall be denied the right to work because of his or her www.MassLawHelp.com. Individuals looking for a race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual lawyer will be able to get the name of a qualified MBA orientation, genetics, active military personnel, gender attorney instantly — 24 hours a day, seven days a week identity, age (over 40), criminal record (on job — after filling out a brief online form. The website’s application), or mental or physical handicap/disability. improved capability will benefit legal consumers and Individuals applying for admission to schools, LRS panel members by making connections even more universities, and other educational institutions in accessible. Users will be sent an email listing the name, Massachusetts are protected from discrimination based address, telephone number and email address of the on race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, attorney. The attorney will also receive an email criminal record (on application for admission), containing the user’s contact information, including blindness, deafness and retaliation. telephone number and email address. You can file a complaint in person. No appointment is Anyone needing a reduced fee referral will be asked to necessary. In-person appointments are required for contact the LRS via telephone to determine their most non-housing complaints. You can also file a eligibility. The LRS will also continue to provide referrals complaint by attorney via mail. by phone during normal business hours at (617) 654- There is no fee to file a complaint. You may decide to 0400 or toll-free (866) MASS-LRS/(866) 627-7577. seek an attorney to represent you in the process. If so, Dial-a-Lawyer: On the first Wednesday of every month, the attorney will discuss with you what his or her fee between 5:30pm – 7:30pm, MBA attorneys will answer will be. However, the Massachusetts Commission legal questions (on any area of the law both criminal Against Discrimination never collects a fee from and civil) on the telephone; there is no fee. The someone who files a complaint. telephone number for this service is 617-338-0610, 877- During the COVID-19 health crisis, the MCAD has made 686-0711 (toll-free). temporary emergency changes to its processes and Service hours: M - F: 9am - 4:45pm. No walk-ins please. procedures, including the closing of its offices to the Languages: Translator services available for many public. If you wish to file a Complaint of Discrimination, languages please call 617-994-6000 to schedule a call with and MCAD intake specialist, or have your attorney email Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination requesting instructions for filing on your behalf. (MCAD) 1 Ashburton Place, Suite 601 Service hours: M - F 8:45am - 5pm Boston, MA 02108 Other Locations: Phone: 617-994-6000 MCAD Springfield Office [email protected]; www.mass.gov/mcad 436 Dwight Street, Room 220 83 Legal Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Springfield, MA 01103 Boston, MA 02108 MCAD Worcester Office General Phone: 617-338-2345 Toll-Free (MA only): 1-800-342-9092 484 Main Street, Room 320 Fax: 617-338-2347 Worcester, MA 01608 Intake Phone: 617-338-2345, 4 Requirements & Restrictions: In all but a few Intake- Toll-Free (MA only): 1-800-342-9092, 4 exceptions, the MCAD cannot accept complaints based [email protected]; mhlac.org/ on incidents over 300 days old. You should review the Services: Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee MCAD Questionnaires provides referrals, brief information, advice and, in You should bring with you any relevant names, some instances, direct representation. Priorities include addresses, or telephone numbers, witnesses’ names, access to mental health and related support services, and any other paperwork that will help investigate and public and private insurance matters, rights for establish your allegation of unlawful discrimination. You psychiatric in-patient and out-patient programs, should also be able to give the date the alleged disability discrimination on the basis of mental illness, discrimination occurred. right to refuse treatment, visitation/custody for parents For an employment case: You should have your with mental illness, civil rights of DYS-involved employer’s name, address, the approximate number of adolescents, and special education. employees, and the name of the parent company, if Staff will respond to calls after the caller leaves a applicable. message on the intake line during the hours listed For a housing case: Supply the landlord’s or property below. Intakes are not done on a walk-in basis. manager’s name, the real estate company’s name, or Staff may provide services for those in jail, only if the real estate agent’s name, if appropriate. mental health care is denied or if a person is placed in For public accommodations: Bring the name of the solitary confinement. owner or manager of the establishment. Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm Languages: English, Portuguese, Creole, Chinese Requirements & Restrictions: No criminal Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) representation 40 Court Street Languages: Access to many languages via phone Suite 800 interpreters Boston, MA 02108 National Lawyers Guild: Lawyer Referral Service (Mass. Phone: 617-357-0700 Chapter) Fax: 617-357-0777 41 West Street [email protected];www.mlri.org/ Suite 700 Services: MLRI works with many organizations at the Boston, MA 02111 local, state, and national level on numerous areas of law Phone: 617-227-7335 affecting those with low-incomes. MLRI also Fax: 617-227-5495 coordinates two statewide websites that provide legal [email protected]; information for low-income people and for legal www.nlgmass.org/lawyer-referral-directory/ services advocates on a wide variety of civil legal Who to Contact: Lawyer Referral Service Coordinator matters. Services: The National Lawyers Guild Massachusetts As a general matter, MLRI does not provide legal Chapter maintains a Lawyer Referral Service geared representation to individual clients. towards low- or middle-income clients. A staff member Languages: English, Spanish will provide the caller with the contact information for an attorney with experience in the area of law where MassLegalHelp the client’s legal problem exists. If calling outside of See in Category: CORI regular service hours, leave a message with your name Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee and telephone number, and a staff member will return 24 School Street, Suite 804 84 Legal Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org your call. Alternatively, requests may be submitted via a Phone: 617-423-0648 form on the NLG-Massachusetts website. Fax: 617-423-0061 Service is by telephone and e-mail. Walk-ins are not [email protected]; www.vlpnet.org/ accepted. Services: Free legal assistance to low-income residents Requirements & Restrictions: None of Greater Boston. Only civil cases in following areas: landlord/tenant, family law, guardianship, probate (wills Languages: English only for the referral line. NLG and estates), bankruptcy, unemployment insurance, attorneys speak other languages. Please specify what consumer debt, employment wage and hour violations, language is your primary language to the Referral home ownership, and foreclosure prevention. Service Coordinator. The Legal Resource Finder (LRF) will help you find out if On The Rise, Inc. VLP or some other legal aid program might be able to See in Category: Women help you with your legal problem. It will also give you ProCon.org: Voting Rights links to information that will help you to learn more See in Category: Administrative Issues about your legal issue. The LRF only includes information about civil – not criminal – issues. Click here Public Counsel Services, Roxbury Defenders Unit for the Legal Resource Finder: 7 Palmer St. https://masslrf.org/en/home. Suite 302 Roxbury, MA 02119 If you do not want to use the Legal Resource Finder, you Phone: 617-445-7581 can contact the Legal Advocacy Resource Center (LARC) Fax: 617-445-7587 Legal Advocacy and Resource Center (LARC) hotline at www.publiccounsel.net/ 617-603-1700 or 1-800-342-5297 for intake. Services: Staff will try to answer questions on criminal Whatever you tell LARC is private and confidential. A legal matters. Cases handled will only be Superior Court LARC staff person will ask you some questions to find felonies. Normally, cases are assigned to the Defenders out if you qualify for legal services from VLP or another at the discretion of the Roxbury District Court. office. LARC may be able to give you information or advice about your legal problem. The Roxbury Defenders can help remove warrants and works in conjunction with the Youth Advocacy Division Requirements & Restrictions: which has staff attorneys who specialize in juvenile • VLP does not handle criminal cases or represent cases and with the CPCS Roxbury District office which incarcerated individuals on any matter whether handles District Court matters. related to their incarceration or not. If you do Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm not have a kind of case that VLP handles, LARC can give you information or advice, and may be Requirements & Restrictions: Client must not already able to refer you to an agency that handles that have an attorney kind of case. RESPOND, Inc. • DCF cases are not accepted. See in Category: Domestic Violence • Must live in greater Boston, must be a U.S. The Cambridge Women’s Center citizen or have green card, and must meet See in Category: Women federal poverty guidelines. If residency is United Way’s 211 Helpline outside city of Boston, call to find out if address See in Category: Hotlines is in Volunteer Lawyers Project’s service area. Waiting time: Depends on the issue. No emergencies Veterans Legal Services can be taken. See in Category: Veterans Languages: Interpreters available for many languages. Volunteer Lawyers Project 7 Winthrop Square (Mailing address) WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law 2nd Floor School Boston, MA 02110 122 Boylston Street 85 Legal Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 with a particular focus on issues affecting Phone: 617-522-3003 underrepresented groups within the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Fax: 617-522-0715 Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm; Intake hours vary - www.legalservicescenter.org/ please call. Who to Contact: Intake Staff Requirements & Restrictions: Suffolk County residents Services: Legal assistance is provided in the following only. No criminal issues are handled. civil law areas: Languages: Spanish-speaking interpreter and staff Disability Benefits: Social Security Disability available. representation for disabled clients Women’s Prison and Re-Entry Project Estate Planning: Estate planning and probate, 105 Chauncy Street, 8th Floor guardianship, debt counseling and private insurance Boston, MA 02111 cases for low- and middle-income individuals. This [email protected] service is only provided for veterans. [email protected]; wbawbf.org/wbf- Family Law: Divorce, Domestic Violence, Paternity, Child projects/womens-prison-and-re-entry-project & Spousal Support, Adoption, Guardianship, Guardian Who to Contact: Miriam Ruttenberg or Stephanie ad Litem court appointments and English/Spanish Pro Goldenhersh Se Divorce Clinics Services: When they are not in the midst of a pandemic, Federal Tax Unit: The Federal Tax Unit provides free the Women’s Prison and Re-Entry Project serves legal representation to clients in tax controversies with women incarcerated in Massachusetts’ prisons and jails, the IRS. The Unit works on a wide variety of matters, or those who have been involved with the criminal including family tax issues (e.g., earned income tax justice system. The Project normally operates at South credit, child tax credit, and dependency exemptions), Bay House of Correction in Suffolk County. In teams, tax debt/collection cases (offers in compromise and volunteer attorneys meet with women and answer installment payment agreements), injured and innocent questions regarding family law, child custody, care and spouse claims, and audit reconsiderations. Their work protection, housing, CORI, and criminal warrant on behalf of taxpayers involves, among other things, clearing. During COVID-19 they are not visiting prisons requesting audit reconsideration, representing clients at or jails in person but are available to do Zoom IRS Appeals conferences, drafting and submitting educationals as requested by facilities or re-entry advocacy letters to IRS Appeals, preparing and programs. submitting innocent and injured spouse claims and offers in compromise, and representing clients before WPRP is in the development stages of a Clemency the U.S. Tax Court. Project which will offer representation in petitions for clemency and sentence commutation to elderly Housing Law: Eviction Defense due to foreclosure incarcerated women. The projected start date for the Veteran’s Issues: Veterans Benefits (service-connected Clemency Project is Fall 2021. disability, pension, and other programs from the VA), Meetings are normally held quarterly at Women’s Bar Veterans’ Services benefits (from Massachusetts cities Foundation (WBF) Offices, 5:00-6:30 PM, but during the and towns), other public benefit programs, discharge pandemic, they are held by Zoom (dates on website). upgrades and designated civil matters Please contact Lola Remy at the WBF for Zoom link Services are limited due to staff availability. information at [email protected] LGBTQ+ Advocacy: The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic works with community members, advocates, non-profit organizations, educators, medical professionals, and governmental entities to advance the rights of LGBTQ+ people at both the national and local levels. The Clinic engages in impact litigation, policy advocacy, and direct representation on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community,
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LGBTQ+ Services: The Network provides a variety of services for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender AIDS Action Committee (LGBT) community experiencing partner abuse. The See in Category: Physical and Mental Health organization also provides assistance and referrals to LGBT community members. The web site is in English Boston Health Care for the Homeless; Jean Yawkey and Spanish, is kept up-to-date, and has information Place helpful to the LGBT community. See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Hotline: provides confidential emotional support, Fenway Health information, and safety planning for lesbian, gay, See in Category: Physical and Mental Health bisexual, queer and/or transgender (LGBQ/T) folks, as GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) well as those in SM/kink and polyamorous communities 18 Tremont Street who are being abused or have been abused by a Suite 950 partner. They also offer information and support to Boston, MA 02108 friends, family, or co-workers on the issue of domestic Phone: 617-426-1350 violence in LGBQ/T communities. All hotline staff are Phone (GLAD Answers): 800-455-GLAD (4523) trained in domestic violence, peer counseling, crisis Fax: 617-426-3594 intervention, and safety planning. [email protected]; www.glad.org/ Housing Pathways Program: Who to Contact: Public Information Manager Safehome: The Safehome program offers short-term Services: GLAD maintains GLAD Answers which provides (up to 1-month) emergency housing to survivors legal information, referrals on issues related to sexual (individual or family) at a confidential location. orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and Safehome does not have one specific location; at any expression. These issues include employment and given time, it could be located anywhere in the state. housing discrimination, harassment, HIV testing rights Housing Pathways staff work with the survivor to select and privacy, access to health care, family law, a location that feels safest for that survivor and best fits insurance, immigration, youth and student rights, and their current needs. The primary purpose of the many others. Safehome program is to provide respite in a place that Although you can call, email, or chat online to get more feels safe for the survivor. Call the 24/7 hotline to information, during the COVID-19 pandemic, they are receive updates about the status of space availability not able to answer phone calls live at this time but will and to get connected with this service return your call. Live chat is also unavailable. During this Transitional Housing: Up to 2 years of financial support time, email is the quickest way to get a response. for housing. The type of housing is flexible and can look different for each survivor. Examples of Phase Two Requirements & Restrictions: Target population: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and people with HIV. housing options include sober living programs, sublets, and apartments. Languages: GLAD Answers is in English. Additional languages available through interpreter service. During both phases, participants can receive a wide range of services, such as advocacy, referrals, Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) supportive counseling, and support group See in Category: Legal Support Groups: A confidential facilitated group for The Network – La Red lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and/or transgender P.O. Box 6011 survivors of partner abuse to share and listen to each Boston, MA 02114 other’s experiences, give and get peer support, Main Office: 617-695-0877 feedback and information, and help with safety Hotline (Voice): 617-742-4911 planning. You can receive support over the phone or in Hotline (Toll-free): 800-832-1901 person. Call the Hotline to set up an interview with an Hotline (TTY): 617-227-4911 advocate for the support group. [email protected]; tnlr.org/en/ Service hours: Hotline is 24/7
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Requirements & Restrictions: Target population is Whittier Street Health Center battered members of LBT (lesbian, bisexual, and See in Category: Physical and Mental Health transgender) communities. Will also assist and provide referrals for gay and bisexual men.
Languages: Spanish, English
Tiffany Club of New England P.O. Box 540071
Waltham, MA 02454-0071 Phone: 781-891-9325 Fax: 781-899-3562 [email protected] Services: Tiffany Club of New England (TCNE) is a social and support organization for the transgender community. TCNE provides the following:
• A confidential, respectful and safe physical
location so that members can be who they are as they best feel comfortable doing. Members and visitors can express their true gender in the way most comfortable for them. You don’t have to attend crossdressed. You can come to TCNE
and change in the changing and makeup areas.
• A social support network to provide transgender men and women with peer based social support. • A place for spouses and partners to express their feelings and gain support from people in
similar circumstances • Opportunities for education regarding transgenderism, gender dysphoria, transsexuality, transvestism, and crossdressing. • Social activities for fun • Opportunities for members to help and serve
others in the transgender community by helping to organize and present various educational and social activities • Referral services to therapists and other professionals trained in gender dysphoria issues, crossdressing, transgender, transsexual
and related issues • Connection to other social and support organizations helping to support transgender persons in New England and throughout the United States Service hours: Call on Tuesdays, from 7pm – 9pm or on Saturdays, from 7pm – 11pm to get a live voice
Requirements & Restrictions: Target population: transgender community.
