Pathways Online Resource Directory
Mental
Health
The
following are recommended resources including information on
counseling centers, the Massachusetts’ Children’s Behavioral
Health Initiative and substance abuse treatment options..
Counseling Centers
Bay State Community Services - The purpose of Bay
State Community Services is to improve the social
functioning of adults, adolescents and children within a
framework that recognizes the primary importance of family
and community. Most programs offer help based on need,
regardless of ability to pay.
Bayview Associates
- Bayview Associates is the child and adolescent wing
of South Shore Mental Health. This program offers assessment
and counseling to individuals, couples, children, and
families. Our multi-disciplinary team of social workers,
counselors, nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists
specialize in treating anxiety, depression, marital
problems, trauma, grieving, and other difficulties that
interfere with everyday life and work.
Family Services of Greater Boston
- Mental health and substance abuse counseling and
certified Home Health Agency. Payment assistance available
if eligible. Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance
accepted.
South Bay Mental Health
- South Bay Mental Health has over 20 programs and
our team consists of over 500 dedicated professionals. South
Bay's clear mission, innovation and strong commitment to
service have made the organization readily recognizable
throughout Massachusetts.
South Shore Mental Health
- SSMH provides a wide array of counseling and
evaluation services to adults, children and their families.
Services are offered at a variety of locations throughout
the South Shore, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Cape Cod.
We are in schools, homes, offices, hospitals, and other
settings working to build a healthy and positive
environment.
South Shore Coalition of Independent
Therapists -
SSCIT is a well established, unique community of
psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatric medical
providers on the South Shore of Massachusetts. Out of this
community, we have created an annual directory of members as
a reference for the professional world. This directory has
been used by our members and the professional community at
large to quickly access each member's updated contact
information, office location(s), description of therapeutic
interests and styles as well as medical insurance
affiliations.
School Psychiatry.org
- This site will help you meet the needs of young
people with depression, bipolar disorder, attention deficit
/ hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and
anxiety disorders, including panic disorder and
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Children's Behavioral Health
Initiative - In
response to the federal law suit, Rosie D. v. Romney, the
Executive Office of Health and Human Services has launched
an initiative to expand and improve the delivery and
coordination of mental health services for children and
adolescents who are in Medicaid or who are
Medicaid-eligible. Explore a
PDF flow chart showing
services available on the South Shore of Massachusetts.
Substance Abuse Treatment
Bayview Associates Evaluation and
Counseling -
Substance abuse evaluations, individual and group
counseling, day treatment and mental health services,
substance abuse prevention and intervention programs and
residential services. Most types of health insurance
accepted except HMO's. Sliding fee scale and grants from the
Department of Public Health, if eligible. Intake/ Hotline:
(800) 675-8108
Al-Anon/Alateen/Pre-Alateen Family
Groups - a fellowship of relatives and friends of
alcoholics who share their experience, strength and hope, in
order to solve their common problems.
Manet Community Health Center
-
serves the broad health needs of South Shore residents
through a family practice model of care. A multi-site
community based health center, Manet works to ensure
that its patients have access to all levels of the
health care system. Manet is especially
committed to providing services for the medically
underserved
Massachusetts Department of Public
Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services
- oversees the substance abuse and gambling
prevention and treatment services in the Commonwealth.
Responsibilities include: licensing programs and
counselors; funding and monitoring prevention and
treatment services; providing access to treatment for
the indigent and uninsured; developing and implementing
policies and programs; and tracking substance abuse
trends in the state.
National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Referral
- this website provides an online list of drug and
alcohol treatment programs provided by the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration
Andrew House Detoxification Center/Bay Cove Human Services
- Substance abuse treatment facility. Detoxification
and methadone/ LAAM treatment. MassHealth or no insurance.
Department of Public Health assistance available for payment
if eligible.
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
- Relapse and prevention counseling groups, and
substance abuse treatment. Private insurance and Medicare
with a secondary form of insurance accepted. No MassHealth.
Quitting Time Addictions Program
- South Shore Mental Health Center; Intensive outpatient
substance abuse treatment program; dually-diagnosed
individuals are accepted. Accepts most commercial insurances
and provides self-pay program if eligible.
South Bay Mental Health Center
- Outpatient mental health clinic for children and their
families. Outpatient substance abuse treatment program.
Individual, family, and group counseling available.
Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance accepted.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- MADD is an organization looking for effective solutions to
the drunk driving and underage drinking problems, while
supporting those who have already experienced the pain of
these senseless crimes.
Students Against Drunk Driving
(SADD) -
provides students
with the best prevention tools possible to deal with the
issues of underage drinking, other drug use, impaired
driving and other destructive decisions.
