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- EIN 04-2105856
- (508) 753-5425
- 81 Hope Ave Worcester MA 01603-2212 USA
- www.childrensfriend.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Family Services for Adolescent Parents, Human Services, Mental Health, Mental Health Treatment
Mission: To improve the lives of children and those who love them.
Programs: Child and family counseling - the agency provides a full range of quality behavioral health, psychiatric and child welfare services to at-risk children with severe emotional and behavioral problems, particularly those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, attachment difficulties, obsessive compulsive disorders as well as autism and many other serious emotional and behavioral problems.
school age mothers(sam) (a partnership with the worcester public schools)-the agency provides a full-range of behavioral health, health education, parent instruction, day care and social services to an at-risk population of pregnant and parenting teens and their children (the school department provides the academic education).
adoption and family services - the agency is a licensed adoption and foster care agency that manages cases and provides other adoption related services, including mapp training. Adoption and family services department social workers also conduct home studies and assessments and perform related services under contract with the commonwealth of massachusetts department of children and families.
carriage house - the agency provides peer grief support groups to children ages three to eighteen who have experienced the death of a parent, other principal caregiver, or sibling. Grief support is also available for surviving parents or caregivers. Participation in the carriage house is free. The program director and agency president also consult with school systems on grief related matters.