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Older Adults Bay Cove Human Services See in Category: Physical and Mental Health ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) Boston ElderINFO See in Category: Education 89 South St Age Strong Commission Boston, MA 02111 1 City Hall Sq Phone: (617) 292-6211 Room 271 [email protected]; www.elderinfo.org Boston, MA 02201 Services: It is the mission of Boston ElderINFO to be the Phone: (617) 635-4366 resource that meets all the information needs of every [email protected]; Boston elder, person with a disability, and caregivers to www.boston.gov/departments/age-strong-commission live with dignity, safety, and independence in our Services: Provides programming, resources, and communities. Information and referral programs on the connections to Boston residents who are 55+ following: Services include: • Healthy aging classes • Information and Referrals • Boston money management program • Options counseling • Transportation • Resources for home care services • Food Resources Service hours: M-F 9 am - 5 pm • Ways to Save Requirements & Restrictions: Must be an older adult. • Housing Boston Project Rebound Reentry Services Their services remain open and available by phone. In- See in Category: Other Groups person meetings are by appointment only. Please call Boston Senior Home Care 617-635-4366 (Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.) 89 South St. Suite 501 or email [email protected]. Boston, MA 02111 Service hours: M-F 9 am - 5 pm Phone: (617) 451-6400 Other Locations: Fax: (617) 451-6631 The following advocates hold office hours in the TTY: (617) 451-6404 following neighborhoods: bostonseniorhomecare.info/ Deolinda DaVeiga- Mattapan, North Dorchester, Services: Boston Senior Home Care (BSHC) is a private, Roxbury, Cape Verdean Community (citywide) nonprofit human services agency dedicated to ensuring Lorna Heron- Fenway/Kenmore, Hyde Park, South that older adults and individuals with disabilities, Boston particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes with dignity and independence. Since 1974, Connie Mohammed- Bay Village, Downtown, North BSHC has provided adults 60 years of age and older with End/Waterfront, West End affordable in-home care and community-based services. Meghan Bragg- Allston, Brighton Today, BSHC also offers long-term services and supports Nhung (Ivy) Pham- Chinatown, Roslindale, South for people with disabilities of all ages, education to help Dorchester, Vietnamese Community (citywide) individuals maintain a healthy lifestyle and manage Marissa Resnick- Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Jamaica Plain, their chronic diseases, as well as resources and supports West Roxbury for caregivers. Tammy Sutton- Citywide (in-house) Their mission is to empower individuals to achieve the highest level of health, wellbeing and social connection Vilma Valentin- East Boston, Mission Hill, Latino by providing a wide range of services and supports, Community (citywide) including: Call 617-635-4366 if you’d like to meet with an • Home Care program advocate in your community. • Senior Care Options (SCOs) Requirements & Restrictions: Must be 55 or older. 89 Older Adults Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
• One Care Program with agencies throughout Massachusetts. Services • Adult Foster Care include: • Family Caregiver Support Program • Executive Office of Elder Affairs Public Records • Supportive Housing • Reporting Elder Abuse and Neglect • Options Counseling • In-Home Services • Evidence-based Program • Health Insurance Counseling • Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Program • Long-term Services and Supports • Prescription Drug Assistance Service hours: M-F 9 am- 5 pm • Senior Housing Resources Requirements & Restrictions: Must be an elder or an • Councils on Aging & Senior Centers individual with disabilities above the age of 16 years of • Nutrition Program for Seniors age, or a caregiver. • MassHealth for Seniors and People who need Ecumenical Social Action Committee (ESAC) Long-Term Care Services 434 Jamaicaway • Family Caregiver Support Program Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 • Senior Community Service Employment Phone: (617) 524-2555 Program (SCSEP) Fax: 617-524-2430 • Dementia Friendly Massachusetts www.esacboston.org/who-we-are • Assisted Living Services: ESAC works with vulnerable residents of many Boston neighborhoods by creating stability in homes • Advocacy Services and for families. ESAC strives to promote healthy, • Legal help for elders stable, and integrated neighborhoods and communities Service hours: Varies by program. by connecting residents with necessary services and Requirements & Restrictions: Older adults and resources. Services include: individuals with disabilities. • Senior home repair and falls prevention John F. Kennedy Family Services Center • Foreclosure prevention See in Category: Families • Benefits enrollment center Lamour Clinic Health Institute • ESAC Youth Opportunity Collaborative (EYOC) See in Category: Physical and Mental Health • Housing stabilization Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Service hours: Varies by program. See in Category: Transportation Requirements & Restrictions: Child or Older Adult. Some programs require Boston residency or low to North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center (NSC) moderate income. See in Category: Emergency Assistance Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) Senior Centers & Council on Aging (COA) 1 Ashburton Pl. 5th floor 806 Massachusetts Ave Boston, MA 02108 Cambridge Senior Center Phone: (617) 727-7750 Cambridge, MA 02139 Toll Free Elder Abuse Hotline (24/7): (800) 922-2275 Phone: (617) 349-6220 Fax: (617) 727-9368 www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/senio [email protected]; rscouncilonaging www.mass.gov/orgs/executive-office-of-elder-affairs Services: The COA aims to promote and safeguard the Services: Executive Office of Elder Affairs promotes health and independence of Cambridge seniors by independence, empowerment, and well-being of older providing information and referrals. The two senior people, individuals with disabilities, and their families centers provide a variety of services and classes by providing access to services through partnerships including: 90 Older Adults Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
• Senior food pantry Due to the COVID-19 pandemic programming has been • Counseling and support groups limited. Please call ahead for details. • Vision and blood pressure screening Service hours: COVID Hours: 8:30am - 1:00pm (with • Breakfast and lunch service limited programming) • Men’s group • Computer classes Veronica B. Smith Senior Center • Educational and recreational offerings 20 Chestnut Hill Ave Boston, MA 02134 Service hours: Phone: (617) 635-6120 M 8:30 am - 8 pm [email protected]; T-T 8:30 am - 5 pm www.boston.gov/departments/elderly- F 8:30 am - 12 pm commission/veronica-b-smith-senior-center Other Locations: Services: The Veronica B. Smith Senior Center offers the North Cambridge Senior Center following services and programs: 2050 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA. 02140 Health and Nutrition Services: Free preventative health Requirements & Restrictions: Must be a senior over the care screenings such as vision, hearing, and podiatry are age of 60 available along with free flu shots. Fitness programs such as weekly exercise, wellness, and line dancing South Boston Neighborhood House & Senior Center classes, educational workshops, and seminars 136 H St pertaining to health and nutrition are also offered. South Boston, MA 02127 Phone: (617) 268-1619 ext. 301 Direct Services and Programming: A wide range of social [email protected]; www.sbnh.org/senior-services services can be obtained at the Center, including special seminars and workshops on legal issues and Who to Contact: Carole Sullivan government health benefits. Comprehensive programs Services: South Boston Neighborhood House and Senior targeted for seniors in the greatest economic and social Center aim to reduce isolation by offering activities and needs are also in place, as well as on-site English as a services that maintain dignity, health, independence, Second Language classes and translation services. and self-confidence for seniors. These services aim to Medical escort services for non-English speaking seniors enhance physical, intellectual, and creative well-being can also be accessed at the Senior Center. through exercise, interaction, technology, and art Public Information: Senior Spotlight is a monthly classes. Services include: newsletter published and distributed by the Veronica Health and Information Programming: Smith Senior Center with a circulation base of over 600 • Yoga community seniors and dozens of community locations • Weight listing such as nursing homes and elderly housing. Topics • Exercise include issues such as health benefits, upcoming programs and services available at the Center. • Dance Service hours: Everyday 8:30 am - 4 pm • Bowling
• Health seminars
Recreational Programming:
• Bingo
• Games and movies
• Shopping
• Special events
• Holiday parties
• Trips
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Other Groups [email protected]; bostonprojectrebound.org/ ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) Services: Programs See in Category: Education • BPRRS Aftercare Support Program Back On My Feet Boston • Peer Navigation Program 361 Newbury Street • Senior Peer Navigator Program Boston, MA 02115 Phone: 857-293-0845 • Employment Training [email protected] or • Veterans Specialist [email protected]; • Recovery Coach www.backonmyfeet.org/ Website provides additional resources for people Who to Contact: Jennifer Hyde returning to their communities. Services: Members commit to running/walking with one Service hours: of their six teams in the Boston area Monday, M 9am-4pm Wednesday and Friday mornings. After 3 mornings of participation they are able to receive team gear, T 9am-5pm including a pair of running shoes. After 30 days in the W 9am-12pm program, members with 90% attendance earn the Th 9am-5pm opportunity to move into the second phase of the F 9am-5pm program called Next Steps, which provides educational support, job training programs, employment Sat. & Sun. CLOSED partnership referrals and housing resources. Members Closed on all federal holidays can earn financial assistance to remove barriers to Boston Rescue Mission employment and housing such as work supplies, 39 Kingston Street transportation and security deposits. Boston, MA 02111 All their group runs meet every Monday, Wednesday, Phone: 617-338-9000 and Friday. New members and volunteers are always Fax: 617-482-6623 welcome! [email protected]; www.brm.org/ • Team Hope @ 5:45 am outside of 8 Farnham Services: Boston Rescue Mission offers a variety of Street, Boston programs and resources that prevent and end • Team Common Ground/Vets @ 5:45 am near homelessness and support the recovery, health, faith, the Park Street MBTA Station at Park / Tremont and independence of those who have a history of Streets, Boston substance abuse, incarceration, and homelessness. Programs offered include: Requirements & Restrictions: After 3 days of participation members are eligible to receive team gear. Meal Programs: After 30 days participation they are able to enter the • Food Pantry – Every other Wednesday. Located Next Steps Program to be eligible for financial aid. at 39 Kingston Street. All interested members and volunteers must complete • Residential Meals – meals served to residents in paperwork prior to attending their first run. the Safe & Healthy program (2 meals per day) Potential members must be clean and sober to and the Residential Recovery Program (3 meals participate. Cannot accept level 3 sex offenders. per day). Boston Project Rebound Reentry Services • Saturday Morning Outreach – Saturday morning 7 Balfour Street #3 meal served on the Boston Common. No matter Dorchester, MA 02125 what the weather is like outside, the team Main Office: 857-217-5935 brings food, coffee, water, and fellowship to the hungry.
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Safe & Healthy Program: An emergency shelter Street Outreach and Mobile Medical Van: Street providing hot meals, showers, and refuge from the Outreach is Bridge’s daily “foot patrol” of trained street 365 nights per year. outreach workers who make regular consistent contact Emergency Overflow Shelter: During the chilly winter with homeless youth on the street throughout a range months, their emergency shelter hosts people who of neighborhoods in Boston and Cambridge. The Mobile don’t have a place to sleep. Participants arrive in the Medical Van (MMV) connects with the street outreach evening, are screened for safety, and receive meals, team each weeknight. See specific hours below. The shower facilities, and safe beds out of the cold. Guests Van provides medical attention, survival kits, clothes, leave in the morning, but may return the next evening if food and referrals. needed. Runaway Program: Bridge is the local respondent for Vocational Development: Job retention and life skills the national runaway hotline offering 24-hour access to training. a counselor and a safe overnight accommodation away from the streets for homeless youth ages 14-17 for up Spiritual Development: All residents have the to 72 hours. opportunity to meet with the spiritual development team at the Mission to pursue spiritual growth and Traditional Day Program (TDP): Visit the second floor of development. the Bridge building for a free breakfast or lunch. You can shower, use the lockers, do your laundry, attend a Safe Havens Veterans Program: A 10-room short-term workshop, and see a case manager. transitional housing program for veterans with current substance abuse and mental health issues located in Medical and Dental Care: Bridge offers weekly free Dorchester, MA. The Safe Haven program targets medical and dental services staffed by healthcare chronically homeless veterans who have had difficulty professionals at the 47 West Street Facility. with traditional housing programs. Counseling and Support Services: Get help for substance Residential Recovery Program: Residential substance abuse, family & peer relationships, survival needs and abuse treatment program that includes mental health other crisis intervention services. Bridge counselors will services, employment assistance, and housing support and listen to you. assistance. Emergency Residence: Short-term transitional residence Outpatient Substance Abuse Counseling & Day at the 47 West St. location for homeless youth ages 18 Treatment: Outpatient substance abuse program. to 24. Youth commit to counseling, employment and continue their education. During the winter months, Sober Living: A safe, therapeutic and accountable Bridge opens up the Warming Center, as an adjunct to transitional housing community offering the benefits of the ER, each night to youth who need overnight shelter an active substance abuse recovery program and survival each day from November through April. Service hours: Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Education and Career Development Program: Classes offering residential, shelter and meal programs. Shelter for youth to attain their HiSet. Takes place M – F from check-in time: 5pm 9am – 12pm and 1pm – 4:00pm. Flexible schedule, Requirements & Restrictions: Length of stay is night to rolling admissions, guidance counseling for youth who night; Storage space: only for those enrolled in wish to enter or continue college or vocational program. programs. Transitional Living Program: Long-term transitional Bridge Over Troubled Waters residential program. Residents are required to maintain 47 West Street employment, continue their education, and meet Boston, MA 02111 weekly with a counselor. Main: 617-423-9575 Single Parent Home: Transitional living program for TTY: 617-423-9575 *355 pregnant and parenting homeless young women and National Runaway Hotline: 1-800-786-2929 their children. Serves up to 10 families at any given time www.bridgeotw.org/ and may stay for up to 2 years. Services: Bridge offers a comprehensive range of Service hours: services to youth ages 14 to 24 in a positive and safe environment. Intake: Mon. - Fri. 9am - 4:30pm 93 Other Groups Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Mobile Medical Van Hours: Mon. - Fri., 5pm-6:30pm @ John Jay College Institute For Justice And Opportunity Boston Common, 7pm - 8:30pm @ Harvard Square See in Category: Education Requirements & Restrictions: Youth only, ages 14 to 24 Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House Languages: Spanish, English See in Category: Families Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department See in Category: Emergency Assistance 20 Bradston St Boston, MA 02118 Cambridge Multi-Service Center Phone: (617) 635-1000 362 Green Street www.scsdma.org/programs/re-entry-services/ Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-349-6340 Services: Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/camb Department (SCSD) offers comprehensive reintegration ridgemultiservicecenter/mscprograms assistance to our returning citizens, including the following re-entry programs and services on-site and Services: also in partnership with multiple community-based City Programs: organizations: • Case Managers Reintegration Team: The Reintegration Team secures a • Transitional Housing Program wide range of basic, essential re-entry services and is • Support for Tenants at Risk (STAR) available to all sentenced inmates and pre-sentence Community Programs: detainees. Individual discharge planning begins when an • Heading Home inmate enters the institution and continues throughout • Eliot Community Human Services his/her sentence until release. Re-entry services, • HomeStart information and referrals are delivered through • LIFT-Cambridge individual consultation, group workshops, discharge • Legal Services panels, classes and presentations, as well as through virtual technology tools. Areas of re-entry service • Cambridge Haitian Services include housing, recovery treatment, halfway house • Classes in English as a Second Language residential placement, health insurance, identification Service hours: documents, child support, Parole and Probation liaising, Monday: 8:30 AM 8:00 PM benefits and entitlements, veterans’ support, and other Tuesday - Thursday: 8:30 AM – 5 PM related re-entry resources. They also provide workforce Friday: 8:30 AM – noon development to those returning citizens preparing for post-release employment. Emphasis is placed on New client walk-in hours: 9:00 - 10:30 AM and 3:30 - to offering vocational instruction, counseling and training; 5:00 PM career development; resume writing; viable job leads; Please call for appointment employment retention skills; addressing CORI-related Requirements & Restrictions: Must live in Cambridge or issues; improving communication expertise and in a Cambridge shelter. Some other restrictions may fostering good “work culture” habits. Their apply for specific services. Ask when calling for Reintegration Team also maintains ongoing information on services. partnerships with a repertoire of area businesses, Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole private companies and employment-assistance agencies that can offer hiring opportunities to inmates returning Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation to their communities. See in Category: Employment Family Matters: Family Matters is a program developed EMERGE (Batterer’s Intervention) to help inmates and their families work toward positive See in Category: Domestic Violence relationships that strengthen the family unit, reunite Institute for Health and Recovery – Project Promise inmates with their children, and stabilize employment See in Category: Families and housing with the goal of reducing recidivism. The
