Mental Health Resources

EMERGENCY SERVICE PROGRAMS (ESPs) are community-based agencies who provide 24/7 information, support and mobile crisis services to help individuals (or their families/friends) who are having a mental health or substance abuse crisis.  

ESP for Boston: BEST Team 800-981-4357

ESP for Dover: Riverside Community Care 800-529-5077

ESP for Sherborn: Advocates Psychiatric Emergency Service 800-640-5432

Call the Parent/Guardian of the student you are concerned about

Call your local police station - NON Emergency Number

• If it is an emergency, please call 911 FIRST

• Boston non-emergency 617-343-4500

• Sherborn non-emergency: 508-653-2424

• Dover non-emergency: 508-785-1130

LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES

Colony Care	Wellesley	781-431-1177
Needham Psychotherapy Associates	Needham	781-449-7522
LifeStance Health	Multiple Locations	617-405-5735
Riverside Community Care	Norwood	781-769-8670
Dana Group Associates	Needham	781-449-1143
Advocates Community Counseling	Framingham	508-661-2020
New Generations Consulting	Boston	617-506-9784

 

SUGGESTED PARENTING READING LIST 

Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens and Teens by Laura S Kastner PhD and Jennifer Wyatt

Inside the Teenage Brain: Parenting a Work in Progress by Sheryl Feinstein

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine 

 

 

PARENTING HOTLINE 

Parents Helping Parents of Massachusetts www.parentshelpingparents.org   617-926-5008

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Anxiety

• Self Injury

• Depression

• Signs of Suicide

• Eating Disorders

• Grief

• Loss

• Substance Use and Abuses

  • SBIRT Substance Use Screening and Resources, grades 8 & 10

• LGBTQ+ 

  • Out Metrowest and PFLAG

  • Mental Health and Gender Affirming Care Resource Guide (created by MA Office of the Attorney General)

  • DESE Guidance for Student and Family Support

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

 

Disclaimer:  These suggestions are not endorsements of any of the ideas or products found on this website. We have not read every document or book recommended on these pages and we are unable to keep up with all the changes being made at every site that we have linked. Furthermore, we take no responsibility for the consequences of any action one might take based upon reading the documents referenced. If one believes a child has a need for professional support, we recommend that the help of a licensed health care professional is sought.  

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