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Updated March 31, 2015
Affiliated Parent and Youth Support Groups
For more information, contact the Group Leader(s) directly.
The days, times and locations are subject to change. Please confirm the details with the Group Leader(s).
Parent/Professional Advocacy League (PPAL)
45 Bromfield Street, 10th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
617-542-7860 x204
[email protected]
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Boston Area
Town
Group
Location
Day and Time
Parent Support
Bay Cove Human
Thursdays : 12pm1:30pm; Spanish
speaking 1st & 3rd
Friday of Month: 12-1
pm
Mondays :
Group Leader Contact Information
Other
Details
Boston
Canton
Chelsea
Groups in
English and
Spanish
Street
Weekly Support Canton Public Library
Art & Activity Room
786 Washington
Groups
Street
Parent Support Boys and Girls Club
Dorchester
Group
NAMI Family
Dorchester
Support Group
Parent Support
Dorchester
Dorchester
Services 66 Canal
Transitional Age
Youth Parent
Support
Transitional Age
Margaret Nixon
617-371-3125
Sharon Castro
Dorchester Ave.
Support
Parent Support
Dorchester
Westwood Library
Weekly Group
Weymouth
660 High Street
Tufts Library Jones
Room 46 Broad
Street
in
if
Sharon Castro 617-371-3052
[email protected]
6:30 – 8:30pm
3rd Thursday :
Sharon Castro
617-983-5803
617-371-3052
[email protected]
857-342-2796 or Mark Zanger
[email protected]
617-522-7439
[email protected]
617-371-3125
[email protected]
617-371-3125
[email protected]
6 - 8:00pm
Tuesday :
Betty Wagner
[email protected]
10 - 11:30 am
Fridays :
Betty Wagner
617-983-5803
[email protected]
Please call in
advance if
attending
CAH Conf. Room
2211A on 2nd fl.
Please call in
advance if
attending
Please call in
advance if
attending
CAH Conf. Room
2211A on 2nd fl.
Conference Room
Westwood
Please
call
advance
attending
Betty Wagner
30 Willow Street
6 - 7:30 pm
Carney Hospital 2100 2nd Thursday:
6 - Monica Pomare or
Dorchester Ave.
Dorchester
7:30pm
Mark Zanger
Bay Cove Early
Margaret Nixon
2nd Wednesday :
Intervention 105
6 - 7:30pm
Victory Road
Bay Cove Early
Margaret Nixon
4th Wednesday :
Intervention 105
6 - 7:30pm
Victory Road
Carney Hospital 2100 1st & 3rd Wednesday :
Rosa Nunez
Youth Parent
[email protected]
10am - 12 Noon
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617-983-5803
Southeast Area
Town
Group
Location
Day and Time
Parent Support
Call for Location
Support Group
Call for Location
Parent Support
Call for Location
Parent Support
Call for Location
Cape Cod
Coffee Group
Sagamore
Bridge
Fairhaven
Coffee Group
Parent Support
Call for Location
2nd and 4th
Wednesdays :
6 - 8 pm
1st Wednesday :
6:30 - 8:30 pm
1st Friday:
10 - 11:30 am
1st Tuesday :
10 - 11:30 am
Last Tuesday:
Parent Support
Call for Location
Parents of
Transition Age
Youth (14-25)
Group
Parent Support
Call for Location
Parent Support
Call for Location
Mansfield
Coffee Group
Fathers Group
Call for Location
Parents of
Call for Location
Group Leader Contact Information
Other
Details
Brockton
Cape Cod
(Falmouth)
Cape Cod
(Hyannis)
Cape Cod
(Orleans)
Cape Cod
(Sagamore
Bridge)
Fairhaven
Call for Location
Call for Location
Fall River
Hanover
Hyannis
Call for Location
Kingston
Kingston
Mansfield
Call for Location
Middleboro
10 - 11:30 am
3rd Wednesday :
9 - 10:30 am
1st & 3rd Thursday:
6 - 8 pm
2nd Wednesday :
6 - 8 pm
3rd Wednesday:
3:30-5pm
Morning Group 3rd
Thursday:
10:30 am- 12:30 pm
Evening Group 4th
Thursday: 6 - 8 pm
2nd Wednesday:
9:30 - 11 am
2nd Saturday :
5 - 7 pm
3rd Wednesday :
Tabitha West
Kim Eldridge
Kim Eldridge
Kim Eldridge
Kim Eldridge
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 214
[email protected]
947-8779 x 229
[email protected]
947-8779 x 229
[email protected]
947-8779 x 229
[email protected]
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
508- Please Call for