94 Other Groups Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org family/household of the incarcerated participant is also Region 3 provided community-based resources and services to 100 Willow St., Lynn MA 01902 ease the challenges that are a byproduct of (978) 750-1900 incarceration. Issues of fatherhood, family Region 4 engagement, parenting skills and family support services are addressed in partnership with a network of 340 Main Street, Suite 380, Worcester 01608 local agencies. (508) 753-7252 Community Supervision: The objective of this program Region 5 is to mentor and manage inmates in community settings 436 Dwight Street, Springfield 01103 with the goal of early reintegration into the community (413)-784-1210 with no adverse effect to public safety. Community Region 6 Supervision participants must have a home plan approved by field officers. While in the community, the 499 Essex Street, 1st Floor, Lawrence 01840 client must maintain employment or attend school (978) 687-6342 (part-time or full-time). Region 7 Community Works Program (CWP): The Suffolk County 231 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Brockton 02301 Sheriff’s Department, through the Community Works (508) 587-0987 Program (CWP), sends properly classified inmates nearing the completion of their sentences into Region 8 communities, under the constant watch of an armed 1204 Purchase Street, New Bedford 02740 Sheriff’s deputy, to provide labor for many city, state (508) 999-4820 and town projects. Cleaning vacant lots, beautifying Region 9 roadway intersections, painting street lamps, boarding 188 Concord Street, 2nd Floor, Framingham 01702 and securing abandoned homes and shoveling senior (508) 875-0621 citizen housing walkways are just some of the many innovative jobs the inmates complete. CWP is an ProCon.org: Voting Rights essential part of vocational and job training services See in Category: Administrative Issues provided to offenders before release from the Suffolk Roca, Inc. County House of Correction. 101 Park Street On with Living and Learning, Inc. (OWLL) Chelsea, MA 02150 See in Category: Education Phone: 617-889-5210 Fax: 617-889-2145 Parole Regional Reentry Centers Email: [email protected] Website: rocainc.org/ 60 Clayton Street Roca’s mission is to be a relentless force in 1st Floor Services: disrupting incarceration, poverty, and racism by Dorchester, MA 02122 engaging the young adults, police, and systems at the Phone: 617-376-6262 center of urban violence in relationships to address www.mass.gov/eopss/agencies/parole-board/regional- trauma, find hope and drive change. reentry-centers-overview.html Programs Services: Aftercare services will be made available to returning citizens who complete their sentences • Young Men Program: without supervision and to parolees in the areas of https://rocainc.org/work/young-men-program/ employment, mental health, substance abuse services, • Young Mother’s Program: and vocational training. https://rocainc.org/work/young-mothers- Other Locations: program/ Regions 1 and 2 Covid-19 Update: https://rocainc.org/covid-19-update/ 60 Clayton Street, 1st Floor, Dorchester, MA 02122 Other Locations: (617) 376-6262 Boston 95 Other Groups Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
845 Albany Street Boston, MA 02119 617-442-3101 [email protected]
Lynn 52 Andrew Street Lynn, MA 01901 781-780-9611 [email protected] Springfield 29 School Street
Springfield, MA 01105 413-846-4301 [email protected] Holyoke 384 High Street Holyoke, MA 01040
413-437-7714
Roxbury Multi-Service Center
See in Category: Families
Union of Minority Neighborhoods
42 Seaverns Avenue Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 Phone: 617-942-7577 Fax: 617-522-3351 unionofminorityneighborhoods.org/ Services: The Union of Minority Neighborhoods (UMN) is committed to fully engaging communities of color as active participants in their democracy. UMN trains, organizes, and empowers people of color to effectively access many of the resources that make a difference in people’s lives – from the Commonwealth’s schools, to its workplaces, to its financial institutions, to its voting booths. UMN is working to ensure the collective power as people of color is heard and felt. Call for information on specific meeting times and places. Service hours: M - F, 9am - 5pm
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Physical and Mental Health Alcoholics Anonymous See in Category: Substance Use ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development) Arlington Street Church Friday Night Supper See in Category: Education See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations AIDS Action Committee Asian-American Civic Association 75 Amory Street See in Category: Education Roxbury, MA 02119 Client Services: 617-437-6200 Back On My Feet Boston [email protected]; www.aac.org/ See in Category: Other Groups Who to Contact: Client or Stabilization Advocate Barbara McInnis House (BHCHP) Services: Assists returning citizens with HIV with Jean Yawkey Place housing search and advocacy, rental assistance, legal 780 Albany Street services, case management, peer support, medical Boston, MA 02118 transportation, nutrition and food, medication Walk-in phone: 857-654-1605 adherence, check-in, support groups and mental health Fax: 857-654-1112 services. Will refer clients to health care detox, and www.bhchp.org/about/locations/barbara-mcinnis- substance abuse treatment. Other services include PrEP house counseling and referral, needle exchange, opioid Who to Contact: Walk-in clinic overdose prevention/Naloxone distribution and HIV, Hepatitis C & STI prevention, testing, and education. Services: This is a short-term medical respite program for seriously ill homeless men and women – those Provides services and referrals to drug users, individuals who are too sick for a shelter but not sick transgender people, and homeless youth who are not enough for a hospital. The program provides short-term HIV positive. medical and recuperative services that include All services within the AIDS Action Committee are dermatology, optometry, HIV related services, dental, confidential and free of charge. and behavioral health testing. Service hours: Requires a referral from a social worker, an agency case Office hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm; Walk-ins are OK from manager or clinician who has appropriate medical 9am - 3pm information, or a DOC nurse, or some other medically- Call Client Services for appointments. knowledgeable professional. If you do not have a referral, you may call/walk-in the Jean Yawkey Place to Other Locations: obtain one. See Jean Yawkey Place listing for more Cambridge information. 359 Green St. Requirements & Restrictions: Must have a referral from Cambridge, MA 02139 a hospital, shelter, clinic, social worker, or other health 617-437-6200 care service provider. Patients cannot self-refer for North Shore admission. Can be given through walk-in clinic. 583 Chestnut Street Bay Cove Human Services Suite 6 66 Canal Street Lynn, MA 01904 Boston, MA 02114 857-313-6785 Phone: 617-371-3000 Requirements & Restrictions: For case management – Fax: 617-371-3100 living with HIV/AIDS. Must have a doctor’s note with [email protected]; www.baycove.org/ diagnosis on doctor’s letterhead. Services: Bay Cove Human Services is a private, not-for- Waiting time: Wait list for some housing services; wait profit corporation that provides services to individuals times vary Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian and families who face the challenges of developmental Creole, English and intellectual disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorder, homelessness and/or aging. Call the main 97 Physical and Mental Health Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org office number to be directed to the appropriate Mental Health Services: Services include emergency program. psychiatric evaluations and diversionary services, Substance Use Services: Bay Cove provides a continuum specialized residential services, clubhouse, and peer-led of services which offer effective treatments individually recovery supports and care management that promotes tailored to each person, including acute detoxification improved integration of psychiatric and primary care. treatment; inpatient transitional support services; Service hours: M - F: 8:30am - 6pm. There are recovery homes for men and women; a shelter for scheduled dosing hours on weekends. homeless adults struggling with active addiction; and Requirements & Restrictions: Certain programs may outpatient medication-assisted treatment. have restrictions. Call 617-371-3000 for more Adult Day Health Services: Adult Day Health programs information. provide supports that enable participants to receive Bay State Community Services individualized health, wellness, and social services 1120 Hancock Street designed to help them remain in their home and Quincy, MA 02169 community and live as independently as possible. Phone: 617-471-8400 Child and Family Services: Bay Cove’s Child & Family Fax: 617-376-0619 Services promote the physical, mental and emotional [email protected]; baystatecs.org/ development of children. The Early Intervention (EI) Who to Contact: Front Desk program serves children under three years of age who are developmentally delayed, have a known disabling Services: Bay State Community Services is a condition, or who are at risk of developmental delays comprehensive social services agency that provides due to biological or environmental factors. Their Small counseling outpatient services, day programming, Wonders Nursery School serves children from 16-36 recovery center (peer support), recovery coaching, and months of age and provides exceptional early childhood child and family home-based services. BSCS hosts the education for children with and without disabilities. Quincy and Plymouth Family Resource Centers. Healthcare Integration Services: Bay Cove’s Healthcare Service hours: Please call main number 617-471-8400 Integration Services offer two specialized, integrated or program(s) directly. care coordination programs (One Care Health Home Other Locations: and Community Partner Program) with the overarching Quincy – A New Way Recovery Center objective of helping individuals with complex behavioral 85 Quincy Avenue, Suite B health and long-term support needs navigate complex 617-302-3287 healthcare and social services systems Quincy – Family Resource Center Housing and Homeless Services: Resources include 1120 Hancock Street proactive intervention programs for individuals with 617-481-7227 behavioral health issues, in an attempt to prevent homelessness before it starts; a homeless street Braintree – Home Based Child & Family Services outreach team; daytime and overnight shelters for 400 Washington Street specialized sections of the homeless populations, 781-817-6675 including one of the area’s only shelters for individuals Plymouth – Home Based Child & Family Services dealing with active substance use disorders; and 36 Cordage Park Circle, Suite 305 transitional housing programs. 508-830-3444 Long Term Support Services: These services range from Plymouth – Family Resource Center family supports, which help identify and address the unique challenges faced in keeping a disabled family 430-3 Court Street member in the family home; to individual supports for 774-283-6531 people with disabilities living independently in their Walpole – Turning Point Recovery Center community; to supervised residences and day programs 32 Common Street that promote the development of skills geared toward 508-668-3960 helping individuals achieve greater autonomy. 98 Physical and Mental Health Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (BIDMC) Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Office Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery (CVPR) Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) See in Category: Domestic Violence See in Category: Substance Use Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) Boston Health Care for the Homeless; Jean Yawkey 99 Bishop Allen Drive Place Cambridge, MA 02139 Jean Yawkey Place Phone (24-Hour Hotline): 1-800-841-8371 780 Albany Street Phone (Office): (617) 492 8306 Boston, MA 02118 Fax: (617) 492 3291 Phone: 857-654-1600 [email protected]; barcc.org Fax: 857-654-1107 Services: The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center provides [email protected]; www.bhchp.org/jean-yawkey-place free, confidential support and services to survivors of Services: BHCHP seeks to provide or assure access to sexual violence ages 12 and up and their families and the highest quality health care for all homeless men, friends. They work with survivors of all genders from women and children in the greater Boston area. the immediate crisis after sexual violence to years and Services are provided at medical centers, shelters, and decades later, and their goal is to empower survivors to on the street. heal and seek justice in ways that are meaningful to Patient services at Jean Yawkey Place include primary them. They assist survivors as they navigate the health- care, dental services, family services, HIV care, care, criminal justice, social service, and school systems. pharmacy, podiatry, optometry, behavioral health, Services include the following: transgender program and substance abuse treatment. • Hotline: by phone 24-7 at 800-841-8371 and Some services are provided at special times, call for webchat at barcc.org/chat more information. • 24-7 Medical Advocacy Service hours: Mon. - Fri. 8am to 4pm; Thur. open until • Case Management (assistance with housing, 8pm for Transgender Program health care, and more) Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) • Individual and Group Counseling 1010 Massachusetts Ave, 6th Floor • Legal Advocacy, including immigration services Boston, MA 02118 Services in English and Spanish, with other languages Phone: 617-534-5395 upon request. Fax: 617-534-5358 Service hours: Hotline and medical advocacy: 24-7 [email protected]; Office hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 www.bphc.org/whatwedo/Pages/What-We-Do-by- p.m. Topic.aspx Services: The Boston Public Health Commission, the Other Locations: country’s oldest health department, is an independent Family Justice Center public agency providing a wide range of health services 989 Commonwealth Avenue and programs. Boston, MA 02215 The Commission’s more than 40 programs are grouped Waltham Office: into six bureaus: Child, Adolescent & Family Health; 24 Crescent Street, Suite 202 Community Health Initiatives; Homeless Services; Infectious Disease; Recovery Services; and Emergency Waltham, MA 02453 Medical Services. : Anyone 12 years or older Requirements & Restrictions Programs & Services: welcome. • Father Friendly Initiative (FFI): Languages: Services in English and Spanish, with other https://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/childrens- languages upon request health/father-friendly/Pages/Father- Boston Center for Independent Living, Inc. Friendly.aspx See in Category: Disability 99 Physical and Mental Health Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
• Healthy Baby/Healthy Child (HBHC): and promote wellness through exercise and stress https://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/childrens- reduction. health/healthy-baby-healthy- The Center is also an innovator in transforming its child/Pages/Healthy-Baby-Healthy-Child.aspx practice into a Patient-Centered Medical Home, • Men’s Health and Recovery: improving patient outcomes through stronger provider- http://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/Recovery- patient partnerships in co-managing one’s health. Services/roadmap-to-recovery/Programs-and- Bowdoin’s approach includes a self-care program, a Services/Pages/Men's-Health-and- multidisciplinary care team, group medical visits, Recovery.aspx screenings for depression and home visits. • The Mom’s Project/ Women’s Health and Services include: Recovery: • Adult Medicine http://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/Recovery- • Family Practice Services/roadmap-to-recovery/Programs-and- Services/Pages/MOM'S-Project.aspx • Family Planning • • Entre Familia: HIV Services https://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/Recovery- • Geriatrics Services/roadmap-to-recovery/Programs-and- • OB/GYN Services/Pages/Entre-Familia.aspx • Pediatrics • Southhampton Street Shelter: • Optometry (Eyecare) http://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/homelessness /homeless-services/Pages/locations.aspx • Physical Therapy • Wyman Recovery Home: • Mental Health and Counseling http://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/Recovery- • Nutrition Services Services/roadmap-to-recovery/Programs-and- • Podiatry (Foot care) Services/Pages/Wyman-Community-Reentry- • Community Health Programs Program-.aspx Service hours: Mon-Thurs, 8:00am - 7:00pm; Fri, Service hours: The Help Desk Hours are from 8:00 AM 8:00am-5:00pml most Saturdays, 9:00am - 1:00pm until 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday. COVID-19 Testing Hours of Operation: Mon-Fri: Requirements & Restrictions: Varies by Program 10:00am - 4:00pm, Sat: 10:00am - 1:00pm Bowdoin Street Health Center Waiting time: New patient appointments within two 230 Bowdoin Street weeks Dorchester, MA 02122 Phone: 617-754-0100 Languages: English, Spanish, Cape Verdean Creole, Fax: 617-754-0230 Haitian Creole, Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, Polish [email protected]; Bridge Over Troubled Waters www.bidmc.org/locations/bowdoin-street-health- See in Category: Other Groups center Services: Bowdoin Street Health Center is proud to Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee provide health services to you and your family. They See in Category: Emergency Assistance have been an active participant in the Dorchester Casa Esperanza, Inc. community for over 40 years and offer care for infants, See in Category: Substance Use children, teens, adults and seniors. Casa Myrna Recognizing how social and economic factors in the See in Category: Domestic Violence community can also influence an individual’s health status, Bowdoin Street actively engages with CASPAR, Inc. community organizations and public entities to prevent See in Category: Substance Use violence, improve access to healthy, affordable foods Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston 100 Physical and Mental Health Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations • Information and Referral • Consultation and Education De Novo: Center for Justice and Healing • Juvenile Forensic Court Services See in Category: Legal • Continuing Care Inpatient Services Department of Mental Health and Forensic Services • Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program 25 Staniford Street (MCPAP) Boston, MA 02114 Disability Law Center Phone: (617) 626-8000 See in Category: Disability [email protected]; www.mass.gov/service- details/forensic-services Elizabeth Stone House Services: Court-based forensic mental health 8 Notre Dame Street assessments and consultations for people facing Roxbury, MA 02119 criminal or delinquency charges and civil commitment Main Line: 617-427-9801 proceedings. Services provided: Fax: 617-427-6252 [email protected]; Forensic Mental Health Services: www.elizabethstonehouse.org/ • Court based forensic mental health assessments Services: The Elizabeth Stone House partners with adult and consultations who are facing criminal or and child survivors of domestic violence and related delinquency charges and civil commitment trauma – mental illness, housing instability and proceedings. substance misuse – to achieve safety, stability, and • The Forensic Transition Team provides reentry overall wellbeing. Service offerings include: counseling, services for DMH clients who are transitioning support groups, a transitional housing program, housing from prisons, jails, and other places of assistance, emergency shelter, parenting classes, detention to the community. financial skills development, and more. • Jail diversion activities. COVID-19 Update: The Elizabeth Stone House building is Check out DMH Forensic Mental Health Services at a not open to non-residents, but staff are still available to Glance for more program information. assist individuals via phone. Adult Services: Languages: Spanish • Adult Community Clinical Services • Formerly Community Based Flexible Supports Fathers’ Uplift • Respite Services See in Category: Families • Program of Assertive Community Treatment Fenway Health (PACT) Arsin Building • Clubhouses 1340 Boylston Street • Recovery Learning Communities (RLCs) Boston, MA 02215 • DMH Case Management Phone (Arsin Building): 617-267-0900 • Homelessness Services Phone (Fenway: South End): 617-247-7555 Child, Youth, and Family Services: Phone (Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center): 617-457-8140 • Child/Adolescent Case Management [email protected]; fenwayhealth.org/ • Individual and Family Support Services Services: Services provided by Fenway Health Providers • Day Services include primary care (adults & children), women’s • Caring Together Services health, transgender health, behavioral health, eye care, • Clinically Intensive Residential Treatment (CIRT) and dental care. The Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center, is • Intensive Residential Treatment Programs a program of Fenway Health that provides safe, non- (IRTP) judgmental care for young people ages 12-29 who may • Parent and Family Support Services not feel comfortable going anywhere else. • Transition Age Youth • School and Community Therapeutic Support
