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Programs that provide preventive, diagnostic and treatment services in a variety of community and hospital-based settings to help people achieve, maintain and enhance a state of emotional well-being, personal empowerment and the skills to cope with everyday demands without excessive stress or reliance on alcohol or other drugs. Treatment may include emotional support, introspection and problem-solving assistance using a variety of modalities and approaches, and medication, as needed, for individuals who have a substance use disorder involving alcohol and/or other drugs or for people who range from experiencing difficult life transitions or problems in coping with daily living to those with severe, chronic mental illnesses that seriously impact their lives.
HAWC provides free comprehensive and confidential domestic violence programs and services in North Shore communities from Saugus to Rockport. Some of the services offered include a 24-hour hotline, individual advocacy, support groups, legal advocacy, hospital advocacy, children’s services, parent-child trauma recovery program, and community education. It has a shelter that is a communal living situation.
The Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital (Bedord VA) is a long-term care facility specializing in geriatric and psychiatric care. Comprehensive health services include mental health, medicine, psychiatry, physical medicine, dentistry, geriatrics and ambulatory care. It is a Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) that maintains a comprehensive clinical Alzheimer’s Disease Program including a…
Riverbend, formerly known as Lowell House, is a private agency that provides comprehensive outpatient and residential addiction services. It offers a continuum of care that includes prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery for those at risk for specific substance abuse or addictive disorders and/or HIV. Services are offered at various locations to address the life management…
Catholic Charities in Lowell provides basic needs services including emergency food, fuel, rent, and utility assistance. It offers a Grandparents as Parents Program and currently runs a support group in Chelmsford which meets the last Monday of the month from 10am-11:30am. It also provides outpatient counseling services and programs for teen parents .
The Renaissance Club, a program of Eliot Community Human Services, serves adults with mental illnessess in the Greater Lowell area. It is a certified member of the International Center for Clubhouse Development. This program helps those with mental illness reintegrate into society and assists them to find gainful employment.
The staff delivers integrated, cost-efficient primary care. Services provided and/or arranged through the clinic include diabetes education, primary care, mental health, optometry, neurology, podiatry, blood drawing, physical therapy, radiology, nurtrition counseling, women’s health and pharmacy. Veterans have one primary care doctor to coordinate their care but are still eligible for specialty outpatient and inpatient care…
This is a non-profit agency that offers individual and group counseling; information and assistance on benefits, legal issues, disability and compensation claims; career and education services; job training; and job placement. The staff will assist with housing and will distribute food on an as needed basis. Their permanent housing program, The Mansion, serves homeless veterans….
NILP is a non-proft, consumer controlled Independent Living Center providing advocacy and services to people with disabilities in the Greater Merrimack Valley who wish to live as independently as possible in the community. It provides information and referral, peer counseling, independent living skills training, options counseling, Transition to Adulthood for Youth Program, and self-advocacy training….
This is an outpatient multi-specialty clinic devoted to the evaluation and treatment of people who have difficulties in concentration, memory, perception, and language as well as emotional consequences resulting from an injury or disease affecting the nervous system. Specialized programs include memory disorders, brain health in aging, learning disabilities and ADHD clinic, and Asperger’s &…