Info. and Location
508- Please Call for
Info. and Location
508- Please Call for
508-
Tresa Salters
947-8779 x 229
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 221
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 221
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 216
[email protected]
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Heather Connor
508-947-8779 x 222
[email protected]
Info. and Location
Please Call for
508-947-8779 x 216
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 216
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 214
[email protected]
781-626-2209
[email protected]
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
508-947-8779 x 222
Info. and Location
Amy McDevitt
Courtney Monte
Heather Connor
Heather Connor
Lindsay Chretien
Chris Bean
Tresa Salters
Transitional Age
Middleboro
Youth (14 - 25)
6:30 - 8:30 pm
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Middleboro
Parents of
Transitional Age
Youth-High
School Group
Parent Support
Call for Location
Parent Support
Call for Location
Parent Support
Call for Location
Wareham
Coffee Group
Call for Location
Call for Location
Middleboro
New Bedford
Norton
Wareham
Northeast Area
Town
Group
Location
4th Wednesday :
10:00 - 11:30 am
1st Wednesday :
6 - 7:30 pm
Evening Group 4th
Thursday : 5 - 7 pm
3rd Wednesday:
6 - 7:30 pm
2nd & 4th Thursday :
9:30 - 11 am
Day and Time
Tresa Salters
TBA
Amy McDevitt
Lindsay Chretien
Amy McDevitt
[email protected]
Please Call for
508-947-8779 x 222
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 214
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 221
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 214
[email protected]
508-947-8779 x 221
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Please Call for
Info. and Location
Group Leader Contact Information
Other
Details
Parent Support
Beverly
advance if
Barbara Peters
978-
Night
60 Merrimack Street
Family Support LHBS (formerly NBH)
6 - 8 pm
1st & 3rd Tuesday :
Barbara Peters
373-1126 ext. 5310
[email protected]
978-
Register
60 Merrimack Street
MSPCC 439 Union
6 - 8 pm
2nd & 4th Monday :
Damaris Santiago
Street
Transitional Age Children's Friend and
11 am-1 pm
1st and 3rd Tuesday
Carol Bisgrove
Youth Parent
Lowell
Please call in
attending
Register
Parent Support
Lawrence
[email protected]
978-283-0296 ext. 732
[email protected]
Haverhill
Lawrence
Krissie Burnham
4th Tuesday :
9:30-11am
3rd Thursday :
Family Fun
Haverhill
North shore
Educational
Consortium, Family
Center, 3rd Floor 112
Sohier Road
LHBS (formerly NBH)
Support
Parent Support
373-1126 ext. 5310
[email protected]
681-9581
[email protected]
978-
Light
Refreshments
Served
Family 15 Union St.,
Ste. 557 Lawrence,
MA 01840
Community
Teamwork 126
Phoenix Ave.
Mondays :
5:30 -
7 pm
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Anne
978-256-1239
Childcare available
Parent Support
Call for Location
Parent Support
Call for Location
Parents of
Transitional Age
Youth
Parent Support
Call for Location
Lowell
Lowell
Lowell
Lynn
Parent Support
Malden
Parent Support
Lynn YMCA 20
Neptune Blvd
Malden YMCA 99
Dartmouth St.
Malden
Salem YMCA One
2nd & 4th Tuesday :
6 - 7:45 pm
1st & 3rd Tuesday:
10 - 11:30 am
1st Monday:
6 - 7:45 pm
Every Friday :
6 - 8 pm
2nd & 4th Thursday
10:00am-12:00pm
2nd Friday :
Nancy Collier
Nancy Collier
Nancy Collier
Dalene Basden
Martha Cregan
Krissie Burnham
[email protected]
Food is Provided
978-935-5811
[email protected]
978-935-5811
[email protected]
Limited Child Care
978-935-5811
[email protected]
781-775-0708
[email protected]
Call First to
schedule intake
RSVP for childcare
978-766-2600
[email protected]
Supper, swimming,
978-283-0296
Salem
Parent Support
Wakefield
Sewall Street
Horizon House 78
Water Street
Wakefield, MA
01880
6 - 8:30 pm
1st and 3rd Tuesday 6:30-
Martha Cregan
8:30pm
Food is Provided
ext.