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Service hours: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 public COVID-19 Update: open for video/phone appointments, health emergency, hours of operation at 1340 Boylston dental care, and pharmacy delivery and curbside pick Street and Fenway: South End have changed. up. • 1340 Boylston Street: Mon-Fri 8:00am - Daniel Driscoll – Neponset Health Center 5:30pm; Saturday 9:00am - 1:00pm 393 Neponset Avenue • Fenway: South End: Mon-Fri 8:00am - 5:30pm Dorchester, MA 02122 • Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center: Mon-Thurs 617-282-3200 9:00 am - 7:00pm; Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm COVID-19 Update: open for video/phone and in-person appointments, flu shot clinics for patients, and COVID- Other Locations: 19 testing for patients Fenway: South End (142 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA Harbor Community Health Center – Plymouth 02116) 10 Cordage Park Circle Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center (75 Kneeland Street, Plymouth, MA 02360 Boston, MA 02111) 508-778-5470 Languages: Spanish COVID-19 Update: open for video/phone and in-person GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) medical, dental, and behavioral health appointments See in Category: LGBTQ+ Harbor Community Health Center – Hyannis Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) 735 Attucks Ln See in Category: Legal Hyannis, MA 02601 508-778-5420 Harbor Health COVID-19 Update: open for video/phone and in-person 1135 Morton Street appointments, flu clinics for patients, and COVID-19 Mattapan, MA 02126-2834 testing for patients Phone: 617-533-2300 Ellen Jones Community Dental Center Fax: 617-533-2301 www.hhsi.us/ Patriot Square 516 Route 134 Services: Harbor Health Services Inc. is a non-profit South Dennis, MA 02660 public health agency with a mission to help individuals 508-778-5400 achieve their full potential through access to local, affordable services that promote health. Harbor Languages: Interpreter services available. provides medical, behavioral health, dental, and Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center support services to more than 34,000 patients in 632 Blue Hill Avenue Boston, the South Shore, and Cape Cod. Dorchester, MA 02121 Harbor Health operates five community health centers: Phone: 617-825-3400 [email protected]; www.harvardstreet.org/ • Geiger Gibson Community Health Center • Daniel Driscoll – Neponset Health Center Services: Harvard Street Health Center provides the • Harbor Community Health Center – Plymouth following services: • Harbor Community Health Center – Hyannis • Adolescent Clinic • Ellen Jones Community Dental Center – Dennis • Adult Medicine Service hours: Varies by location, check website. • Behavioral Health Other Locations: • Dental Geiger Gibson Community Health Center • Laboratory 250 Mt Vernon St • Nutrition Dorchester, MA 02125 • OB/GYN 617-288-1140 • Pediatrics
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• Pharmacy appropriate health and education programs to the Programs Latino Community of Greater Boston. • Food Pantry Programs • Mothers and Children in Process • Veterans Center • Adult Day Health Care • WIC • Senior Programs Service hours: M - W: 8:30am - 8pm; Th: 8:30am - COVID-19 Update: https://laalianza.org/es/covid-19- 4:30pm; F: 9:30am - 4:30pm; Saturday: 9am - 3pm consejos-y-mas/. Other Locations: Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm Behavioral Health Address & Telephone: Requirements & Restrictions: None 895 Blue Hill Avenue Languages: Spanish, English Dorchester, MA 02124 Lamour Clinic Health Institute Phone: 617-822-7129 44 Diauto Drive Waiting time: Walk-ins could have a 1-hour wait Randolph, MA 02368 Languages: English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Phone: 781-885-7252 Korean, various West African [email protected]; lamourclinic.org/ Institute for Sexual Wellness Services: Lamour Clinic Health Institute offers See in Category: Sex Offenders community-based services for adults, children, and adolescents focused on restoration, enhancement, Justice Resource Institute (JRI) maintenance of health and wellness, and alleviation of 160 Gould Street, Suite 300 symptoms that interfere with daily life. Please refer to Needham, MA 02494 the Lamour Clinic Health Institute website for a full list Phone: 781-559-4900 of programs for Geriatrics, Adults, Adolescents, and Fax: 781-599-4901 Children. jri.org/ Service hours: Services: JRI works in partnership with individuals, families, communities and government to pursue the M-Th: 8:30am-7:30pm social justice inherent in opening doors to opportunity F: 8:15am-5pm and independence. JRI offers a wide array of services Sat: 9am-4pm including: long-term intensive residential treatment Other Locations: programs and short-term stability support for youth, Medford, MA. youth education programs, outpatient mental health services, in-home and community-based, residential Dorchester, MA. and day programs for individuals who have Languages: Cambodian, Cape Verdean Creole, Chinese, developmental disabilities, foster care and childhood English, French Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, services, and specialized health and housing services for Spanish, Vietnamese individuals living with and at risk for HIV and HCV. Service hours: Mon-Fri: 9am - 5pm Louis D. Brown Peace Institute 15 Christopher St. Dorchester, MA 02122 La Alianza Hispana Phone: 617-825-1917 1000 Massachusetts Avenue #101 Fax: 617-265-2278 Boston, MA 02118 [email protected]; Phone: 617-427-7175 www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/ Fax: 617-442-2259 [email protected]; www.laalianza.org/ Services: The Louis D. Brown (LBD) Peace Institute is a center of healing, teaching, and learning for families Services: La Alianza Hispana is a community-based and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief, organization providing culturally and linguistically 103 Physical and Mental Health Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org and loss. The LBD Peace Institute offers various services Women Connecting Affecting Change – A women led for survivors of trauma and families of incarcerated program that addresses needs of Black, Latina, and loved ones services as well as the Survivors Leadership other women at high risk for infection. Services are Academy. provided at a Drop-In Center on Blue Hill Avenue in Louis D. Brown Peace Institute provides services that Dorchester. HIV/STI screening, one-on-one counseling, are consistent and compassionate for families of group counseling, peer-support is provided, and risk murdered loved ones and families of incarcerated loved reduction services including access to syringe services ones to prevent cycles of retaliatory violence. are provided. Services include: Casa Iris – A peer support, Drop-In Center for Latinos/Latinas offers support groups for Latinx • Survivors Outreach Services individuals living with HIV, referrals to other health and • Community Re-Entry Preparation Services social services, and individual peer support designed to • Wholistic Healing Workshops help clients manage their health and thrive. • Stars & Stripes Girls Group AFIA- Africans for Improved Access provides HIV/STI • Healing & Recovery Support Group prevention, education, and support services to the African immigrant and refugee community in • Writing Workshops Massachusetts. They also facilitate cultural competency • Support group for boys and men who have training for providers who serve African immigrants and been impacted by community violence refugees. AFIA offers group-level and individual-level • Mindfulness course services tailored for individuals from the Sub-Saharan African community. Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) See in Category: Substance Use Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm Other Locations: Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee See in Category: Legal Multicultural AIDS Coalition- Dorchester Location 409 Blue Hill Ave Multicultural AIDS Coalition 9 Palmer Street Dorchester, MA 02121 Roxbury, MA 02119 Women Connecting Affecting Change Phone: 617-442-1622 409 Blue Hill Avenue Fax: 617-442-6622 Dorchester, MA 02121 www.mac-boston.org/ Waiting time: Clients can make appointments to Services: The Multicultural AIDS Coalition mission is to received services or drop into their locations. mobilize communities of color to end the HIV epidemic. Languages: Spanish, Some African Languages, English Multicultural AIDS Coalition provides integrated HIV/STI testing – includes one-on-one counseling, screening for National Sexual Assault Hotline HIV, hepatitis C, syphilis, Chlamydia, and gonorrhea. See in Category: Hotlines They also provide various groups both educational and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline support groups. Follow-up support services and See in Category: Hotlines navigation to treatment is provided. MAC follows all COVID-19 protocols for clients and staff. Network of Care (Massachusetts) massachusetts.networkofcare.org/mh/services/index.as Specific Programs Include: px CONNECTED Boston – Comprehensive prevention, Services: Network of Care Massachusetts offers a screening, and care services for gay, bisexual, and other directory of over 5,000 programs and organizations men who have sex with men. A Drop-In Center provides across the Commonwealth, searchable by keyword and a variety of HIV and other health services as well as a zip code. This comprehensive directory can help safe space for the LGBT persons of color. individuals find resources and services to help with
104 Physical and Mental Health Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org mental health, substance use, and social service to Online and text chat service available: Individuals may support good health and recovery within communities chat online or text “PPNOW” to 774636 (PPINFO) to get Covid-19 Behavioral Health Information Hub for answers about pregnancy, birth control, emergency Massachusetts: https://massachusetts.networkofcare.o contraception, STDs, and abortion. Standard message rg/mh/content.aspx?cid=9261 and data rates may apply. New Beginnings Re-Entry Services (NBRS) Service hours: Hours vary by location. Visit website for See in Category: Women more information. Other Locations: New England Center and Home for Veterans See in Category: Veterans Central MA Health Center: 470 Pleasant Street New England Forensic Associates Worcester MA 01609 See in Category: Sex Offenders Western MA Health Center: New England Index: Information on Disabilities 3550 Main Street Exchange Springfield MA 01107 See in Category: Disability Metro West Health Center: On The Rise, Inc. 91 Main Street See in Category: Women Marlborough MA 01752 Out For Good, Inc. Requirements & Restrictions: Some appointments See in Category: CORI require parental consent for minors. Parole Regional Reentry Centers Waiting time: Varies. PPLM offers walk-in appointments See in Category: Other Groups or you can call or book an appointment online Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Languages: Translation services are offered for most 1055 Commonwealth Ave languages Boston, MA 02215 Right Turn Phone: 800-258-4448 See in Category: Substance Use [email protected]; Rosie’s Place www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood- See in Category: Women massachusetts Services: Roxbury Multi-Service Center See in Category: Families • Routine gynecological care • Abnormal Pap Test Management Roxbury Youthworks, Inc. • Birth Control Options See in Category: Families • Emergency Contraception Samaritans • Pregnancy Testing See in Category: Hotlines • Abortion • Sexually Transmitted Infections Testing and Spectrum Health Systems 10 Mechanic St., Suite 302 Treatment Worcester, MA 01608 • HIV Testing Phone: 508-792-5400 • PrEP www.spectrumhealthsystems.org/ • HPV Vaccinations • Free condoms at all their health centers Services: Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals impacted by addiction • A sexual health counseling and referral hotline and/or mental health disorders. • PEP • Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy Today, they offer a continuum of addiction treatment services across Massachusetts, including inpatient detoxification, residential rehabilitation, medication- 105 Physical and Mental Health Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org assisted treatment, outpatient counseling and peer management. Each student enrolled in classes will recovery support. receive an academic assessment which is used to Spectrum also operates a number of residential develop the student’s Individual Learning Plan (ILP). programs for the Massachusetts Department of Youth Other programs include: Services. And, they have state contracts throughout the • Early Head Start – center-based and home- country to provide specialized programming for criminal based services to expectant families and offenders with histories of substance abuse. children birth to 3 years Service hours: Mon-Fri: 8am - 5pm • Head Start – center-based services for children Other Locations: Several locations, please check ages 3-5 years website. • School Readiness – center-based child care for Languages: Spanish children ages 4 months to 5 years St. Francis House • Early Intervention – services for children birth See in Category: Emergency Assistance to 3 years with disabilities and/or developmental delays Steppingstone Incorporated See in Category: Substance Use Anyone interested should call 617-442-8800 x1219, for an intake appointment. The Cambridge Women’s Center Service hours: For Adult Education: Class Times M - F: See in Category: Women 9:30am - 1:30pm, classes are given in 13-week cycles The Dimock Center Other Locations: 55 Dimock Street Educational Facility: Roxbury, MA 02119 Phone: 617-442-8800 1800 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury [email protected]; www.dimock.org/ Requirements & Restrictions: For Adult Education: Services: The Dimock Center provides the residents of Applicants must be at least 18 years old. Boston with convenient access to high quality, low cost Waiting time: Open-enrollment health care and human services. The Federation for Children with Special Needs Health Center: Here, patients have a team of doctors, See in Category: Disability medical personnel and staff working in coordination to help them become and remain healthy and strong. The Home for Little Wanderers Doctors and nurses, nurse practitioners and case See in Category: Families managers, eye care specialists and dentists – their The Women’s Center highly qualified experts all work together to ensure that See in Category: Women patients and families have the resources they need, Therapy Matcher from birth through life. Healthcare services include: Phone: 617-720-2828 adult medicine, community care, dental, eye care, Toll-free: 1-800-242-9794 OB/GYN, pediatric services, patient info, and pharmacy. [email protected]; www.therapymatcher.org/ Hours vary by service. Services: Therapy Matcher is a free, confidential Behavioral Health: Acute Treatment Services (ATS), telephone referral service offered by the National Residential Services, Outpatient Services, Emergency Association of Social Workers, MA Chapter. Provides Shelter professional, personalized counseling referrals matched Child and Family Services: A sequence of classes are for location, specialty, and insurance or fee offered that start at the most basic level and prepare requirements. students for successful transition to post-high school Service hours: Call or email any time, and a staff person education or training. In addition to classes, the will get back to you. program provides employment counseling, professional development, introduction to computers, and case United Way’s 211 Helpline
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See in Category: Hotlines Languages: Spanish, English, Creole, Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, and Arabic Upham’s Corner Health Center 415 Columbia Road V.A. Boston Healthcare System for Women Veterans Dorchester, MA 02125 See in Category: Veterans Phone: 617-287-8000 Victory Programs Inc. Fax: 617-287-1500 See in Category: Housing [email protected]; uphamscornerhealthcenter.org/ Who to Contact: Registration Whittier Street Health Center 1290 Tremont Street Services: Health center and social services for adults Roxbury, MA 02120 and children. The health center provides a range of Phone: 617-427-1000 services including: Fax: 617-989-3247 • Medical Care – Family Medicine & Primary Care; [email protected]; www.wshc.org/ Pediatrics (Children); Adult Medicine; Family Services: At Whittier Street Health Center, they are Planning; OB/GYN & Midwifery; Prenatal Care; dedicated to providing high quality and accessible Pharmacy; Laboratory Services; HIV Rapid clinical services to all of their patients. Testing service – confidential HIV testing; Podiatry (foot); Dermatology (skin); Eye Care; Clinical Services and Adult Day Health • Primary Care • • Pharmacy – Please call 617-265-1310 Specialty Care • Oral & Eye Care • Home Care o General Dentistry, Oral Surgery, and • Nutrition, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Orthodontics Program o Eye Care • Behavioral Health and Social Services o Eye Wear Dispensary • Dental Services • Pharmacy • Community Health Programs • Elder Service Plain Anti-Violence Programming Service hours: M – Th: 8:30am – 8pm; F: 10am – 5pm; Sat: 9am – 12:30pm • Community Outreach and Education Services • Post Prison Release/ Re-Entry Program Other Locations: Whittier Street Health Center accepts walk-ins. When Teen Clinic and HIV & Women, Infant and Children’s the Center is closed, a 24/7 live answering service will Program attend to all calls and direct to a provider on call. 415 Columbia Road, Dorchester MA 02125 Service hours: M-F: 8:30am – 8pm; Sat: 8:30am – 5pm Tel: 617-287-0786 Tel: 617-825-8994 (WIC) Other Locations: Dental & Eye Care Whittier Street Health Center – Satellite Clinic 636 Columbia Road, Dorchester MA 02125 278 Blue Hill Avenue Tel: 617-825-9839 Roxbury, MA 617-858-2550 Upham’s Elder Service Plan (UESP) / PACE M-F: 8:30am – 5pm Savin Hill 1140 Dorchester Ave, MA 02125 Requirements & Restrictions: Whittier will not deny Dudley Square 36 Dearborn Street MA 02119 services to any patient due to the inability to pay, Jackson Square 125A Amory St, Boston, MA 02119 disability, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national UESP/PACE Tel: 617-288-0970 origin, or religion. Requirements & Restrictions: Dorchester residents Discounts are available for patients based on family size Waiting time: 7-10 days and income.
