Helplines
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Behavioral Health Help Line
Connects individuals to local and available resources for mental health (including substance use). Learn more on their website
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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Offers free and confidential emotional support via text and chat by a crisis counselor. Learn more on their website.
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Veterans Crisis Line
24/7, confidential crisis support for Veterans, service members, National Guard, Reserve members, and their loved ones. You do not need to be enrolled in VA benefits or healthcare to connect. Call 988 then press 1, text 838255, or click here for their website.
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SAMHSA
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The Trevor Project
The leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention non-profit organization for LGBTQ+ young people. They provide information & support 24/7, year round. Call 1-866-488-7386, text 678-678 or click here for their website.
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LGBT National Help Center
Free and confidential peer-support, information and local resources. Learn more on their website here.
Mental Health
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The MA Department of Mental Health
DMH assures and provides access to services and supports to meet the mental health needs of individuals of all ages; enabling them to live, work and participate in their communities.
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Vinfen
Vinfen is a provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries and, behavioral health challenges. Their services and advocacy promote recovery, resiliency, habilitation and self-determination of the people they serve.
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National Alliance on Mental Illness
The nation’s leading voice on mental health. With over 600 local affiliates who work in the community to raise awareness and provide support and education to those in need.
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Aspire Health Alliance
Formerly South Shore Health, Aspire provides integrative care for mental health, substance use, crisis intervention and community support in the Braintree and Quincy area.
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Advocates
Advocates provides counseling, psychiatry and, crisis services focused on empowering people in mental health recovery to live healthy and fulfilling lives of their own design.
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Bay State Community Services
”BSCS” offers a comprehensive continuum of care to meet the need of all members of our communities. Services include Child & Family, outpatient and integrated care, peer recovery, and more. BSCS provides services in the Greater South Shore with sites in Boston, Braintree, Hingham, Norwood, Plymouth, Quincy, Weymouth, Walpole and Woburn.
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Riverside Community Care
Riverside offers a range of programs and services for children, adults and communities in MA.
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Child and Family Services
CFS is the largest and most comprehensive social service provider in Southeastern MA. Services include the Community Behavioral Health Center “CBHC” for mental health and substance use treatment, outpatient mental health care, and more.
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High Point
Serving the Brockton area, High Point provides crisis services and community crisis stabilization, adult community crisis stabilization (ACCS), outpatient mental health counseling and, more.
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Bay Cove Human Services
Bay Cove provides services to more than 25,000 individuals and families who face the challenges of developmental and intellectual disabilities, mental illness, substance use and more.
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Justice Resource Institute
Behavioral health clinics, trauma services, community services, developing abilities services and more.