732
Reservations required
[email protected]
and child care
provided
978-766-2600
Metro Suburban Area
Town
Group
Location
Day and Time
Group Leader Contact Information
Other
Details
Parent Support
Framingham
Sibling Club 6 12yrs old (for
siblings of a
mental health
Framingham
child)
Parent Support
Group (parents
of transition Age
Framingham
Youth)
Wayside Youth &
Family Support
Network 88 Lincoln
Street
Wayside Youth &
1st & 3rd Monday : 10 11:30 am
3rd
Wednesda y:
78:30 pm
Runs in Fall/Spring
Ann Killion
[email protected]
Ann Killion
508-620-0010 x 194
[email protected]
Pre- Registration
Family Support
required &
Network 88 Lincoln
information
Street
Wayside Youth &
Family Support
Network 88 Lincoln
Street
3rd Wednesday of each
month:
Ann Killion
508-620-0010 x 194
[email protected]
78:30pm
508-620-0010 x 194
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through Ann Killion
Wayside Youth
118 Central Street
Waltham
1st and 3rd Mondays
10:30-12:00pm +
Wednesdays 6:007:15pm
Location
Day and Time
& Family
Waltham
Support Network
Kelly Daron
[email protected]
g 781-891-0555 x58
Central Area
Town
Group
Group Leader Contact Information
Other
Details
Family Support
Gardner
Focus on
Transition Aged
Sterling
Youth
Focus on
Transition Aged
Worcester
Youth
Parent Support
Worcester
You Inc. Family
Support Center 205
School Street
InSync
Communication
Center One Beverly
Drive (rte 12)
Sterling, MA 01564
Parent Professional
Advocacy League
(PPAL) 51 Union
Street Suite 308
Parent Professional
Advocacy League
(PPAL) 51 Union
Street Suite 308
Every Thursday :
10 - 11:30 am &
6:30 - 8 pm
1st and 3rd Wednesday
Ann Berube
[email protected]
Anne Hurst
978-630-4918 ext. 32
[email protected]
(starting January 2015)
1st and 3rd Thursday
Rick Benoit
[email protected]
2nd and 4th Thursday :
Beth Pond
[email protected]
Location
Day and Time
5:30-7:30pm
508-767-9725 x 203
Western Area
Town
Group
Agawam
Agawam
Group Leader Contact Information
Other
Details
Support Group
Amherst
Amherst
Support Group
Agawam Public
1st Tuesday
11:30amJan Lamberg
[email protected]
Library, 750 Cooper
12:45pm
413-536-2401 ext. 3002
Street
Bangs Community
Margery Jess Reid [email protected]
3rd Monday
Center Boltwood
of the month:
Walk
6:30 - 8:30 pm
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413-536-2401 x 3005
Upcoming dates
are Sept. 15, Oct.
20, Nov. 17.
Contact for future
dates.
Parent Support
474 Main Street
Greenfield
Transitional Age
Greenfield
Support Group
Parent Support
Springfield
Ware Support
13 Prospect Street
11 Wilbraham Road
(Next to Mason
Square
Neighborhood
Health)
Hillside Village Apts.
3rd Tuesday :
6:30 - 8:30 pm
2nd Wednesday :
6 - 8 pm
3rd Friday :
12:30 - 1:45pm
1st Wednesdays:
Gretchen Emond
Gretchen Emond
[email protected]
774-1000 ext. 2080
[email protected]
Jan Lamberg
774-1000 ext. 2080
[email protected]
413- Call for Childcare
413-
413-536-2401 ext. 3002
Margery Jess Reid [email protected]
Upcoming dates
are Aug. 27, Sept.
17, Oct. 1, Oct. 29,
Nov. 19, Dec. 3.
Contact for future
dates.
Community Room 17
Ware
Westfield
Group
Lunchtime
Convent Hill Rd.
Carson Center
Conference Room 77
Support Group
Mill Street
11:30 - 1 pm
2nd Monday:
12:30 - 1:30 pm
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Jan Lamberg
413-536-2401 x 3005
[email protected]
413-536-2401 ext. 3002
800-844-2401 ext. 3002
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