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Languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Arabic, Bosnian, Krio, Portuguese, Yoruba, Russian, Farsi, Somali, Urdu, Haitian Creole
Women’s Lunch Place See in Category: Women
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Sex Offenders division that provides assistance on issues relating to the Sex Offender Registry and classification. Boston Release Network The website is designed to provide information for PO Box 51275 attorneys; however, it also contains information that Boston, MA 02205 former sex offenders may find helpful, including Phone: 857-243-7979 overviews of the sex offender registration and [email protected]; notification act, civil commitment, lifetime community bostonreleasenetwork.org/ parole, and information on sex offender legislation, Services: The Boston Release Network (BRN) is regulations and registration fees. dedicated to the successful reintegration into the Institution for Sexual Wellness community of released persons who have committed a 53 Winter Street sexual offense. BRN is also a resource for information to Weymouth, MA 02188 persons with sex offenses who face problems in their Phone: 617-479-4501 community primarily due to registration issues. Those Fax: 617-479-8109 concerns include housing, employment and compliance [email protected]; with statutory mandates of registration laws. instituteforsexualwellness.org/ Programs: Services: The Institution for Sexual Wellness provides Charlie Card- A monthly “Charlie Card” is provided upon evidence‐based comprehensive assessment, psycho- release. pharmacological and psycho-therapeutic sex offender Cost: $84.50 per client per month treatment to individuals whose behaviors pose a high risk to themselves and/or others. Services offered Fund-A-Phone- An activated “smartphone” is provided include full clinical evaluations, dynamic risk to each returning citizen with BRN covering up to the assessments and treatment needs evaluation, interim first six (6) months of service. During this period, the evaluation, firesetting evaluations, forensic evaluation client is encouraged to sign-up with other programs and consultation, group and individual therapy, as well help continue to cover the $30 monthly service bill. as psycho-pharmacological therapy. Cost: $190 – $240 per client Call the Institution for Sexual Wellness at (617) 479- Compensated Education- Compensation is provided to 4501 to schedule an initial appointment. clients who choose to attend approved reintegration Service hours: M-W: 9am-5pm, and flexibility as on a classes provided by organizations with which BRN has needs-be basis developed a working partnership. Languages: English Release Pack- A secure, durable, waterproof backpack is provided upon release. Packs contain toiletries, Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual undergarments, shower shoes, and a padlock. Abusers (MATSA) P.O. Box 920811 Cost: $75 per client Needham, MA 02492 CPCS-Alternative Commitment & Registration Support Phone: 857-244-1413 Unit [email protected]; matsa.info/ 100 Cambridge St. 14th Floor Services: This is a professional association of clinicians Boston, MA 02114 and other professionals in the field of sex offender Main Office: 617-482-6212 evaluation and treatment. The MATSA Resource Fax: 617-988-8493 Directory, a list of treatment providers, is available [email protected]; here: http://matsa.info/resource-directory/. Messages www.publiccounsel.net/pc/sorb/ should be left on the answering machine. Who to Contact: Assignment Coordinator at the Alternative Commitment & Registration Unit New England Forensic Associates 22 Mill St. #306 Services: The Alternative Commitment and Registration Arlington, MA 02476 Support Unit (ACRSU) is a unit of the private counsel Phone: 781-643-0610 109 Sex Offenders Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Fax: 781-643-1609 registration fee for individuals who qualify as indigent. [email protected]; www.nefacorp.com/ The website provides an updated sex offender Services: NEFA is a nationally recognized center for the brochure. Staff at SORB can also answer questions and evaluation and treatment of problematic sexual offer support for community-based programs. behavior. Service hours: M – F: 8am – 5pm NEFA provides: Requirements & Restrictions: Homeless sex offenders • Individual and group therapy must verify registration every 30 days. Non-homeless • Outpatient Therapy sex offenders must verify registration annually. • Specialized Treatment Programs • Psychological Evaluation • Psychometric Assessment
• Employment and Human Resources Screening
• Professional Consultation • Expert Witness Testimony Service hours: Office Hours: M – Th 9am – 5pm Requirements & Restrictions: Client needs to be accepted to treatment by a clinician Waiting time: Less than a month for appointments Languages: English, Spanish Registrants and Families Support Line See in Category: Hotlines Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) P.O. Box 392 North Billerica, MA 01862
Main Office: (978) 740-6400 www.mass.gov/sorb Who to Contact: Registration Unit 978-740-6503, Classification Unit 978-740-65 Services: Website provides Board forms as well as summaries of information on registration requirements and fees, the requirement that sex offenders verify their registration every 30 days if homeless or living in a homeless shelter (registration is required annually in- person at live address, police department for level 2 and 3; by mail if level 1 or unclassified), and penalties for failure to comply with the various requirements. The site also lists recent changes in relevant Massachusetts
General Laws and other information and regulations for sex offenders. The site also lists Level 3 and Level 2 (if classified after July 12, 2013) offender information including photos, searchable by last name, community, county, zip code, incarcerated or violators, and provides numerical counts for Level 2 and 3 offenders by city, town, or Boston neighborhoods.
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Shelters go through the pre-screening process by calling 781- 893-0108, Monday through Friday. Phone calls are Barbara McInnis House (BHCHP) accepted beginning at 9:00am. See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Upon completion of the intake process, clients are given Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) access to individualized case management services, See in Category: Physical and Mental Health meant to address and provide referrals for a wide spectrum of topics, including housing, employment, Boston Rescue Mission mental health, substance abuse, financial insecurity, See in Category: Other Groups nutrition and more. Bridge Over Troubled Waters Requirements & Restrictions: See in Category: Other Groups • 18+ Bristol Lodge Men’s Shelter • Dry facility: Participants must remain sober and 27 Lexington Street free of intoxicating substances of any type Waltham, MA 02452 • 90-day maximum stay, plus a 30-day waiting Phone: 781-893-0108 period before readmission Fax: 781-647-3249 Casa Myrna [email protected]; www.mhsainc.org/mensshelter See in Category: Domestic Violence Services: The Bristol Lodge Men’s Shelter provides temporary, emergency shelter accommodations for 45 CASPAR, Inc. homeless adult men. It operates on a first-come, first- See in Category: Substance Use served basis. If you are in need of a bed, you must go Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston through the pre-screening process by calling 781-893- See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations 0108, Monday through Friday. Phone calls are accepted Father Bill’s Place beginning at 9:00am. 38 Broad Street Upon completion of the intake process, clients are given Quincy, MA 02169 access to individualized case management services, Phone: 617-770-3314 meant to address and provide referrals for a wide helpfbms.org/help/ spectrum of topics, including housing, employment, Services: Father Bill’s Place is an emergency shelter for mental health, substance abuse, financial insecurity, individual adults experiencing homelessness. The main nutrition and more. goal is to help people get stabilized and on a pathway Requirements & Restrictions: toward permanent housing and self-sufficiency. Father • 18+ Bill’s Place provides supportive services, access to on- • Dry facility: Participants must remain sober and site shower facilities and a medical clinic, and referrals free of intoxicating substances of any type to community agencies, including those in mental • 90-day maximum stay, plus a 30-day waiting health, substance abuse, housing, and employment. 3 period before readmission meals a day can also be provided. Service hours: Check-In: line up at 4:00pm for 4:30pm; Bristol Lodge Women’s Shelter Check-Out: 7:30am 205 Bacon Street Waltham, MA 02451 Other Locations: Phone (Registration): 781-893-0108 54 North Main Street Phone (After 4pm only): 781-894-1225 Brockton 02301 [email protected]; www.mhsainc.org/womensshelter 508-587-5441 Services: The Bristol Lodge Women’s Shelter provides Requirements & Restrictions: Guests must prove tie or temporary, emergency shelter accommodations for 12 connection to the greater Quincy/Brockton/South Shore homeless adult women. It operates on a first-come, area; Must speak to assessment specialist; Male or first-served basis. If you are in need of a bed, you must Female, 18+; Sex offenders must register with Quincy/Brockton Police Department. 111 Shelters Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Waiting time: Lottery system. No referrals are taken. • Dry shelter – no drugs, no alcohol Languages: Languages are provided on an at-need basis Heading Home First Church in Cambridge The Schrafft Center See in Category: Faith-Based 529 Main Street, Suite 100 Charlestown, MA 02129 Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS) 66 Winthrop Street Phone: 617-864-8140 Fax: 617-864-2541 University Lutheran Church Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected]; www.headinghomeinc.org/ Phone: 617-547-2841 Services: Heading Home offers a variety of services Toll-free: 1-888-285-4038 available to individuals and families. These include: [email protected]; hshshelter.org/ Shelters & Emergency Services: Services: The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter serves Dorchester and Roxbury Family Shelters: 6 emergency the community of individuals experiencing assistance shelters for 42 families. homelessness in Cambridge and Boston. They provide Cambridge Shelter: Emergency shelter with capacity for guests with shelter, food, security, and a supportive 21 individuals. environment of mutual respect. In addition to providing Transitional Housing: these fundamental needs, HSHS works individually with those who seek their assistance as they strive to attain Medford Family Life Education Center: Emergency their own goals and make the transition into shelter for 6 families and transitional shelter for 2 independent living. families. Call between 7:30am and 8:00am to enter the lottery Transitional Apartments: 17 supported single-resident for a 14-night bed at the following toll-free number: 1- apartments for families receiving support services. 888-285-4038. Permanent Housing: Call back between 8:05am – 8:30am or 7pm – 9pm to Congregate Housing: Supported permanent housing find out if a 14-night bed was received. provided for men and women with shared living spaces Call between 9:00pm – 9:30pm to enter the lottery in Cambridge. for a 1-night emergency bed (same night). Scattered-Site Apartments Call back after 9:40pm to find out if a 1-night bed was Permanent Housing Partnership: Permanent housing received (must be able to come in by 11:00pm). and intensive services for individuals with disabilities, Length of stay: Beds are either 14-night or 1-night beds. provided through partnerships with housing development corporations. COVID-19 UPDATE: HSHS will remain closed this winter due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Student volunteers, If you are a homeless individual looking for housing, working with UniLu, will provide nightly street outreach please contact Michael Montanille, Individual Services around Harvard and Central Squares with food, Intake Coordinator at 617.864.8140, ext. 119 or blankets, hygiene products, and other donated goods. download a copy of their application for permanent HSHS’s resource advocacy team is operating a helpline housing online. with information about resources related to food, Service hours: Varies by program donated goods, health care, benefits, and more. Call Requirements & Restrictions: Different programs may (888) 285-4038 for assistance. Helpline hours are have requirements; ask when applying. Monday-Friday 1pm-5:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-7pm. Hearth See in Category: Housing Service hours: 7:00pm until 8:00am Sunday through Friday, Saturday until 9:00am. HSHS runs between New England Center and Home for Veterans November 1 and April 15. See in Category: Veterans Requirements & Restrictions: Pine Street Inn • Self-referral 444 Harrison Avenue 112 Shelters Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Boston, MA 02118 The Network – La Red General Information: 617-892-9100 See in Category: LGBTQ+ [email protected]; www.pinestreetinn.org/ Women’s Lunch Place Services: Pine Street Inn partners with homeless See in Category: Women individuals to help them move from the streets and shelter to a home, and assists formerly homeless individuals in retaining housing. They provide street outreach, emergency services, supportive housing, job training and connections to employment. Programs • Emergency Services
o Street outreach
o Front Door Triage
o Emergency shelter • Permanent Housing • Workforce Development
o iCater Housekeeping o • Additional Services
Homeless Court o o Recovery Services COVID-19 Updates: https://www.pinestreetinn.org/about-us/covid-19- update.
Other Locations: Women’s Inn at Pine Street: 363 Albany Street, Boston Shattuck Shelter: 170 Morton Street, Jamaica Plain Requirements & Restrictions: Must be homeless; Ages 25 and older only; Alcohol/drugs/drug paraphernalia/weapons are not permitted on premises. Unregistered sex offenders are prohibited from the premises.
Waiting time: Depends on availability
Languages: English, Spanish Project Hope See in Category: Families
RESPOND, Inc. See in Category: Domestic Violence Rosie’s Place See in Category: Women
Somerville Homeless Coalition
See in Category: Housing
St. Francis House See in Category: Emergency Assistance
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Substance Use Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park Boston, MA 02210 Adcare Treatment Centers Phone (English): 617-426-9444 50 Congress Phone (Spanish): 617-623-1570 Suite 430 www.aaboston.org/ Boston, MA 02109 Services: Information on alcohol abuse and treatment. Criminal Justice Services: 508-763-2101 Meetings and hotline available. Boston Outpatient Services: 617-227-2622 VIRTUAL MEETINGS: Local on-line and in-person adcare.com/ meetings listed on website. Listings of online meetings Services: The AdCare mission is to improve the lives of outside the area can be found at https://aa- their patients and families by providing safe, effective, intergroup.org/ recovery-based alcohol and drug treatment. Service hours: M - F: 9am - 9pm; Weekends and Programs: holidays: 12pm - 9pm • Inpatient Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese • Outpatient Bay Cove Human Services • Families See in Category: Physical and Mental Health • Criminal Justice Services Bay State Community Services Includes Substance Abuse Treatment, o See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Adult Education, Life-skills Programs and Vocational Readiness, Reentry Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Office Support, and many more. Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program JYP Clinic o Contact [email protected] for more information 780 Albany Street Online Services: Boston, MA 02118 • Virtual Support Meetings Phone: 857-654-1628 Fax: 857-654-1487 • AdCare Telehealth Services www.bmcobat.org/ Service hours: M – F: 8:30am – 8pm Services: Other Locations: Outpatient Services • Case Management • 1419 Hancock St. • Recovery Coaching Suite 201 • Behavioral Health Quincy, MA 02169 • Suboxone (Buprenorphine) maintenance, 617-328-0639 • Sublocade (subcutaneous Buprenorphine) • 88 Faunce Corner Road • Naltrexone (Vivitrol) North Dartmouth, MA 02747 508-999-1102 OBAT HOC program: BHCHP has partnered with the • 95 Lincoln Street Suffolk County House of Correction to implement a Worcester, MA 01605 novel intervention to expand access to medication for 508-453-3053 addiction treatment (MAT) for incarcerated, homeless • 117 Park Avenue individuals. This work is being funded by the Substance West Springfield, MA 01089 Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 413-209-3124 (SAMHSA) and takes place at South Bay House of Correction (SBHOC). Prior to release, individuals receive AIDS Action Committee comprehensive opioid use disorder (OUD) care to See in Category: Physical and Mental Health include intensive care coordination, individual and/or group behavioral health care, recovery coaching, and Alcoholics Anonymous medication (in the 30 days prior to release). 12 Channel St., Suite 604
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The goal is to serve 200 unique individuals total across cultural and social needs of Latina women in the three-year grant period. To be eligible for this recovery and their children service, individuals must meet the following criteria: • Familias Unidas Relapse Prevention & • Homeless in Boston, and/or connected to Outpatient Services Program: For more BHCHP for care information, visit • Opioid Use Disorder https://www.casaesperanza.org/wp- • Sentenced content/uploads/2018/12/FUOP-1-Pgr.pdf • Located at SBHOC • Conexiones Clinical Stabilization Services: 14- For more information about this project, please contact day bedded program providing clinical Kamala Smith, BHCHP’s Project Director, at (857) 291- stabilization services to men and women in 5086 or [email protected] recovery from alcohol and substance use Service hours: Mon. - Fri. 7am to 4pm; Tues. and Thurs. • Peer & Graduate Services open until 7pm; Tues. closed from 12p-4p • Supportive Housing Walk-ins welcome Service hours: Varies by program. Requirements & Restrictions: Serving individuals who Requirements & Restrictions: Varies by program. are currently experiencing homelessness, “doubled up” Waiting time: Varies by program (not on the lease of where they are staying), or at risk of becoming homeless with substance use. Languages: Spanish, English Languages: All languages made possible through phone CASPAR, Inc. interpreter services 240 Albany Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Boston Project Rebound Reentry Services Phone: 617-661-0600 See in Category: Other Groups Fax: 617-492-3939 Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) www.casparinc.org/ See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Services: CASPAR (Cambridge And Somerville Program for Addiction Recovery) is a community-based non- Boston Rescue Mission profit organization founded in 1970 in response to See in Category: Other Groups growing community need for substance use disorder Casa Esperanza, Inc. treatment. 302 Eustis Street FirstStep: The FirstStep Street Outreach program offers Roxbury, MA 02119 life-saving alternatives to unsheltered homeless men Intake: 617-445-1123 and women who are affected by substance use www.casaesperanza.org/ disorder, mental illness and medical complications Services: Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual/bicultural associated with life on the streets. behavioral health facility that specializes in serving men Emergency Service Center: The Emergency Service and women with a history of substance abuse in Center (ESC) is one of three shelters in Massachusetts Massachusetts. that accept homeless people who are actively using Programs: alcohol and drugs. At the ESC clients receive medical • Men’s Program: four-to-six-month residential and mental health care, nutritional food, personal treatment program for men recovering from hygiene supplies, clean clothes, counseling, case alcohol and drug addiction. For more management, and employment, housing, and treatment information, visit referrals in an environment that is welcoming and safe. https://www.casaesperanza.org/wp- The ESC provides a 24-hour shelter, 365 days a year to content/uploads/2018/12/Mens-1-Pgr.pdf residents of Cambridge and Somerville. • Latinas y Niños Center: 6-12 month residential Residential Programs: Their residential programs are treatment program that focuses on the unique designed to help individuals maintain sobriety, while
115 Substance Use Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org developing skills they’ll need when they transition to persons in recovery from various types of the “real world.” addiction. Requirements & Restrictions: • Acute Treatment and Clinical Stabilization • For residents of Cambridge or Somerville. Services in Quincy (ATS/CSS) is a 64-bed • May be eligible if resident of Cambridge or healthcare facility that provides Acute Somerville before incarceration. Treatment Services (Detox) and Clinical • Services meant for people that struggle with Stabilization Services to adults struggling with substance use disorder addiction. alcohol and/or drugs, including heroin and prescription drugs. Waiting time: First come, first served basis Collaboration Programs Languages: English, Spanish • Access to Recovery (ATR) serves individuals in Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston the Boston area involved with the criminal See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations justice system and affected by substance use. Father Bill’s Place • William J. Ostiguy High School provides a safe, See in Category: Shelters sober and supportive school environment in Gavin Foundation which youth in recovery can develop skills and 70 Devine Way strengths needed for personal, academic, Boston, MA 02127 vocational and community success. Phone: 617-268-5000 Hope House www.gavinfoundation.org/ 8 Farnham Street Services: The Gavin Foundation operates more than a Boston, MA 02119 dozen adult and youth programs independently or in Phone (Addiction Services): 617-971-9360 collaboration with other agencies. See more Fax (Addiction Services): 617-971-9366 information below and on the website. Phone (Outpatient Services): 617-971-9370 Residential Programs Fax (Outpatient Services): 617-971-9366 • The Charlestown Recovery House, Gavin House [email protected]; hopehouseboston.org/ and Hamilton House are residential treatment Who to Contact: Front Desk programs for adult men seeking to recover from Services: Hope House’s mission is to provide effects of alcohol and drug abuse. individualized treatment to those living with a • The Cushing House provides stabilizing substance use disorder (SUD). Individuals will receive residential treatment for substance abusing education and support allowing them to pursue their young men and women age 16-20 who can life interests with families, employers, and be self- function in the community and who have family sufficient members of their communities. or guardians engaged in their care. Programs • The Graduate Centers provide longer term • Residential residential support in the recovery process. • Outpatient Community Programs Requirements & Restrictions: Varies by program. • Center for Recovery Services offers assessment and individual and group outpatient treatment Institute for Health and Recovery – Project Promise for individuals struggling with substance use, See in Category: Families abuse and addiction. Lamour Clinic Health Institute • Devine Recovery Center is a peer-to-peer See in Category: Physical and Mental Health community center for individuals in recovery, age 18 and up. The center’s mission is to Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) provide a place of support and recreation for Toll-free and Confidential Help Line: 1-855-491-4567 [email protected]; www.ma-atr.org/ 116 Substance Use Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Services: Access to Recovery (ATR) is a government- Boston, MA 02111 funded program in Massachusetts that gives adults in Fax: (617) 661-7277 early recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs) ATR Coordinator: Patricial Exilus (617) 645-7668 wider access to a full range of community services that can help them be successful in their recovery. ATR ATR Coordinator: Raymond Joyner (617) 999-9055 operates in four regions: Boston, Springfield/Holyoke, Client Services Coordinator: Stella Stewart (617) 849- Worcester, and New Bedford. ATR provides services to 6994 (New Intakes Only) help participants on the road to recovery. The 6-month For the South Boston Office, contact: program supports recovery with five types of services: Gavin Foundation 1. Individualized Recovery Coaching 70 Devine Way 2. Basic needs purchases (e.g. transportation South Boston, MA 02127 passes, clothing, hygiene products, government Fax: (857) 496-0266 ID cards/driver’s license, cell phones, gym membership, children’s items, etc.) ATR Coordinator: Stephen Steele (857) 496-7339 3. Career Building Initiative to help participants ATR Coordinator: Rebecca Reilly (857) 496-734 explore careers, become more employable, and ATR Coordinator: Kathy Curley (857) 496-7343 to find a job. ATR participants are able to enroll In New Bedford, contact: in job readiness programs and occupational Gavin Foundation training programs focused on CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information)-friendly jobs. 13 North 6th Street Participants can receive Work-Study Benefits New Bedford, MA 02740 (WSBs) of $10 per hour for every session hour Fax: (774) 328-9075 they attend during a training program. ATR Coordinator: Jenny Baker (508) 742-6640 4. Sober Home Service provides eligible ATR In Worcester, contact: participants with up to 5 months of rental Gavin Foundation assistance in a MASH Certified Sober Home, as well as individualized support through a 101 Pleasant Street, Suite #101 Recovery Coach to help the individual adjust to Worcester, MA 01609 this transitional living environment and work Fax: (508) 459-9112 towards self-sufficiency. ATR Coordinator: John Abbott (508) 459-9645 5. Care Coordination through an ATR Coordinator Requirements & Restrictions: PARTICIPANTS CANNOT to tie all the pieces together. REFER THEMSELVES. In order to be referred, individuals Service hours: Help Line: Mon. - Thur. 9am - 4pm must already be working with a treatment provider who (excluding holidays) is authorized to make ATR referrals. ATR only accepts Other Locations: referrals from authorized referral portals. Check with In Greater Springfield, contact: your provider to see if they’re authorized to make ATR referrals, or contact the BSAS Substance Use Helpline to IHR (Institute for Health & Recovery) discuss your options. 155 Maple Street, Suite 304 Springfield, MA 01105 Massachusetts Substance Use Helpline See in Category: Hotlines Fax: (413) 301-6173 ATR Coordinator: Jackie Segarra (617) 845-6403 Massachusetts Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department See in Category: Other Groups ATR Coordinator: Paul Alves (413) 237-0049 For the Downtown Boston Office, contact: Network of Care (Massachusetts) See in Category: Physical and Mental Health IHR (Institute for Health & Recovery) 105 Chauncy Street, Suite #602 New England Forensic Associates See in Category: Sex Offenders 117 Substance Use Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
New England Region of Narcotics Anonymous Requirements & Restrictions: All programs and services Phone: 1-866-NA-HELP-U (1-866-624-3578) are covered by certain Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tufts [email protected]; www.nerna.org/ Health Plan and other private insurance carriers. Please Services: This website and helpline contain information call for more information. about Narcotics Anonymous in Massachusetts and Spectrum Health Systems Rhode Island for those who wish to attain and maintain See in Category: Physical and Mental Health a drug-free lifestyle. NA meetings are held in person across the two states and online. They are arranged on Steppingstone Incorporated the website by day, time, location, and service area. In 522 N Main St. addition, they are displayed together by type: in person, Fall River, MA 02720 virtual, or hybrid. Please check the website or call the Phone: 508-674-2788 helpline for further information. www.steppingstoneinc.org/ Service hours: Hotline is 24/7; Meetings as listed on Services: Steppingstone Incorporated’s mission is to website strengthen quality of life among individuals and families of our community through providing comprehensive Languages: English, Spanish, & Vietnamese client-center programs and services that enhance well- On The Rise, Inc. being and promote independence. See in Category: Women Programs: Out For Good, Inc. Residential Rehabilitation See in Category: CORI • New Bedford Women’s Therapeutic Community Parole Regional Reentry Centers • Fall River Women’s Therapeutic Community See in Category: Other Groups • Fall River Men’s Recovery Home • Transition House Right Turn 440 Arsenal Street Outpatient Treatment Watertown, MA 02472 • Outpatient Clinic Phone: (781) 646 3800 • Gambling Treatment Program Phone (Intake): (781) 646-3800, ext 101 Housing for Homeless Fax: (833) 331-0784 • Next Step Home [email protected]; right-turn.net/ • Welcome Home Services: Right Turn provides a broad range of • evidence-based treatment programs for individuals, and Stone Residence • families recovering from substance use disorders and First Step Inn co-occurring disorders. • Home First • William B. Webster House Programs/Services • New Bedford Women’s Graduate Program • Partial Hospital Program (PHP) Peer Recovery Support • Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) • Peer2Peer • Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) • Recovery Coaching • Individual Outpatient Therapy Projects • Family Services • ROAR • Alumni Group • SOAR • Family Group – Family Matters • FAIHR • EdNA • Artists in Recovery Group Other Locations: Various locations based on program • Interventions Requirements & Restrictions: Admission Criteria varies by program (criteria is available on website) 118 Substance Use Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese Suffolk County Community Corrections Center (CCC) See in Category: Education Victory Programs Inc. See in Category: Housing
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Support Groups Services: Hotline for referrals to meetings throughout Massachusetts. Information about meetings is also 365Dad Inc. available on the website. See in Category: Families Service hours: 24/7 AIDS Action Committee Requirements & Restrictions: None See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Gavin Foundation Alcoholics Anonymous See in Category: Substance Use See in Category: Substance Use Greater Love Tabernacle, Inc. Bay State Community Services See in Category: Faith-Based Organizations See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Hope House Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) See in Category: Substance Use See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Bridge Over Troubled Waters See in Category: Physical and Mental Health See in Category: Other Groups Mothers for Justice and Equality Cambridge Sharing Circle See in Category: Women Phone: 617-642-1615 New England Forensic Associates [email protected]; See in Category: Sex Offenders fmcquaker.org/community/committees-and-groups/ Who to Contact: Patricia Wild New England Region of Narcotics Anonymous See in Category: Substance Use Services: Every Wednesday at 6:00 pm the formerly incarcerated and those who care about them meet for On with Living and Learning, Inc. (OWLL) dinner and sharing. For more information contact See in Category: Education [email protected] with subject “attn. Patricia Out For Good, Inc. Wild”. See in Category: CORI Service hours: W: 6pm – 9pm Parents Helping Parents of Massachusetts Languages: English 108 Water St. Casa Esperanza, Inc. Watertown, MA 02742 See in Category: Substance Use Phone: 617-926-5008 24/7 Hotline: 1-800-632-8188 Casa Myrna [email protected]; See in Category: Domestic Violence www.parentshelpingparents.org/ Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE) Services: See in Category: Domestic Violence Support Groups: Elizabeth Stone House • Due to the COVID-19 virus, all community See in Category: Physical and Mental Health support groups are suspended. The stress line is EMERGE (Batterer’s Intervention) available 24/7 at 1-800-632-8188 See in Category: Domestic Violence • Online virtual support groups are available • Before attending a group please contact Richie: Gamblers Anonymous [email protected] MA Hotline: 1-855-222-5542 [email protected]; Support Line: gamblersanonymous.org/ga/ • 1-800-632-8188 • 24/7 • All languages available
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Waiting time: Hotline: 2 minutes; Groups: none Languages: Translation services available for Parental Stress Line calls.
RESPOND, Inc.
See in Category: Domestic Violence
Roxbury Multi-Service Center See in Category: Families Roxbury Youthworks, Inc. See in Category: Families
Steppingstone Incorporated See in Category: Substance Use The Home for Little Wanderers See in Category: Families
The Network – La Red See in Category: LGBTQ+ The Women’s Center See in Category: Women
Tiffany Club of New England See in Category: LGBTQ+
United Way’s 211 Helpline See in Category: Hotlines
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Transportation Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation, Registry of Motor Vehicles Division (RMV) Massachusetts Access to Recovery (ATR) PO Box 55889 See in Category: Substance Use Boston, MA 02205 Phone (From area codes 339, 617, 781, and 857, or Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) from outside Massachusetts): 857-368-8000 10 Park Plaza Suite 5610 Phone (From all other Massachusetts area codes): 800- Boston, MA 02116 858-3926 Phone: 617-222-3200 TTY: 800-858-3926 Toll-free: 1-800-392-6100 www.massrmv.com TTY: 617-222-5146 Who to Contact: Customer Assistance Elevator/Escalator Hotline: 617-222-2828 Services: The Registry of Motor Vehicles provides www.mbta.com/ licenses or permits required to own or operate a vehicle Who to Contact: Customer Support Services in Massachusetts. Documentation required for many transactions are: Services: The MBTA operates the greater Boston public transportation system. The MBTA no longer uses 1. A valid Social Security card or a valid passport. tokens. The system now uses a plastic CharlieCard or 2. Three pieces of identification which will paper CharlieTicket. establish date of birth, proof of signature and Information on special rates for Seniors and Massachusetts residency. Disabled/Handicapped, higher fares which may apply to To replace a lost license or ID: Complete the longer distances, Commuter Rail passes or single rides, appropriate form obtained at the RMV office or from MBTA Boat tickets and passes, and the purchase of the web site. The replacement fee is $25. However, you annual passes can be obtained at many subway stations may be able to renew your license now if you are within or from the website. At locations where purchasing a one year of your expiration date. ticket is not possible, a commuter may be able to pay To renew a license: To renew your license, complete a on the bus or train; a surcharge may apply. Class D, M, or D/M License and ID Card Application. This For travel information, schedules, comments, or form is available at any RMV branch or you may complaints: download it from the Download Forms section of the • Visit the website: www.mbta.com RMV website. Bring the completed form, the $50 renewal fee, and required documentation to any RMV • Call toll free: 1-800-392-6100 (Deaf or Hard of full service office or license express. Hearing: TTY 617-222-5146) If your license expired less than 4 years ago, you will Schedules and maps can also be obtained at many have to pass the vision test and present the subway stations. documentation in (1) and, possibly, proof of For COVID-19 updates please click here: Massachusetts residency. https://www.mbta.com/covid19?utm_campaign=curate To obtain a new Massachusetts ID: If you are 21 or older dcontent&utm_content=Coronavirus+Updates&utm_m and do not hold a Massachusetts Driver’s license, you edium=banner&utm_source=homepage&utm_term=nu can obtain a Massachusetts Liquor ID. The fee is $25. If ll. you are at least 16 years old, but under 21, and do not Service hours: See website for T, bus, and commuter have a Massachusetts Driver’s license, you can obtain a rail hours Massachusetts ID. The fee is $25. You will have to Languages: Website information offered in: Arabic, present the documentation listed above in (1) and (2). Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Follow the instructions on the ‘Obtaining a Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese Massachusetts ID’ (http://www.massrmv.com/rmv/license/13bMAID.htm) webpage on the RMV website for specific instructions.
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The Registry of Motor Vehicles allows staff from Parole Re-entry Centers (RRC) to substantiate documentation required to obtain a Massachusetts ID for individuals who have served time in Massachusetts facilities and who are in the DOC/HOC databank. Parole re-entry staff will then take the returning citizen to the RMV office and work with the registry staff until an ID is approved. There is a $25 fee for the ID. The Quincy Parole Board’s Regional Re-entry Center can be contacted at 617-376-6260. The Center covers Brighton, Dorchester, Cambridge, Charlestown, Chelsea, East Boston, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Roxbury, West Roxbury, Brookline, North End, South End, Somerville, Everett, Revere, Winthrop, Malden, and Milton.
Call the RMV at 857-368-8000 (for those outside
Massachusetts or in area codes 339, 617, 781, or 857) or 800-858-3926 (for all other Massachusetts area codes not listed)
For RMV COVID-19 Information please visit the website. Service hours: M - F: 9am - 5pm Other Locations: Revere
9c Everett Street, Revere, MA
Open M – F: 8am – 5pm
Watertown, In the Watertown Mall 550 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA Open M – W and F: 9am – 5pm and Th: 10am – 6pm Roslindale
4210 Washington Street, Boston, MA
Open M – F: 9am – 5pm
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Veterans New England Center and Home for Veterans 17 Court Street Boston Project Rebound Reentry Services Boston, MA 02108 See in Category: Other Groups Phone (Services): 617-371-1800 Fax (Services): 617-371-1756 Boston Rescue Mission Phone (Case Management): 617-371-1824 See in Category: Other Groups [email protected]; nechv.org/ Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Services: Located in Downtown Boston and offering See in Category: Physical and Mental Health services throughout the region, NECHV supports Veterans with innovative services that enable success, HomeStart, Inc. See in Category: Housing meaningful employment, and dignified independent living. Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services Transitional Housing Programs: NECHV has various 600 Washington Street. 7th Floor Transitional Programs and models available to provide Boston, MA 02111 housing services to Veterans experiencing Phone: 617-210-5480 homelessness. A Veteran who resides in any of the Fax: 617-210-5755 Transitional Housing Programs has access to the same www.mass.gov/veterans/ services and support at NECHV (e.g.: case management, Who to Contact: Local Veterans’ Services Officer behavioral health care, housing search services, Services: The mission of the Department of Veterans’ employment assistance, medical care, etc.). All Services is to advocate on behalf of all the Veterans who reside in Transitional Housing at 17 Court Commonwealth’s veterans and provide them with Street work with a Case Manager and Housing Specialist quality support services and to direct an emergency with the goal of obtaining permanent housing or financial assistance program for those veterans and transitioning to another setting within 90 to 180 days. their dependents who are in need. Veterans also work toward increasing their income, Actions & Services: benefits and any other goals of their choosing. The • Chapter 115 Benefits/Safety Net Program: If Center’s Case Managers and Housing Specialists work as you are facing financial difficulties during the a Team alongside the Veteran to enable their success. current COVID 19 emergency, the MA All programs utilize Harm Reduction and Trauma Department of Veterans Services may be able Informed Models of Care. to provide you with financial assistance Transitional Housing Programs Include: • Veterans’ Cemeteries • Safe Haven • Statewide Advocacy for Veterans’ • Low Demand Empowerment (SAVE): The fundamental • WORTH (Working On Recovery from Triage to principle of the SAVE program is to advocate for Housing) veterans who are not able to obtain the • Clinical Treatment benefits they have earned due to institutional or personal barriers • Veteran 360 • Veterans’ Job Programs and Services • Women Veterans Support Program (Separate Female Transitional Housing) • Veterans’ Bonus Inquiry For more information regarding our Transitional • Economic Empowerment for Veterans Housing Program or to make a referral please see: • Military and Veteran RMV Information https://www.nechv.org/g https://www.nechv.org/get- • MVPvets help/housingfaq/et-help/covidintake/ • Civil Service for Veterans https://www.nechv.org/get-help/housingfaq/ Service hours: Monday-Friday, 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM Closed on state holidays 124 Veterans Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
Providers referring to NECHV’s Transitional Housing various veterans’ issues. Visit the website link for a Program, please use this form: Provider Referral Form complete listing of toll-free phone numbers. IRIS is also (https://form.jotform.com/200486336947160) a secure messaging system that can be used to message Community Based and Permanent Supportive Housing inquiries to the VA. Programs: NECHV offers a variety of community based V.A. Boston Healthcare System for Women Veterans and permanent supportive housing programs to assist 150 South Huntington Avenue Veterans in locating and maintaining permanent Boston, MA 02130 housing. Phone: 1-800-865-3384 Community Based and Permanent Supportive Housing Website: www.boston.va.gov Programs Include: Who to Contact: Women Veterans Program Manager • Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF): Services: These programs are part of the United States https://www.nechv.org/programs-and- Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Healthcare service/supportive-services-for-veteran- Administration. families-ssvf/ The Women Veterans Program provides a wide • Community Based Case Management spectrum of care to women Veterans, including primary care, gynecology, mammography, mental health care • Home Front (inpatient, residential, transitional, and outpatient), • Veterans Welcome Home services for those who have experienced intimate • Permanent Housing On-Site partner violence and/or sexual assault, surgical services, Employment and Training Program: With the goal of inpatient medical, spinal cord injury and nursing home assisting Veterans obtain and retain competitive level of care. To be referred to the nearest Women employment, the Employment and Training team helps Veterans Program Manager, call or text the Women Veterans develop the skills necessary to re-enter Veterans Call Center. workforce. Women Veterans Call Center and Chat: The WVCC staff The Team provides: is trained to provide women Veterans, their families, and caregivers about VA services and resources. The call • Employment Services: skills assessment, goal is free, and you can call as often as you like until you setting, job matching, follow along services, have the answers to your questions. The Call Center is resume writing assistance, transportation, available Mon. – Fri. 8am – 10pm ET, and on Saturdays interview preparation and vocational training. from 8am – 6:30pm ET. There is also a chat function Medical Care: available during the same hours. Contact: 1-855-VA- • Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Women (1-855-829-6636). Service hours: Services open 24/7, Office hours are M – Trust House: Trust (Transitional Residence Utilizing F: 9am – 5pm Support and Treatment) House is a therapeutic Requirements & Restrictions: Any person who has residential program that offers secure and affordable served in the U.S Military (active, Guard, Reserve), housing along with a communal atmosphere in a regardless of era, length or character of service, is a treatment-focused setting in Jamaica Plain. The Veteran, and is eligible for services and support from residence is home for seven women veterans and two the NECHV. house managers. Each resident participates fully in the daily operations of the house (including food shopping, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, IRIS cleaning, gardening, laundry, and cooking). The TRUST Phone, VA Benefits: 1-800-827-1000 House specializes in the treatment of women with PTSD 24/7 Crisis Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 (Press 1) as well as depression, substance abuse, anxiety, 24/7 Crisis Hotline (TTY): 1-800-799-4889 dissociation, and homelessness. Contact (For all mental iris.custhelp.com/ health and substance abuse services): 800-865-3384 Services: The Inquiry Routing & Information System x62556 or x 61778 (IRIS), maintained by the U.S. VA, contains a list of toll- Women’s Comprehensive Primary Care and free numbers for contacting the Department related to Gynecology: High quality and convenient health care for 125 Veterans Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org women veterans all throughout the greater Boston Other Locations: area. Services include: Edith Norse Rogers VA Medical Center – Women • Routine medical care Veterans Program • Breast health and mammography 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730 • Cholesterol and blood pressure screening Tel (781) 687-2000 Toll-Free 1-800-VETMED1 (800-838-6331) • Contraception and family planning Fax (781) 687-2101 • Gynecology services VA Central Western Massachusetts – Women Veterans • Medication management Program • Menopause management 421 North Main Street, Leeds, MA 01053-9764 • Osteoporosis treatment, including bone density 413-584-4040, Ext. 2288 studies Phone: (413) 584-4040 VA CWM HCS Call Center at 413-582-3027 • Primary care Behavioral Health Fax: (413) 582-3121 • Post-menopausal care Community Housing options for Women Veterans also • Women’s Pain Clinic include: • Social Work Services Soldier On: House on the Northampton VA campus in • Urinary incontinence management and Pelvic Leeds, MA that is especially for women veterans. The Floor PT program provides resident veterans with treatment and • Urgent Care recovery from drug and alcohol addictions along with medical services. • Whole Health Coaching Veterans Inc.: Two housing programs in Worcester that • Coordination of care including referral to: offer alcohol and drug-free environments coupled with specialty clinics, mammography, bone density, case management. ultrasound, menopause treatment 6 Sheridan Street, Worcester, MA 01610 Contact: To reach the Patient Call Center, dial 1-800- 508-791-3286 865-3384, available 24 hours per day. www.veteransinc.org Primary Care Hours: Mon.– Fri. 8am – 4pm with additional hours at select locations. Women’s Dorms at Chelsea Soldiers’ Home: The Chelsea Soldiers’ Home has a private and secure Women’s Trauma Recovery Team: The Women’s dormitory wing specifically for female veterans who can Trauma Recovery Team (WTRT) is an outpatient mental live in an independent setting and who require minimal health clinic that offers evidence-based, recovery- assistance with the activities of daily living. For eligibility oriented outpatient services for PTSD and other trauma- requirements and to apply, contact the Soldiers’ Home. related issues. Veterans served by WTRT represent diversity on all dimensions – race, ethnicity, country of Chelsea Soldiers’ Home origin, first language, age, ability, sexual orientation, 91 Crest Avenue, Chelsea, MA 02150 gender identity, gender expression – and strives to be a 617-884-5660 safe and inclusive program where the inherent rights www.mass.gov/che and dignity of all are valued, honored, and respected. Services include individual and group psychotherapies, Lt. Pamela D. Donovan Memorial Residence for Women: comprehensive diagnostic assessments, and psychiatry. A newly-renovated dormitory at the New England Contact: 857-364-4012. Center for Homeless Veterans. Renovated in 2007, the 16-bed dormitory has new floors, ceilings, tiling, If VA Boston Healthcare System is unable to provide a bathroom facilities, and television room. needed service, they will assist you to find the care you need elsewhere. New England Center for Homeless Veterans Service hours: Varies by program 17 Court Street, Boston, MA 02108 (617) 371-1800 126 Veterans Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org [email protected], www.nechv.org Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center- By Requirements & Restrictions: For female veterans, V.A. appointment only. Approximately every 6 weeks. 200 eligible. If unsure of V.A. eligibility, call for more Springs Road, Building 80, Bedford, MA. information. Chelsea Soldiers’ Home- Walk-in. Most alternating To speak to someone in our eligibility office, please call: Mondays, 10:30 a.m., 91 Crest Avenue, Chelsea, MA. • Brockton Campus: (774) 826-2515 or (774) 826- New England Center & Home for Veterans- Walk-in. 2513 Most Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. 17 Court Street (Government Center), Boston, MA. • Jamaica Plain Campus: (857) 364-5269 Norfolk County Veterans Treatment Court- For veterans • West Roxbury Campus: (857) 203-5463 or (857) participating in the Veterans Treatment Court only. 203-3167 Usually the first Tuesday of each month. 631 High All veterans are encouraged to enroll in the VA Health Street, Dedham, MA. Care System. Weather Cancellation Policy- Clinics are not held if https://www.boston.va.gov/patients/eligibility.asp Boston Public Schools are closed due to inclement Veterans Legal Services weather. P.O. Box 8457 WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law Boston, MA 02114 School Office Phone: 857-317-4474 See in Category: Legal Fax: 844-621-2797
veteranslegalservices.org/
Services: Veterans Legal Services is a non-profit organization offering free legal advice and representation to homeless and low-income veterans in the Boston area. Veterans Legal Services serves over 500 clients per year at legal clinics located in service centers. Legal issues handled are primarily in the following areas: Family Law/Domestic Relations, Landlord/Tenant, Public Housing, CORI/Criminal Records, Consumer Debt, Public Benefits, State and Federal Veterans’ Benefits. Veterans Legal Services does not handle the following: Labor, Dept. of Children & Families Cases, Fee Generating Matters, Criminal Law. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, their in-person clinics are temporarily suspended until further notice. Given this necessary change, they are conducting intakes over the phone. Veterans seeking assistance are encouraged to call their office during business hours for an initial eligibility screen and intake, if applicable.
Service hours: M - F 9am - 5pm
Other Locations: Services are available through the following legal clinics for low-income veterans only. Please call their office for eligibility screening and to check clinic dates and times.
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Women See in Category: Domestic Violence Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE) AIDS Action Committee See in Category: Domestic Violence See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Dress for Success Boston Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (BIDMC) See in Category: Clothing Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery (CVPR) See in Category: Domestic Violence Elizabeth Stone House See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Fenway Health See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Bristol Lodge Women’s Shelter See in Category: Shelters Institute for Health and Recovery – Project Promise See in Category: Families Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women (CCSW) La Alianza Hispana 51 Inman Street See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Cambridge, MA 02139 McGrath House Phone: 617-349-4697 See in Category: Housing Fax: 617-349-4766 [email protected] Mothers for Justice and Equality [email protected]; 2201 Washington Street www.cambridgewomenscommission.org/index.php 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02119 Services: As a department of the City of Cambridge, the Phone: 617-516-8086 Commission on the Status of Women (CCSW) works to Fax: 617-708-1026 promote equity for women and girls and advocates on [email protected]; their behalf with other City departments and officials, mothersforjusticeandequality.org/ local organizations, and state government to increase their opportunities through policy recommendations, Who to Contact: Jessica McCaffery - Health Equity and program development and public awareness in key Community Wellness Family Advocate, Vanessa Cordero issue areas identified by the Commission as significantly - Adult Education Program Manager/Workforce affecting women and girls. Readiness, or Genesis Bautista - Young Adult Education Program Manger The Cambridge Women’s Commission recognizes, supports, and advocates for all who self-identify as Services: MJE was founded by mothers who had lost women or with womanhood, including transgender, children to community violence. Their founders sought gender fluid, and non-binary persons. CCSW stands with to share their voice and vision to the fight against and for all women and girls regardless of immigration violence. status, sexuality, race, ethnicity, ability or religion. • All events are currently via Zoom COVID-19 update: Due to the pandemic, all city • You Matter: Personal Leadership Training, the buildings remain closed to the public without an core of MJE’s educational programming appointment. • Youth Peer Leadership program Service hours: • Workforce Readiness Initiative, provides Mon: 8:30am - 8:00pm coaching and mentoring (provided by past Tues-Thurs: 8:30am - 5:00pm participants) as well as job search assistance, Fri: 8:30am - 12:00pm resume and interview prep. Mothers are Casa Esperanza, Inc. expected to secure employment and/or See in Category: Substance Use continue education within 12 months of enrolling in the program. Much of their current Casa Myrna staff are past program participants and they 128 Women Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
have strong community relationships allowing [email protected]; them to place both adults and youth in jobs www.newbeginningsreentryservices.org/ outside of the agency. Services: New Beginnings Reentry Services, Inc. works in • Financial Literacy curriculum involves working partnership with community agencies to empower and with incarcerated individuals at the Suffolk provide supportive services to formerly incarcerated County House of Corrections to expand their women to successfully rejoin their communities. NBRS impact to address the needs of young adult addresses the critical issues of education, physical and incarcerated men coming back into the mental health, as well as personal development through community programs and services. • Health and Wellness workshops involve Languages: Spanish curriculum and activities surrounding trauma On The Rise, Inc. and resilience, healthy relationships, physical 341 Broadway and mental health, and healing through art.MJE Cambridge, MA 02139 partners with the Grove Hall Senior Center to Phone: 617-497-7968 provide Health and Wellness workshops. Fax: 617-492-9814 • MJE provides services through the [email protected]; www.ontherise.org Neighborhood Trauma Team. Services include Who to Contact: Community Advocate case management, neighborhood canvassing, Services: On The Rise provides a Safe Haven for and linking survivors of violence to a larger homeless women or women in crisis to access other network of trauma informed services. agencies to address many issues, including: • MJE has an Emergency Funds Program, which • Childhood and adult abuse and assault; helps to provide food, winter coats, gift cards, • Domestic violence; and rental assistance to people in need. MJE • Addiction; also helps to provide their members with • Housing; computers. • Address for receiving mail; • MJE has access to Spanish-speaking translators • Medical care; • MJE is leading parenting trainings for parents of • Mental health care; youth attending Boston Public Schools. • Legal and criminal issues; • MJE responds to emerging needs by designing • Education and training. specific modules for unique populations, such The Safe Haven is a safe place where women may go to as a new Homeless Teen Mothers and Fathers attend to personal needs which may have been program in partnership with area shelter neglected during years of homelessness. These include services. a shower, meals, clothing, and some privacy for a nap. • Empowerment breakfasts, Corner Café Voter Safe Haven will provide connections to other resources Engagement, an annual Mothers of Courage as well. Award Ceremony. These events are currently Community advocates will accompany women to held virtually, due to COVID19. appointments in the community to provide support and MJE provides services at their main location in Roxbury assistance in navigating services. and also within the Suffolk County House of On The Rise also sponsors other activities: cultural Corrections, in area affordable housing complexes, and outings, weekly creative groups such as painting and at partner sites within their communities. writing, and activities like massage. Waiting time: None Service hours: At 341 Broadway: Monday-Friday 9am- Languages: English 1pm, closed Saturdays New Beginnings Re-Entry Services (NBRS) At First Parish: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9am-1pm Phone: 857-237-2780 Other Locations: First Parish Church 129 Women Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
1446 Massachusetts Ave o 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. (40 guests Cambridge, Ma 02138 maximum) Requirements & Restrictions: Safe Haven is not a drop- Emergency Services in program. Please call 617-497-7968 if interested in • Essential services: Women living on the street scheduling an intake. For homeless women or women in know that they can count on Rosie’s place for a crisis only. There is no formal referral process. place to launder their clothes, take a shower, Languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole store their belongings in a locker or rest in our Sitting Room, all free of charge. They also On with Living and Learning, Inc. (OWLL) provide guests with lifelines like a mailing See in Category: Education address and use of computers and phones Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts • Overnight shelter: Rosie’s Place Overnight See in Category: Physical and Mental Health Program provides emergency shelter to 20 Rosie’s Place women for up to 21 days at a time 889 Harrison Avenue o Lottery (when beds are available) Boston, MA 02118 o Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. Phone: 617-442-9322 Saturday, Sunday, Holidays: 10:00 a.m. Fax: 617-442-7825 o [email protected]; www.rosiesplace.org/ • Health and Wellness Who to Contact: Front Desk o The Wellness Center at Rosie’s Place Services: The mission of Rosie’s Place is to provide a provides an opportunity for women to safe and nurturing environment for poor and homeless receive sound health and medical women to maintain their dignity, seek opportunity, and assistance under their roof find security in their lives. o Hours available here: http://www.rosiesplace.org/how_we_h Directory of Programs and Services: elp/emergency_services/health_and_w http://www.rosiesplace.org/site/assets/docs/Winter_F ellness. Y20.pdf Service hours: Hours vary by program Food Programs Requirements & Restrictions: Women and anyone who • Dining Room: self-identifies as a woman. Target population: homeless Monday-Friday and low-income women o Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:15 a.m. Waiting time: Varies o Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (lunch Languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, served 12:00 – 12:30 p.m.) Cape Verdean Creole, and Chinese. Language Line available for other languages. o Dinner: 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. (dinner served 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.) St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children Saturday and Sunday 90 Cushing Avenue Dorchester, MA 02125 o Brunch: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (brunch served 11:00 – 11:30 a.m.) General Information: 617-436-8600 Donations (Phone): 617-436-8600 ext. 493 Dinner: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. (dinner served o Donations (Fax): 617-288-8961 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.) [email protected]; stmaryscenterma.org/ • Food Pantry Services: St. Mary’s Center offers a wide variety of Tuesday – Friday programs for women and children. St. Mary’s serves as a safety net for vulnerable families and children– o 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (80 guests maximum) providing a haven and home as well as life-changing Monday-Friday programs and services. Programs 130 Women Coming Home Directory, 2021 Edition – www.cominghomedirectory.org
• Crossroads Family Center provides families with library, and more. They offer an extensive information, shelter and support as they transition from resources, and referral system, as well as provide crisis homelessness to independent living in the intervention and peer support counseling for women in community crisis though a Helpline and in-person at the Center. The • Margaret’s House prepares women and their population using the center is very diverse, and includes families to move from transitional housing to many experiencing homelessness, women of color, affordable permanent housing by offering skills trauma survivors, of different ages and backgrounds. to overcome obstacles, manage finances, and Participant’s confidentiality is respected and they are pursue education and employment not subjected to intake questioning. • Massachusetts Maternity First Home is a Currently drop-in hours are restricted and takes place at transitional, supportive housing program that the front door and in the backyard. Offerings include: provides 12 formerly homeless families with the take out food and other material goods, laptop use with tools, developmental experience and learning internet access and printing, resource referrals, opportunities that enable families to find emotional support, and connection to a caring and success and secure permanent housing supportive community. Check the website for the specific hours. • St. Mary’s Home provides pregnant and parenting teens with skills to improve the Service hours: Pre-COVID: M - F: 10am - 8pm; Sat 10am emotional, educational and economic well- - 3pm. Check website for current hours being of themselves and their children Requirements & Restrictions: The Center is for women, and those who identify as women, and children (boys • Women’s Learning Center provides women with up to 14 years accompanied by mother or caretaker). classroom instruction and tutoring so they can earn their high school credentials and plan for Languages: English; volunteers speak other languages future educational and career goals as well, and they have a Spanish/English language exchange and an ESL class. • Women@Work Plus offers women course curriculum, including college credit courses, and The Home for Little Wanderers a real job See in Category: Families For COVID-19 Updates visit: The Women’s Center stmaryscenterma.org/covid-19-update/ 405 County Street Steppingstone Incorporated New Bedford, MA 02740 See in Category: Substance Abuse Phone: 508-996-3343 Fax: 508-999-7139 The Cambridge Women’s Center [email protected]; 46 Pleasant Street www.thewomenscentersc.com/ Cambridge, MA 02139 Services: The Women’s Center offers comprehensive Office: 617-354-6394 FREE and confidential services to ALL (men and children Helpline: 617-354-8807 included) survivors and victims of domestic violence, [email protected]; sexual assault, and child trauma. They provide www.cambridgewomenscenter.org/ counseling, education, outreach, referrals and Services: The Women’s Center offers extensive FREE resources. services to women. They provide direct services in a Other Locations: number of areas and will help point women to other local programs if needed. They have a wide array of Fall River Office: support groups, classes, and workshops, and two 209 Bedford Street computer labs in a large comfortable house. Pre-COVID Fall River, MA 02720 women and their children could come in 10am-8pm Phone: 508-672-1222 weekdays and 10am-3pm Saturdays. They could use a phone, the kitchen, which includes food donations, a TTY: 508-996-1777
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24-Hour Hotline: 508-999-6636 pantry boxes to their elderly and shut-in guests. To read Languages: Spanish, Portuguese their latest updates regarding COVID-19, click here. Service hours: Mon-Sat 8:00AM-1:00PM V.A. Boston Healthcare System for Women Veterans See in Category: Veterans Requirements & Restrictions: Anyone that identifies as a woman is welcome and their children (though services Women’s Lunch Place are for adult women only). 67 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Women’s Prison and Re-Entry Project Phone: 617-267-1722 See in Category: Legal [email protected]; womenslunchplace.org/ Women’s Transition Program, SMOC Services: Women’s Lunch Place (WLP) opened its doors 7 Bishop Street in November of 1982 to serve women a hot lunch in a 2nd Floor safe welcoming place. They have grown from serving Framingham, MA 01702 lunch three times a week into a vibrant and supportive Phone (Opportunity Center): 508-620-2690 day community that is open six days a week. They serve www.smoc.org/women-transition-program.php healthy breakfasts and lunches, and they also provide Who to Contact: The Opportunity Center basic necessities and services that help restore dignity Services: Located in the Opportunity Center, the and hope. Framingham Women’s Transition Program offers a safe Medical care is provided free. Advocates and support and supportive environment where female returning staff assist women in crisis, struggling with domestic citizens can get the support they need to make a violence, addiction, mental illness, or the stress of being successful transition to life in the community. Program homeless. Women interested in pursuing employment, participants are assigned a case manager who will assist housing, and other opportunities use their resource them in developing an Individual Service Plan (ISP) center and library, which provides access to computers designed to meet their personal goals. For more and phones, free Wi-Fi, the Internet, and office supplies. information call the Opportunity Center at 508-620- The Creative Expression Program offers classes in 2690. painting and drawing, photography, sewing and Requirements & Restrictions: To be eligible for knitting, and writing. Additional classes are offered in services, an individual must meet one of the following yoga, meditation, and wellness to provide women the criteria: chance to heal and respite from the stressors of poverty and loneliness. 1. Recently released from a Massachusetts Correctional facility (within the past 6 months) Services provided: 2. Currently incarcerated at a Massachusetts • Direct care Correctional facility (will be released within the • Healthy meals next 6 months) • Health and wellness 3. Currently on Probation or Parole • Advocacy YW Boston • Resource Center & Library See in Category: Education • Creative Expressions COVID-19 has forced them to shift their meals to takeout. They are busily providing all their program core service areas–healthy meals, direct care, and advocacy as outreach. Toiletries, undergarments, feminine hygiene products, and other basic necessities are always available. Their advocates are providing housing + stabilization services and delivering mobile food
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Acknowledgements
This initiative and the information included in the Directory and on the website would not have been possible without the dedication and vision of the Prisoner Reentry Working Group (PRWG), and the financial support and insight of the Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation.
The PRWG was established in 2000 out of concern for those leaving prison and facing the formidable challenge of trying to create new lives for themselves in Greater Boston. PRWG developed the project that became the Coming Home Reentry Resource Directory. Over the next several years this group continued to collect, edit, and manage the information in the Directory to ensure that it was accurate and accessible to those in need. The efforts of PRWG have assisted countless returning citizens, their families, and those working with them in the corrections system and in the community to improve reentry success for previously incarcerated individuals.
The Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation continues to be a strong supporter of this project and maintains its commitment to vital services and policy development to assist marginalized populations and their advocates despite adverse environments.
The editors would also like to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of the following people:
Melinda Czaja’s leadership as project manager and years of expertise working on the Directory were of invaluable help to the Directory team. Melinda kept the team organized and on track to ensure the Directory continues to benefit the Boston community.
Karina Zeferino became an integral part of the Directory work for this 2021 edition. Karina worked tirelessly to contact and update over 250 agency descriptions and every day was thinking of ways to improve the Directory. Karina, you went above and beyond for the Directory and we could not have done it without you!
Christian Schiavone offered outstanding website support with patience and humor. The Directory team is extremely grateful for his assistance in overcoming new challenges.
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